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Illuminating Eco : On the Boundaries of Interpretation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Warwick Studies in the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351928960
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Illuminating EcoDDC classification:
  • 853/.914
LOC classification:
  • PQ4865.C6 .I458 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Interpretation and Uncertainty -- PART 1: READERS OF OPEN (PARA)TEXTS -- 2 Maps and Territories: Eco Crossing the Boundary -- 3 Aspects of the Labyrinth in The Name of the Rose: Chaos and Order in the Abbey Library -- 4 Eco and the Reading of the Second Level -- 5 Eco's Discovery of America or Travelling the Postmodern Way -- PART 2: OVERINTERPRETING THE SIGNS -- 6 Economic Interpretation -- 7 Eco's Hermeneutics and Translation Studies: Between 'Manipulation' and 'Overinterpretation' -- 8 The Serendipities of Semiotics, or Knowledge as a 'Theory of Next Thursday' -- PART 3: FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- 9 Reconsidering the Implications of the 'Pre-Semiotic' Writings in Umberto Eco -- 10 Traces of Analytic Philosophy: Meaning, Reference and Style in Kant and the Platypus -- 11 Eco on the Move: Notes for a Re-Reading -- PART 4: A CONTRIBUTION BY UMBERTO ECO -- 12 How I Write -- 13 A Response by Eco -- Select Bibliography of Works by Umberto Eco -- Index.
Summary: Illuminating Eco provides an opportunity to view the interaction between Umberto Eco's fiction and his theoretical texts, and suggests future avenues of research. Covering the range of British scholarship on Eco's literary and theoretical work, essays by scholars such as Michael Caesar and David Robey consider Eco's writing through the reading strategies suggested by his texts, in light of alternative critical approaches, and by challenging previous theoretical interpretations of Eco's work. Among the contributions are Eco's written response to these essays and a translation of the final chapter from his Sulla letteratura, in which Eco discusses the conception and execution of his narrative works. Its interdisciplinary nature makes this collection accessible to a wide readership in order to situate Eco's work in the greater literary and critical sphere.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Interpretation and Uncertainty -- PART 1: READERS OF OPEN (PARA)TEXTS -- 2 Maps and Territories: Eco Crossing the Boundary -- 3 Aspects of the Labyrinth in The Name of the Rose: Chaos and Order in the Abbey Library -- 4 Eco and the Reading of the Second Level -- 5 Eco's Discovery of America or Travelling the Postmodern Way -- PART 2: OVERINTERPRETING THE SIGNS -- 6 Economic Interpretation -- 7 Eco's Hermeneutics and Translation Studies: Between 'Manipulation' and 'Overinterpretation' -- 8 The Serendipities of Semiotics, or Knowledge as a 'Theory of Next Thursday' -- PART 3: FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- 9 Reconsidering the Implications of the 'Pre-Semiotic' Writings in Umberto Eco -- 10 Traces of Analytic Philosophy: Meaning, Reference and Style in Kant and the Platypus -- 11 Eco on the Move: Notes for a Re-Reading -- PART 4: A CONTRIBUTION BY UMBERTO ECO -- 12 How I Write -- 13 A Response by Eco -- Select Bibliography of Works by Umberto Eco -- Index.

Illuminating Eco provides an opportunity to view the interaction between Umberto Eco's fiction and his theoretical texts, and suggests future avenues of research. Covering the range of British scholarship on Eco's literary and theoretical work, essays by scholars such as Michael Caesar and David Robey consider Eco's writing through the reading strategies suggested by his texts, in light of alternative critical approaches, and by challenging previous theoretical interpretations of Eco's work. Among the contributions are Eco's written response to these essays and a translation of the final chapter from his Sulla letteratura, in which Eco discusses the conception and execution of his narrative works. Its interdisciplinary nature makes this collection accessible to a wide readership in order to situate Eco's work in the greater literary and critical sphere.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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