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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 Foucaults Pendulum. Peter Bondanella offers the first comprehensive study in English of Ecos works. In clear and accessible language, he traces the development of Ecos interests, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Ecos 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 is Italy's most famous living intellectual, known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco and the Open Text is the first comprehensive study in English of Eco's work. In clear and accessible language, Peter Bondanella considers not only Eco's most famous texts, but also many occasional essays not yet translated into English. Tracing Eco's intellectual development from early studies in medieval aesthetics to seminal works on popular culture, postmodern fiction, and semiotic theory, he shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella cites all texts in English, and provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco.
title
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Umberto Eco and the Open Text : Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture
author
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Bondanella, Peter E.
publisher
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Cambridge University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0521442001
print isbn13
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9780521442008
ebook isbn13
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9780511000607
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English
subject
Eco, Umberto--Criticism and interpretation, Semiotics and literature.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PQ4865.C6Z58 1997eb
ddc
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853/.914
subject
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Eco, Umberto--Criticism and interpretation, Semiotics and literature.
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Umberto Eco and the open text
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Umberto Eco and the open text
Semiotics, fiction, popular culture
Peter Bondanella Indiana University
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia
Cambridge University Press 1997
First published 1997
Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data
Bondanella, Peter E., 1943 Umberto Eco and the open text: semiotics, fiction, popular culture / Peter Bondanella. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0 521 44200 1 (hardback) 1. Eco, UmbertoCriticism and interpretation. 2. Semiotics and literature. 1. Title. PQ4865.C6Z58 1997 853'.914-dc20 96-3099 CIP ISBN 0 521 44200 I hardback
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For Lynn Luciano In Memoriam
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Contents
Preface
xi
One
Umberto Ecos intellectual origins: medieval aesthetics, publishing, and mass media
1
Two
The Open Work, Misreadings, and modernist aesthetics
19
Three
Cultural theory and popular culture: from structuralism to semiotics
41
Four
From semiotics to narrative theory in a decade of radical social change
67
Five
To make truth laugh: postmodern theory and pracitice in The Name of the Rose
93
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Six
Interpretation, overinterpretation, paranoid interpretation, and Foucault's Pendulum
126
Seven
Inferential strolls and narrative shipwrecks: Six Walks and The Island of the Day Before
154
Eight
Conclusion
192
Bibliography
200
Index
213
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Preface
Umberto Eco is probably Italy's most famous living intellectual figure. A significant portion of his critical works has been translated into English, not to mention countless other languages, even though that portion is but a small fraction of the mass of work he has produced in a wide variety of fields. While it is his literary and cultural theory, particularly associated with semiotics (a field to which he has made major contributions since the mid-1960s) which has established Eco's reputation as a major European intellectual, capable of comparison to such thinkers as Foucault, Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, or Barthes, Eco has a second and even broader international audience created by the extraordinary success of three widely read novels: The Name ofthe Rose (made into a major motion picture starring Sean Connery); Foucault's Pendulum; and The Island of the Day Before.
Given Eco's fame, it is surprising that numerous English-language books on himand his works are not already available. Dozens of books each year appear in English focusing upon other major European literary or cultural theorists, but readers searching for reliable information about Eco's intellectual development must be satisfied to peruse specialized scholarly journals or to glance through the all-too-brief critical introductions or translators' comments included in several English translations of his major works. The fact that French is the foreign language and culture most familiar to English or
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