Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Informationen zum Autor Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was an acclaimed writer, philosopher, medievalist, and semiotician. In addition to dozens of nonfiction books, he authored seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, which has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than fifty million copies worldwide. Klappentext In this exhilarating book, companion and guide Umberto Eco--bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum--explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Eco makes readers his collaborators in the creation of his text and the investigation of fiction's mechanisms. 14 illustrations. Zusammenfassung In this exhilarating book, we accompany Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in with a novelist’s techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.

Product details

• Authors: Umberto Eco, Eco Umberto, Umberto Eco
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.1998
• EAN: 9780674810518
• ISBN: 978-0-674-81051-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form