Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- ONE Umberto Eco's intellectual origins: medieval aesthetics, publishing, and mass media
- TWO The Open Work, Misreadings, and modernist aesthetics
- THREE Cultural theory and popular culture: from structuralism to semiotics
- FOUR From semiotics to narrative theory in a decade of radical social change
- FIVE “To make truth laugh”: postmodern theory and practice in The Name of the Rose
- SIX Interpretation, overinterpretation, paranoid interpretation, and Foucault's Pendulum
- SEVEN Inferential strolls and narrative shipwrecks: Six Walks and The Island of the Day Before
- EIGHT Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- ONE Umberto Eco's intellectual origins: medieval aesthetics, publishing, and mass media
- TWO The Open Work, Misreadings, and modernist aesthetics
- THREE Cultural theory and popular culture: from structuralism to semiotics
- FOUR From semiotics to narrative theory in a decade of radical social change
- FIVE “To make truth laugh”: postmodern theory and practice in The Name of the Rose
- SIX Interpretation, overinterpretation, paranoid interpretation, and Foucault's Pendulum
- SEVEN Inferential strolls and narrative shipwrecks: Six Walks and The Island of the Day Before
- EIGHT Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Umberto Eco and the Open TextSemiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997