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Umberto Eco's Alternative

Author : Norma Bouchard
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Umberto Eco's Alternative written by Norma Bouchard and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 13 contributions reflecting the wide range of Eco's interests and influence, arranged in sections on semiotics, philosophy of language, and theory of interpretation; writing (post)modern fictions--the ambivalent status of knowledge; popular culture--ideology, consumption, resistance. Some examples of specific topics: individual and communal encyclopedias; the limitations of openness--Foucault's pendulum and Kabbalah; popularizing culture in Eco's Superfictions; and cinema and the question of reception. An afterword by Eco himself discusses how and why he writes. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Philosophy of Umberto Eco

Author : Sara G. Beardsworth
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812699653
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Umberto Eco written by Sara G. Beardsworth and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Umberto Eco stands out in the Library of Living Philosophers series as the volume on the most interdisciplinary scholar hitherto and probably the most widely translated. The Italian philosopher’s name and works are well known in the humanities, both his philosophical and literary works being translated into fifteen or more languages. Eco is a founder of modern semiotics and widely known for his work in the philosophy of language and aesthetics. He is also a leading figure in the emergence of postmodern literature, and is associated with cultural and mass communication studies. His writings cover topics such as advertising, television, and children’s literature as well as philosophical questions bearing on truth, reality, cognition, language, and literature. The critical essays in this volume cover the full range of this output. This book has wide appeal not only because of its interdisciplinary nature but also because of Eco’s famous “high and low” approach, which is deeply scholarly in conception and very accessible in outcome. The short essay “Why Philosophy?” included in the volume is exemplary in this regard: it will appeal to scholars for its wit and to high school students for its intelligibility.

New Essays on Umberto Eco

Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521852099
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book New Essays on Umberto Eco written by Peter Bondanella and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his literary works.

Umberto Eco in His Own Words

Author : Torkild Thellefsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501507028
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Umberto Eco in His Own Words written by Torkild Thellefsen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Umberto Eco in His Own Words

Author : Torkild Thellefsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501507141
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Umberto Eco in His Own Words written by Torkild Thellefsen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture

Author : Douglass Merrell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319547895
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture written by Douglass Merrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

A Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410353575
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Eco's Chaosmos

Author : Cristina Farronato
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085863
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Eco's Chaosmos written by Cristina Farronato and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his spectacular concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what constitutes the peculiarity of his critical and fiction writing is the tension between a typically medieval search for a code and the hermeneutic representative of deconstructive tendencies. This tension between cosmos and chaos, order and disorder, is reflected in the word chaosmos. In this brilliant assessment of the philosophical basis of Eco's critical and fictional writing, Cristina Farronato explores the other distinctive aspect of Eco's thought - the struggle for a composition of opposites, the outcome deriving from his ability to elicit similar contrasts from the past and re-play them in modern terms. Focusing principally on how Eco's scholarly background influenced his study of semiotics, Farronato analyzes The Name of the Rose in relation to William of Ockham's epistemology, C.S. Peirce's work on abduction, and Wittgenstein's theory of language. She discusses Foucault's Pendulum as an explicit comment on the modern debate on interpretation through a direct reference to Early Modern hermetic thought, correlates The Island of the Day Before as a postmodern mixture of science and superstition, and reviews Baudolino as an historical/fantastic novel that once again situates the Middle Ages in a postmodern context. Eco's Chaosmos demonstrates how Eco's use of semiotic theory is important for an understanding of the postmodern aspects of today's literature and culture.

Umberto Eco

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Umberto Eco written by Mike Gane and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Infinity of Lists

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781906694890
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Infinity of Lists written by Umberto Eco and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. Companion to the author's History of beauty and On ugliness.

Consuming Pleasures

Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206495
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Pleasures written by Daniel Horowitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious or analytical discussion, let alone appreciation, of popular culture, which they viewed as morally questionable. Beginning in the 1950s, however, new perspectives emerged outside and within the United States that challenged this dominant thinking. Consuming Pleasures reveals how a group of writers shifted attention from condemnation to critical appreciation, critiqued cultural hierarchies and moralistic approaches, and explored the symbolic processes by which individuals and groups communicate. Historian Daniel Horowitz traces the emergence of these new perspectives through a series of intellectual biographies. With writers and readers from the United States at the center, the story begins in Western Europe in the early 1950s and ends in the early 1970s, when American intellectuals increasingly appreciated the rich inventiveness of popular culture. Drawing on sources both familiar and newly discovered, this transnational intellectual history plays familiar works off each other in fresh ways. Among those whose work is featured are Jürgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Walter Benjamin, C. L. R. James, David Riesman and Marshall McLuhan, Richard Hoggart, members of London's Independent Group, Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel, Tom Wolfe, Herbert Gans, Susan Sontag, Reyner Banham, and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Reading Eco

Author : Rocco Capozzi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211163
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Reading Eco written by Rocco Capozzi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Postmodern Artistry in Medievalist Fiction

Author : Earl R. Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633452
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Artistry in Medievalist Fiction written by Earl R. Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on modern-day fiction set in the Middle Ages or that incorporates medieval elements, this study examines storytelling components and rhetorical tropes in more than 60 works in five languages by more than 40 authors. Medievalist fiction got its "postmodern" start with such authors as Calvino, Fuentes, Carpentier and Eco. Its momentum increased since the 1990s with writers whose work has received less critical attention, like Laura Esquivel, Tariq Ali, Matthew Pearl, Matilde Asensi, Ildefonso Falcones, Andrew Davison, Bernard Cornwell, Donnal Woolfolk Cross, Ariana Franklin, Nicole Griffith, Levi Grossman, Conn Iggulden, Edward Rutherfurd, Javier Sierra, Alan Moore and Brenda Vantrease. The author explores a wide range of "medievalizing" tropes, discusses the negative responses of postmodernism and posits four "hard problems" in medievalist fiction.

Wise King, Royal Fool

Author : Johnny Miles
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567318028
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Wise King, Royal Fool written by Johnny Miles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on a reading of Proverbs 1-9 as satire and argues that it alludes to two points of critique against Solomon: his political policy of socio-economic injustice and his numerous sexual (in)discretions. That Solomon abandoned his divinely proscribed duty only evinces his lack of "fear of Yahweh". First, Solomon demonstrates his lack of discernment by an inability to rule with righteousness, justice and equity because of administrative policies that bled the innocent dry of their resources for his own self-aggrandizement. Second, Solomon's sexual behavior reflects his need of Wisdom as the personification of eroticism. The absence of the "fear of Yahweh" in Solomon prompts the poet's reproof in Proverbs 1-9 that he should resume his proper role of Torah meditation. How the "son" responds to the decision posed to him remains decidedly open-ended, since satire generally offers no denouement to its plot. Nevertheless, the signs of this satiric poetry intimate the wise king as a royal fool.

Alternate History

Author : Kathleen Singles
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110272474
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Alternate History written by Kathleen Singles and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J

Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1579583903
Total Pages : 2258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J written by Gaetana Marrone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 2258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Old English Medievalism

Author : Rachel A. Fletcher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846500
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Old English Medievalism written by Rachel A. Fletcher and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.