The Key to "The Name of the Rose"


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Unravels Umberto Eco's classic mystery novel




The Name of the Rose


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In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.




Amanda Rose


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Impetuous English beauty Lady Amanda Rose was determined to escape the loveless marriage that her cruel stepbrother would impose on her. She never imagined that a mysterious rogue from the new world would be the man to change her destiny.




The Wild Rose


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The finale to the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with THE TEA ROSE and continued with THE WINTER ROSE. London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth. As the last golden days of summer give way to the gathering clouds of war, two men and one woman find their lives forever intertwined in a lethal web of forbidden loves, hidden loyalties, and dangerous lies. With myriad twists and turns, thrilling cliffhangers, and fabulous period detail and atmosphere, tHE WILD ROSE is a highly satisfying conclusion to the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with the tea Rose and the Winter Rose - an unforgettable trilogy. Praise for the Rose trilogy:'truly seductive, hard to put down, filled with mystery, secret passions, unique locations, and a most engaging heroine ... captivates from the first page to the last' - Barbara taylor Bradford




Borges and His Successors


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"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.




The Name of the Rose


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We would like to point out that most of the texts included in this work come freely from the Internet and can be found on Wikipedia. Then the question arises: why buy it? The answer is simple. It is a painstaking work of assembly, with a specific search for images (these, for example, you can't find them on Wikipedia) that completes the work in order to make it unique and not repeatable in its structure. In short, a work that, while coming from the work of others, is transformed into a unicum, assuming its own logical form which is to describe the book and the film The Name of the Rose. In addition, the work has been enriched with numerous images that you cannot find on wikipedia. Book content: The Name of the Rose: Plot summary, Characters, Primary characters, At the monastery, Outsiders, Major themes, The aedificium's labyrinth, Title, Allusions To other works, To actual history and geography, Adaptations, Dramatic works, Films, Games, Music, Television, Sources. Author Umberto Eco: Early life and education, Career, Medieval aesthetics and philosophy 1954–1964, Early writings on semiotics and popular culture 1961–1964, Visual communication and semiological guerrilla warfare 1965–1975, Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum 1975–1988, Anthropology of the West and The Island of the Day Before 1988–2000, Later novels and writing 2000–2016, Influences and themes, Honors, Religious views, Personal life and death, In popular culture, Selected bibliography, Novels, Non-fiction books, Anthologies, Books for children. The Name of the Rose (film): Plot, Cast, Production, Reception, Awards. Jean-Jacques Annaud: Early life, Career, Awards and nominations, Awards and distinctions – full list. The Name of the Rose (miniseries): Plot, Cast, Starring, Also starring, Supporting.




T.H. White's The Once and Future King


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Malory's chivalric virtues are rejected in favour of White's own 20th-century values; the love affair of Lancelot and Guenever is interpreted in terms of modern psychology.




Eco's Chaosmos


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While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his spectacular concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what constitutes the peculiarity of his critical and fiction writing is the tension between a typically medieval search for a code and the hermeneutic representative of deconstructive tendencies. This tension between cosmos and chaos, order and disorder, is reflected in the word chaosmos. In this brilliant assessment of the philosophical basis of Eco's critical and fictional writing, Cristina Farronato explores the other distinctive aspect of Eco's thought - the struggle for a composition of opposites, the outcome deriving from his ability to elicit similar contrasts from the past and re-play them in modern terms. Focusing principally on how Eco's scholarly background influenced his study of semiotics, Farronato analyzes The Name of the Rose in relation to William of Ockham's epistemology, C.S. Peirce's work on abduction, and Wittgenstein's theory of language. She discusses Foucault's Pendulum as an explicit comment on the modern debate on interpretation through a direct reference to Early Modern hermetic thought, correlates The Island of the Day Before as a postmodern mixture of science and superstition, and reviews Baudolino as an historical/fantastic novel that once again situates the Middle Ages in a postmodern context. Eco's Chaosmos demonstrates how Eco's use of semiotic theory is important for an understanding of the postmodern aspects of today's literature and culture.




Constructing Postmodernism


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Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.