Umberto Eco

Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

Michael Caesar (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

1999
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0849-5 (ISBN)

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Focuses on the work of Umberto Eco - one of Europe's best-known writers and intellectuals. This title covers the range of Eco's work, from his theoretical writings on semiotics to his best-selling novels. It assesses the influence of Eco's work on contemporary culture.

Michael Caesar is Professor of Italian and Head of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Acknowledgement ix

Note on References x

Introduction 1

1 Form, Interpretation and the Open Work 6

On form and interpretation: from Croce to Pareyson 6

Art and rationality 10

The appearance of Opera aperta 15

The poetics of the open work 18

Beyond ‘openness’ 23

2 A Critical View of Culture: Mass Communications, Politics and the Avant-garde 28

The role of the avant-garde 29

Mass communications and theories of mass culture 37

Television and semiotic guerrilla war 43

Openness and structure 47

3 Introducing the Study of Signs 54

Signals and sense 55

Ambiguity, self-reflexivity and the aesthetic message 64

The critique of iconism 67

Some provisional conclusions on the aesthetic message 69

4 A Theory of Semiotics 76

From La struttura assente to A Theory of Semiotics 76

Communication, code and signification 81

Sign and sign-function 83

Sign production, iconism and the aesthetic message (again) 90

5 Semiotics Bounded and Unbound 100

The boundaries of semiotics 102

The dynamics of semiosis 111

6 Theory and Fiction 120

Readers and worlds Texts 120

7 Secrets, Paranoia and Critical Reading 145

8 Kant, the Platypus and the Horizon 162

Notes 171

Select Bibliography 184

Index 193

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.5.1999
Reihe/Serie	Key Contemporary Thinkers
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7456-0849-3 / 0745608493
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-0849-5 / 9780745608495
Zustand	Neuware