Eco, Umberto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...medieval philosophy, and moral reflection, it encapsulates his semiotic theory, which describes how signs are produced and interpreted...Among his important theoretical books are A Theory of Semiotics (1976), The Role of the Reader (1979), and The Limits...