Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture

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Umberto Eco is known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novel The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Peter Bondanella here offers the first comprehensive study in English of Eco's works. In clear and accessible language, he traces the development of Eco's interests, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella also provides a ...
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Overview

Umberto Eco is known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novel The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Peter Bondanella here offers the first comprehensive study in English of Eco's works. In clear and accessible language, he traces the development of Eco's interests, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella also provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco, arguably the most famous Italian writer since Dante.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521020879
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/2005
  • Pages: 236
  • Product dimensions: 5.43 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.55 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Umberto Eco's intellectual origins: medieval aesthetics, publishing, and mass media 1
2 The Open Work, Misreadings, and modernist aesthetics 19
3 Cultural theory and popular culture: from structuralism to semiotics 41
4 From semiotics to narrative theory in a decade of radical social change 67
5 "To make truth laugh": postmodern theory and practice in The Name of the Rose 93
6 Interpretation, overinterpretation, paranoid interpretation, and Foucault's Pendulum 126
7 Inferential strolls and narrative shipwrecks: Six Walks and The Island of the Day Before 154
8 Conclusion 192
Bibliography 200
Index 213
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