| Author/Contributor(s): | Eco, Umberto |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 01/22/1991 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
. . . 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.