num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Limits of Interpretation
titlecomplete: The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Art, Language, Philosophy, Linguistics, Semiotics, Theory, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 495
series: Advances in Semiotics
publisher: Indiana University Press