Umberto Eco and the Open Text
Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture
Peter Bondanella
ISBN: | 9780511581755 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 23 October, 2009 |
Format: | Online resource |
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Umberto Eco and the Open Text
Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture
Peter Bondanella
Umberto Eco is Italy's most famous living intellectual, known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco and the Open Text is the first comprehensive study in English of Eco's work. In clear and accessible language, Peter Bondanella considers not only Eco's most famous texts, but also many occasional essays not yet translated into English. Tracing Eco's intellectual development from early studies in medieval aesthetics to seminal works on popular culture, postmodern fiction, and semiotic theory, he shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella cites all texts in English, and provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco.
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