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Umberto Eco and the open text : semiotics, fiction, popular culture /

Umberto Eco is Italy's most famous living intellectual, known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco and the Open Text is t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Umberto Eco's intellectual origins: medieval aesthetics, publishing, and mass media
  • 2. The Open Work, Misreadings, and modernist aesthetics
  • 3. Cultural theory and popular culture: from structuralism to semiotics
  • 4. From semiotics to narrative theory in a decade of radical social change
  • 5. "To make truth laugh": postmodern theory and practice in The Name of the Rose
  • 6. Interpretation, overinterpretation, paranoid interpretation, and Foucault's Pendulum
  • 7. Inferential strolls and narrative shipwrecks: Six Walks and The Island of the Day Before
  • 8. Conclusion.