ABSTRACT
This chapter follows the work of Umberto Eco, who contends that meaning and interpretation emerge in the intersection of text, author, and reader. This perspective counters assumptions that confine the authority of meaning to an author, a reader, or a text. Eco offers a perspective of interpretation that is implicitly dialogic. This approach offers a framework that opens a space for editing within this practice of dialogue. Eco’s perspective of interpretation leads this chapter to dialogic notions of the between as a locus where meaning emerges. The chapter contends that Eco offers dialogic insights through which to understand editing and interpretation as a meeting of text, author, and reader.
