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The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics) Book

In this new collection of essays, Eco focuses on what he calls the limits of interpretation, or, as he once noted in another context, ""the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation"". Readers of Eco's other work will find here all the ingredients with which they have become familiar--vast learning, an agile and exciting mind, good humor and a brilliance of insight.Read More

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    "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.

  • 0253208696
  • 9780253208699
  • Umberto Eco
  • 1 March 1994
  • Indiana University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
  • New edition
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