Caesar Umberto Eco

Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6594-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Key Contemporary Thinkers

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caesar, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement ix
Note on References x
Introduction 1
1 Form, Interpretation and the Open Work 6
On form and interpretation: from Croce to Pareyson 6
Art and rationality 10
The appearance of Opera aperta 15
The poetics of the open work 18
Beyond 'openness' 23
2 A Critical View of Culture: Mass Communications, Politics and the Avant-garde 28
The role of the avant-garde 29
Mass communications and theories of mass culture 37
Television and semiotic guerrilla war 43
Openness and structure 47
3 Introducing the Study of Signs 54
Signals and sense 55
Ambiguity, self-reflexivity and the aesthetic message 64
The critique of iconism 67
Some provisional conclusions on the aesthetic message 69
4 A Theory of Semiotics 76
From La struttura assente to A Theory of Semiotics 76
Communication, code and signification 81
Sign and sign-function 83
Sign production, iconism and the aesthetic message (again) 90
5 Semiotics Bounded and Unbound 100
The boundaries of semiotics 102
The dynamics of semiosis 111
6 Theory and Fiction 120
Readers and worlds Texts 120
7 Secrets, Paranoia and Critical Reading 145
8 Kant, the Platypus and the Horizon 162
Notes 171
Select Bibliography 184
Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Caesar is Professor of Italian and Head of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham.