New Essays on Umberto Eco

Informationen zum Autor Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature! Film Studies and Italian at Indiana University. He has written or edited many books on Italian literature and film! including The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (co-edited with Andrea Ciccarelli! Cambridge! 2003) and Umberto Eco and the Open Text (Cambridge! 1997). Klappentext An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines! as well as to his literary works. Zusammenfassung This collection provides thought-provoking insights into 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! some of which have become best-sellers all over the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Peter Bondanella, Peter (Indiana University) Bondanella, Peter E. Bondanella
• Assisted by: Peter Bondanella (Editor), Peter (Indiana University) Bondanella (Editor), Bondanella Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521852098
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85209-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Italian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form