Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Umberto Eco and the Open Text PDF Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521020879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Umberto Eco and the Open Text PDF Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521020879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Umberto Eco and the Open Text PDF Author: Peter E. Bondanella
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511000607
Category : Semiotics and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

The Open Work

The Open Work PDF Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674639768
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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This 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.

The Role of the Reader

The Role of the Reader PDF Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253203182
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Discusses 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.

Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language PDF Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253203984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement

The Limits of Interpretation

The Limits of Interpretation PDF Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253208699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Presents 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.

Umberto Eco in His Own Words

Umberto Eco in His Own Words PDF Author: Torkild Thellefsen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501507141
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
Hitherto, 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.

The Bomb and the General

The Bomb and the General PDF Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author of T̀he name of the Rose', collage and short story about war and harmony.

Travels in Hyperreality

Travels in Hyperreality PDF Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547545967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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A “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

Reading Eco

Reading Eco PDF Author: Rocco Capozzi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253211163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Examines some of Eco's writings together with secondary sources in order to arrive at a more comprehensive critique of his literary theories and his notions of general semiotics as a cognitive social/cultural practice. Articles on literary semiotics, which comprise the second section, focus primarily on Eco, Peirce, Bakhtin, Greimas, Borges, and Derrida. Part three examines aspects of Eco's fiction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR