Michael Caesar

Umberto Eco (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. Das E-Book Umberto Eco wird angeboten von John Wiley & Sons und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: 20th Century Philosophy, Comparative & World Literature, Literary Criticism & History, Literature, Literaturkritik u. -geschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie, Philosophie des 20. Jhd., Philosophy, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft u. Weltliteratur

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745665948
• Artikelnr.: 39047589

Autorenporträt

Michael Caesar is Professor of Italian and Head of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

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