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The Limits of Interpretation
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9780253208699
Overview
Overview
Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes.... Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and possibly revolutionary book." --George J. Leonard, San Francisco Review of Books
... a wealth of insight and instruction." --J. O. Tate, National Review
If anyone can make semiotics] clear, it's Professor Eco.... Professor Eco's theme deserves respect; language should be used to communicate more easily without literary border guards." --The New York Times
The limits of interpretation mark the limits of our world. Umberto Eco's new collection of essays touches deftly on such matters." --Times Literary Supplement
It is a careful and challenging collection of essays that broach topics rarely considered with any seriousness by literary theorists." --Diacritics
Umberto Eco focuses here on what he once called "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation"--that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, thereby destroying meaning and the basis for communication.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- ISBN: 9780253208699
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.22 x 0.89
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 1991