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Eco's Chaosmos : From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity /

"While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what distinguishes his critical and fictional writing is the tens...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Farronato, Cristina
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • From cosmos to chaosmos: Eco and Joyce
  • Semiotics as a solution: from a theory of aesthetics to the study of culture
  • The aesthetics of reception and the reflection on the reader: from the labyrinth to the Southern Seas
  • Intertextuality: the Middle Ages, postmodernity, and the use of citation
  • A theory of medieval laughter: the comic, humour, and wit
  • The whodunit and Eco's postmodern fiction
  • Baudolino and the language of monsters
  • Conclusion.