About the Editor:
Anthony Julian Tamburri, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, is chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University. His essays on Italian and Italian/American studies have appeared in journals such as L'Asino d'oro, Italica, Differentia, The American Journal of Semiotics, and Segni e comprensione. His recent books include: A Semiotics of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognitiono of the Italian/American Writer; A Reconsideration of Aldo Palazzeschi's Poetry (1905-1974): Revisiting the "Saltimbanco", and Italian/American Short Films & Music Videos: A Semiotic Reading

Semiotics of Re-Reading examines the necessity of reading retrospectively. In this manner, the reader who comes along after the composition of an author's opus may better understand the author's earlier works afer reading a later one. In contrast to a reader contemporary to the text, who does not have the opportunity of "hindsight," this special reader (retro-lector) draws on information gathered from a later text in order to understand more fully a previously composed text. In the end, s/he comes away with an interpretation both different and more complete than that which the contemporary reader would acquire after a strict chronologial reading.