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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 October 2009
      03 April 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511581755
      9780521442008
      9780521020879
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511581755
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.455kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.312kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, English Literature after 1945
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    Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, English Literature after 1945
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    Umberto Eco is Italy's most famous living intellectual, known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco and the Open Text is the first comprehensive study in English of Eco's work. In clear and accessible language, Peter Bondanella considers not only Eco's most famous texts, but also many occasional essays not yet translated into English. Tracing Eco's intellectual development from early studies in medieval aesthetics to seminal works on popular culture, postmodern fiction, and semiotic theory, he shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella cites all texts in English, and provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco.

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    "Peter Bondanella's Umberto Eco and the Open Text, an extremely intelligent, well-researched monograph and the most lucid study on Umberto Eco to date, was certainly well worth the wait. Peter Bondanella's study of Umberto Eco is a invaluable guide for anyone who wishes to understand and appreciate one of the wittiest and most erudite, intelligent, and entertaining intellectuals of our time." Rocco Capozzi, World Literature Today

    "Bondanella's book amounts to a masterful sketch of Italian and Western intellectual history from the early 1950's to the present." The Comparatist

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