Book Description
The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.
Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521020879
The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : 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
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1979
Category : 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 : Torkild Thellefsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : 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 : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 1986-07-22
Category : 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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1992-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521425544
This book brings together some of the most distinguished figures currently at work in philosophy, literary theory and criticism to debate the limits of interpretation.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : 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 : Umberto Eco
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : 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
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : 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
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN :
Author of T̀he name of the Rose', collage and short story about war and harmony.