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Eco, Umberto - əmbĕrˈtō ĕcō, 1932–, Italian novelist, essayist, and scholar. His first novel, The Name of the Rose (tr. 1983), is a medieval mystery. A pastiche of detective fiction, medieval philosophy, and moral reflection, it encapsulates his semiotic theory, which describes how signs are produced and interpreted in the world. The novel presents


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    Serendipities: Language & Lunacy » Read Now

    by Umberto Eco, William Weaver. 131 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers...
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    Don't Slip on the Media's Banana Skins, in New Statesman » Read Now

    by Umberto Eco. Multiple pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Dont slip on the medias banana skins. by Umberto Eco Umberto Eco argues that society is ill: the press is full of gossip, and only the rich want privacy I havent had...
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    When the Other Appears on the Scene, in Cross Currents » Read Now

    by Umberto Eco. 7 pgs.

    ...When the other appears on the scene by Umberto Eco This article is derived from an exchange of four...conflicts of faith, charity and prudence must prevail. Umberto Eco is...
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    Pound, Joyce and Eco: Modernism and the "Ideal Genetic Reader," in The Romanic Review » Read Now

    by Jean-Michel Rabate. 16 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...concept owes a lot to Umberto Ecos theoretical elaboration...which took place around Eco under the title of "Interpretation...1993, p. 20-21. (5.) Umberto Eco, with Richard...
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    Culture and Critique: An Introduction to the Critical Discourses of Cultural Studies ("Eco: The Role of the Reader and the Limits of Semiotics" begins on p. 177) » Read Now

    by Jere Paul Surber. 294 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    "From culture to critique, Kant to Gadamer, Marx to Bourdieu, this detailed & brilliantly argued account of the history, theory, & practice of cultural studies is the best introduction to the subject that we have." Eric Gould University of Denver "An excellent pathway through a diverse field.... The...
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    The Parameters of Postmodernism ("Umberto Eco and the Return to the Middle Ages" begins on p. 100) » Read Now

    by Nicholas Zurbrugg. 183 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Recurrence 97 Umberto Eco and the Re-turn to the Middle Ages...which artists and writers such as Umberto Eco, Gunter Grass, Christa Wolf...Silence , 11 . Notes Umberto...
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    Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity ("Umberto Eco" begins on p. 127) » Read Now

    by John Lechte. 252 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information...

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