Umberto Eco : philosophy, semiotics, and the work of fiction

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Umberto Eco : philosophy, semiotics, and the work of fiction

Michael Caesar

(Key contemporary thinkers)

Polity Press, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.

Table of Contents

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

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