Not "anything goes" : Umberto Eco s theory of interpretative cooperation and the limits of interpretation / Nem tudo vale : teoria da cooperação interpretativa e dos limites da interpretação segundo Umberto Eco

AUTOR(ES)

Antonio Barros de Brito Junior

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

The thesis deals with the theory of interpretative co-operation and the theory of the limits of interpretation within Umberto Eco s theoretical works. Inside its four chapters the thesis aims to cover Eco s writings, by means of the approach of his theory of the codes (from the 1960 s and the 1970 s) and his theory of sign production, delineated in the books entitled A Theory of semiotics (1975) and Kant and the platypus (1997). First of all, our purpose is to study the conflict between the idea of the indeterminacy of the interpretation affirmed earlier in Eco s pre-semiotic works and the idea according with the interpretation of the literary text stumble upon specific limits imposed by the code and by what Eco calls "behavior fundamental unity". Secondly, we try to show what is the place Eco occupies within the debate about the limits of interpretation, in the realm of the Theory of Literature; at this point, we give special attention to the comparison between Eco s thoughts and the ideas of the thinkers linked to deconstruction trend. After the comparison, we note that Eco turns himself to the theory of sign production in order to make his own beliefs stronger. Therefore, in the last two chapters, we dedicate ourselves, on one hand, to present Eco s reflections on the perception and the conceptualization of the world and the intersubjectivity, and then, on the other hand, we try to render problematic, from the point of view of aesthetics, the range of Eco s ideas on what concerns the literary interpretation. Hence, we analyze the concept of abduction, stressing the role it plays in the merging of both of Eco s semiotic approaches - semiotics as theory of the culture and semiotics as sign production - and, above all, the weight it has in Eco s writings when it comes to the formulation of the thesis according to which there are limits for the literary interpretation. We finish the thesis asserting that Eco s theory of the interpretative co-operation and theory of the limits of the interpretation put in jeopardy the aesthetic features of literary communication

ASSUNTO(S)

umberto semiotica literature eco interpretation semiotics interpretação literatura - historia e critica - teoria etc

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