Interpretation and Overinterpretation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Umberto Eco, Richard Rorty
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Literature, Reading, Lectures or lecturing, Gnosticism, Empiricism
Interpretation and Overinterpretation is based on the 1990 Tanner Lectures delivered by novelist and literary theorist Umberto Eco at Clare Hall, Cambridge. Eco was joined by respondents Christine Brooke-Rose, a novelist-critic; deconstructionist Jonathan Culler; and pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty. Eco is professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the best-selling author of Il nome della rosa (1980; The Name of the Rose, 1983) and Il pendolo di Foucault (1988; Foucault’s Pendulum, 1989). Interpretation and Overinterpretation...
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