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Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind.
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EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
Umberto Eco is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular journalist, and linguist. This work provides an introduction to his writing and thought.
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Umberto Eco is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular journalist, and linguist. This work provides an introduction to his writing and thought.
Publisher:
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Reading Eco -- 1.1 Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language -- 1.2 Innovation and Repetition: Between Modern and Post-Modern Aesthetics -- 1.3 Two...
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Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Reading Eco -- 1.1 Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language -- 1.2 Innovation and Repetition: Between Modern and Post-Modern Aesthetics -- 1.3 Two Problems in Textual Interpretation -- 1.4 Universe Of The Mind. A Semiotic Theory Of Culture -- 1.5 An Author and his Interpreters -- Part II Readings on Eco. A Pretext to Literary Semiotics and Interpretation -- 2.1 The Open Work in Theory and Practice -- 2.2 Looking back on A Theory of Semiotics: One Small Step for Philosophy, One Giant Leap for the Doctrine of Signs -- 2.3 The Themata of Eco's Semiotics of Literature -- 2.4 Toward Interpretation Semiotics -- 2.5 Openness, Eco, and the End of Another Millennium -- 2.6 Eco, Peirce, and the Necessity of Interpretation -- 2.7 Semiotics and Deconstruction -- 2.8 The Interpretant in Literary Semiotics -- 2.9 On Truth and Lying: Umberto Eco and Algirdas Julien Greimas -- 2.10 Eco and Dramatology -- 2.11 Esoteric Conspiracies and the Interpretative Strategy -- 2.12 Interpretation and Overinterpretation: The Rights of Texts, Readers and Implied Authors -- Part III Reading Eco's Possible Worlds -- The Name of the Rose -- 3.1 Gaudy Rose: Eco and Narcissism -- 3.2 The Mirrored World: Form and Ideology in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose -- 3.3 Give Me Another Horse -- Foucault's Pendulum -- 3.4 Interpretation, Overinterpretation, Paranoid Interpretation and Foucault's Pendulum -- 3.5 Bellydancing: Gender, Silence, and the Wornen of Foucault's Pendulum -- 3.6 Irony-clad Foucault -- 3.7 The Swing of the 'Pendulum': Eco's Novels -- The Island of the Day Before -- 3.8 "Whose 'Excess of Wonder' Is It Anyway?: Reading Umberto Eco's Tangle of Hermetic and Pragmatic Semiosis in The Island of the Day Before" -- 3.9 Dove' is the Dove? 3.10 Intertextuality, Metaphors, and Metafiction as Cognitive Strategies in The Island of the Day Before -- Part IV References -- 4.1 Notes -- 4.2 Integrated Bibliography -- 4.3 Contributors
