Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture

by Peter Bondanella

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521020875
• ISBN13: 9780521020879
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"