Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521020879)

Umberto Eco is known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Peter Bondanella offers the first comprehensive study in English of Eco's works. In clear and accessible language, he traces the development of Eco's interests, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella also provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco, arguably the most famous Italian writer since Dante.

Author: Peter Bondanella
ISBN-10: 0521020875
ISBN-13: 9780521020879
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2005
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d