The Limits of Interpretation

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by Umberto Eco

Indiana University Press

Due/Published February 1994, 304 pages, paper

ISBN 0253208696

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.

At the time, Diacritics said: "It is a careful and challenging collection of essays that broach topics rarely considered with any seriousness by literary theorists." Well, ok then.