Umberto Eco's Alternative

The Politics of Culture and the Ambiguities of Interpretation With an Essay by Umberto Eco

Norma Bouchard, Veronica Pravadelli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

317 Seiten

1999
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
9780820437897 (ISBN)

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This anthology examines Eco's work within the context of the current debate surrounding the interpretation and production of cultural messages. The contributors include Peter Carravetta, Patrizia Violi, Davide Del Bello, Remo Ceserani, Walter Stephens, Rocco Capozzi, Linda Hutcheon, Peter Bondanella, Christine Evans, Maurizio Rebaudengo, Diane Elam, Francesco Casetti, and Barbara Grespi. The richness of these writers' approaches mirrors the subject and provides new and fresher ways to think about Eco.

The Editors: Norma Bouchard received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. She is the author of numerous articles, including essays on Umberto Eco and Samuel Beckett. Veronica Pravadelli is affiliated with the Department of Film Studies at the University of Roma Tre (Italy). She has published essays on American musicals and melodrama, and on the films of Chantal Ackerman. She is also co-editor of Studi Viscontiani (1997).

Contents: Norma Bouchard / Veronica Pravadelli: Introduction - Patrizia Violi: Individual and Communal Encyclopedias - Davide Del Bello: The Search for the Perfect Sign: Eco, Vico, and the Destiniy of Rhetoric in European Culture - Peter Carravetta: Hermeneutic Aspects of Eco's Later Works - Helen Bennett: The Limitations of Openness: Foucault's Pendulum and Kabbalah - Walter Stephens: Desperately Seeking Satan: Witchcraft and Censorship in The Name of the Rose - Rocco Capozzi: Libraries, Encyclopedias, and Rhizomes: Popularizing Culture in Eco's Superfictions - Remo Ceserani: Eco's (Post)modernist Fictions - Linda Hutcheon: Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the (Post)Modern - Diane Elam: P.S. 'I Love You': Umberto Eco and The Romance of the Reader - Peter Bondanella: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: From Structuralism to Semiotics - Maurizio Rebaudengo: Between Shelves and Columns: Scattered Fragments of a Semiotic Discourse - Christine Ann Evans: Eco's Fifth Column: The Critic of Culture Within the Precincts of the Popular - Francesco Casetti and Barbara Grespi: Cinema and the Question of Reception - Umberto Eco: How and Why I Write.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1999
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-13	9780820437897 / 9780820437897
Zustand	Neuware