Umberto Eco

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.

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20th Century Philosophy, Comparative & World Literature, Literary Criticism & History, Literature, Literaturkritik u. -geschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie, Philosophie des 20. Jhd., Philosophy, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft u. Weltliteratur

Acknowledgement ixNote on References xIntroduction 11 Form, Interpretation and the Open Work 6On form and interpretation: from Croce to Pareyson 6Art and rationality 10The appearance of Opera aperta 15The poetics of the open work 18Beyond 'openness' 232 A Critical View of Culture: Mass Communications, Politics and the Avant-garde 28The role of the avant-garde 29Mass communications and theories of mass culture 37Television and semiotic guerrilla war 43Openness and structure 473 Introducing the Study of Signs 54Signals and sense 55Ambiguity, self-reflexivity and the aesthetic message 64The critique of iconism 67Some provisional conclusions on the aesthetic message 694 A Theory of Semiotics 76From La struttura assente to A Theory of Semiotics 76Communication, code and signification 81Sign and sign-function 83Sign production, iconism and the aesthetic message (again) 905 Semiotics Bounded and Unbound 100The boundaries of semiotics 102The dynamics of semiosis 1116 Theory and Fiction 120Readers and worlds Texts 1207 Secrets, Paranoia and Critical Reading 1458 Kant, the Platypus and the Horizon 162Notes 171Select Bibliography 184Index 193