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Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521020879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.
Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780674639768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780253203182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses 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
Published: 2017-08-21
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1501507141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHitherto, 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: HMH
Published: 2014-06-24
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0547545967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “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: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780253208699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents 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: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-03-05
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780521425544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Harvill Secker
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor of T̀he name of the Rose', collage and short story about war and harmony.
Author: Douglass Merrell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-06-05
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 3319547895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-02
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0521852099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his literary works.
