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New Essays on Umberto Eco

Editor: Peter Bondanella, Indiana University

Peter Bondanella, Norma Bouchard, Manuela Gieri, Cinzia Bianchi, Guy Raffa, Cristina Farronato, Theresa Coletti, Patrizia Violi, Rocco Capozzi, Michael Caesar, Torunn Haaland

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Date Published: July 2009
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521852098

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There is a wealth of critical commentary on Umberto Eco in scholarly books and articles; this collection provides thought-provoking insights into topics that have attracted a great deal of attention in the past without repeating many of the arguments found in earlier publications on Eco. Representing the most active scholars writing on Eco from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the international panel of authors provides sophisticated engagement with Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines (semiotics, popular culture, linguistics, aesthetics, philosophy, medieval studies) as well as his literary production of five important novels. From the impact of the detective genre on Eco's literary work to his place as a major medievalist, New Essays on Umberto Eco covers a variety of subjects of interest not only to a wide audience interested in Eco's fiction, but also to the serious student delving into Eco's more esoteric writings.
- An accessible guide to the very wide range of scholarly topics surrounding Umberto Eco, from pop culture to semiotics and aesthetics
- Includes an invaluable outline of Eco's works and how they have been translated
- Presents all Italian texts in English translation, including works not actually in print in English
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Product details
- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521852098
- length: 202 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 158 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Editor's introduction
1. Eco and popular culture Norma Bouchard
2. Umberto Eco's semiotic theory Manuela Gieri and Cinzia Bianchi
3. Eco's scientific imagination Guy Raffa
4. From the rose to the flame: Eco's theory and fiction between the Middle Ages and Postmodernity Cristina Farronato
5. Umberto Eco's Middle Ages, and the historical novel Theresa Coletti
6. Umberto Eco and the tradition of the detective story Peter Bondanella
7. Eco's late semiotic thought: 'The Subject is in the Adverbs' Patrizia Violi
8. Double coding memorabilia in The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Rocco Capozzi
9. Eco and Joyce Michael Caesar
10. Eco on film Torunn Haaland.
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Editor
Peter Bondanella, Indiana University
Contributors
Peter Bondanella, Norma Bouchard, Manuela Gieri, Cinzia Bianchi, Guy Raffa, Cristina Farronato, Theresa Coletti, Patrizia Violi, Rocco Capozzi, Michael Caesar, Torunn Haaland