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Title: Umberto Eco's Alternative

Umberto Eco's Alternative

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

by Norma Bouchard (Volume editor) Veronica Pravadelli (Volume editor)
©1999 Textbook VI, 317 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
VI, 317
Year
1999
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820437897
Language
English
Keywords
Hermeneutic Kabbalah structuralism semiotics Postmodernist fiction
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1998. VI, 317 pp.

Biographical notes

Norma Bouchard (Volume editor) Veronica Pravadelli (Volume editor)

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).

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