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Author | : Peter Bondanella |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2005-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521020879 |
The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780674639768 |
This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780253203182 |
Discusses the differences between "open" and "closed" texts, or, texts that actively involve the reader and texts that evoke a limited, predetermined response from the reader. -- Back cover.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253208699 |
Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and the basis of communication. -- Back cover.
Author | : Torkild Thellefsen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501507141 |
Hitherto, there has been no book that attempted to sum up the breadth of Umberto Eco’s work and it importance for the study of semiotics, communication and cognition. There have been anthologies and overviews of Eco’s work within Eco Studies; sometimes, works in semiotics have used aspects of Eco’s work. Yet, thus far, there has been no overview of the work of Eco in the breadth of semiotics. This volume is a contribution to both semiotics and Eco studies. The 40 scholars who participate in the volume come from a variety of disciplines but have all chosen to work with a favorite quotation from Eco that they find particularly illustrative of the issues that his work raises. Some of the scholars have worked exegetically placing the quotation within a tradition, others have determined the (epistemic) value of the quotation and offered a critique, while still others have seen the quotation as a starting point for conceptual developments within a field of application. However, each article within this volume points toward the relevance of Eco -- for contemporary studies concerning semiotics, communication and cognition.
Author | : Peter Bondanella |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2009-07-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521852099 |
An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his literary works.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1998-07-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674503953 |
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader—his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie, for Little Red Riding Hood, Agatha Christie, Agent 007 and all his ladies. We see, hear, and feel Umberto Eco, the passionate reader who has gotten lost over and over again in the woods, loved it, and come back to tell the tale, The Tale of Tales. Eco tells us how fiction works, and he also tells us why we love fiction so much. This is no deconstructionist ripping the veil off the Wizard of Oz to reveal his paltry tricks, but the Wizard of Art himself inviting us to join him up at his level, the Sorcerer inviting us to become his apprentice.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1986-07-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780253203984 |
"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547577613 |
The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man? “Choreographed by a truth that is itself so strange a novelist need hardly expand on it to produce a wondrous tale... Eco is to be applauded for bringing this stranger-than-fiction truth vividly to life.” —The New York Times
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0547545967 |
A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: “In these pages, I try to interpret and to help others interpret some ‘signs.’ These signs are not only words, or images; they can also be forms of social behavior, political acts, artificial landscapes.” From Disneyland to holography and wax museums, Eco explores America’s obsession with artificial reality, suggesting that the craft of forgery has in certain cases exceeded reality itself. He examines Western culture’s enduring fascination with the middle ages, proposing that our most pressing modern concerns began in that time. He delves into an array of topics, from sports to media to what he calls the crisis of reason. Throughout these travels—both physical and mental—Eco displays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Translated by William Weaver