Umberto Eco and the Open Text Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture |
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| Author:
| Bondanella, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-44200-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1997 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $90.99 |
Book Description:
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This is the first comprehensive study in English of the works of Umberto Eco, Italy's most famous living intellectual and author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Peter Bondanella traces the developing interests of Eco, arguably the most famous Italian writer since Dante, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories.
This is the first comprehensive study in English of the works of Umberto Eco, Italy's most famous living intellectual and author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Peter Bondanella traces the developing interests of Eco, arguably the most famous Italian writer since Dante, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories.