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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farronato, Cristina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Eco, Umberto.
Eco, Umberto > Critique et interpretation.
Eco, Umberto > Criticism and interpretation.
Filosofische aspecten.
Italiaans.
Letterkunde.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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