Peter Bondanella

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780521442008
• ISBN-10: 0521442001
• Artikelnr.: 21585961

Inhaltsangabe

1. Umberto Eco's intellectual origins: medieval aesthetics, publishing and mass media
2. The open work, misreadings, and modernist aesthetics
3. Cultural theory and popular culture: from structuralism to semiotics
4. From semiotics to narrative theory in a decade of radical social change
5. 'To make truth laugh': postmodern theory and practice in The Name of the Rose
6. Interpretation, overinterpretation, paranoid interpretation, and Foucault's Pendulum
7. Inferential strolls and narrative shipwrecks: Six Walks and The Island of the Day Before
8. Conclusion
Bibliography.