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The limits of interpretation /

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Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and the basis of communication. -- Back cover.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eco, Umberto (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1994]
Edition:1st Midland book ed.
Series:Advances in semiotics.
Subjects:
Criticism.
Semiotics and literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Critique.
Sémiotique et littérature.
Esthétique de la réception.
Literature.
Interpretation
Literatur
Semiotik
Hermeneutik
Advances in semiotics
Reader-response criticism
Semiotics and literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Two models of interpretation
  • Unlimited semiosis and drift: pragmaticism vs. "pragmatism" == Intentio Lectoris: the state of the art
  • Small worlds
  • Interpreting serials
  • Interpreting drama
  • Interpreting animals
  • A portrait of the elder as a young pliny
  • Joyce, semiosis, and semiotics
  • Abduction in Uqbar
  • Pirandello Ridens
  • Fakes and forgeries
  • Semantics, pragmatics, and text semiotics
  • Presuppositions
  • On truth: a fiction.