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Umberto Eco - Michael Caesar

Umberto Eco

Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

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Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
1999
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0850-1 (ISBN)
CHF 29,65 inkl. MwSt
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 152 x 230 mm
Gewicht 331 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-7456-0850-7 / 0745608507
ISBN-13 978-0-7456-0850-1 / 9780745608501
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