Eco's Chaosmos : : From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity / / Cristina Farronato.
While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his spectacular concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what constitutes the peculiarity of his critical and fictio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From Cosmos to Chaosmos: Eco and Joyce
- 3. Semiotics as a Solution: From a Theory of Aesthetics to the Study of Culture
- 4. The Aesthetics of Reception and the Reflection on the Reader: From the Labyrinth to the Southern Seas
- 5. Intertextuality: The Middle Ages, Postmodernity, and the Use of Citation
- 6. A Theory of Medieval Laughter: The Comic, Humour, and Wit
- 7. The Whodunit and Eco's Postmodern Fiction
- 8. Baudolino and the Language of Monsters
- 9. Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index