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Author:   Charlotte Ross ,  Rochelle Sibley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780367887803

ISBN 10:   0367887800
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Introduction: interpretation and uncertainty, David Robey; Part 1 Readers of Open (Para)Texts: Maps and territories: Eco crossing the boundary, Jonathan Key; Aspects of the labyrinth in The Name of the Rose: chaos and order in the Abbey Library, Rochelle Sibley; Eco and the reading of the Second Level, Manuela Barranu; Eco's discovery of America or travelling the postmodern way, Vanna Motta; Part 2 Overinterpreting the Signs: Economic interpretation, Clare Birchall; Eco's hermeneutics and translation studies: between 'manipulation' and 'overinterpretation', Edoardo Crisafulli; The serendipities of semiotics, or knowledge as a 'Theory of Next Thursday', Charlotte Ross; Part 3 Future Directions: Reconsidering the implications of the 'pre-semiotic' writings in Umberto Eco, Sangjin Park; Traces of analytic philosophy: meaning, reference and style in Kant and the Platypus, Florian Mussgnug; Eco on the move: notes for a re-reading, Michael Caesar; Part 4 A Contribution by Umberto Eco: How I write, Umberto Eco; A response by Eco; Bibliography; Index.

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'This new collection of critical essays [...] is a valuable theoretical instrument for further clarifying and 'illuminating' Eco's eclectic, multi-faceted, and exuberant work.' Italian Studies

Author Information

Charlotte Ross Lecturers in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her PhD research focused on the presentation of science, technology and 'progress' in the work of Primo Levi. Rochelle Sibley is Postgraduate Tutor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, and Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. Her PhD research addresses the influence of Dante's cosmology in the Commedia on the representation of reality in James Joyce's Ulysses, Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, and Italo Calvino's Ti con zero.

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