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Umberto Eco and the Open Text Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture


Free Download Peter Bondanella, "Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture"
English | 1997 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0521442001, 0521020875 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Umberto Eco is known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Peter Bondanella offers the first comprehensive study in English of Eco’s works. In clear and accessible language, he traces the development of Eco’s interests, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Eco’s own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella also provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco, arguably the most famous Italian writer since Dante.

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Umberto Eco’s alternative The politics of culture and the ambiguities of interpretation


Free Download Umberto Eco’s alternative : The politics of culture and the ambiguities of interpretation By Norma Bouchard-Veronica Pravadelli(eds)
1999 | 317 Pages | ISBN: 0820437891 | PDF | 107 MB
This anthology examines Eco’s work within the context of the current debate surrounding the interpretation and production of cultural messages. The contributors include Peter Carravetta, Patrizia Violi, Davide Del Bello, Remo Ceserani, Walter Stephens, Rocco Capozzi, Linda Hutcheon, Peter Bondanella, Christine Evans, Maurizio Rebaudengo, Diane Elam, Francesco Casetti, and Barbara Grespi.

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