Eco's Chaosmos demonstrates how Eco's use of semiotic theory is important for an understanding of the postmodern aspects of today's literature and culture.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- List of Figures 12
- Preface 14
- Acknowledgments 16
- 1 Introduction 20
- 2 From Cosmos to Chaosmos: Eco and Joyce 25
- Between Order and Chaos: A Theory of Semiotics 26
- The Middle Ages of Umberto Eco 28
- Analogy as Epistemological Tool: Nicholas of Cusa 34
- Into the Renaissance: Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Symbols 40
- From Logic to Wit: Emanuele Tesauro and the Power of Metaphor 42
- The Evolution of Eco's Thought 46
- 3 Semiotics as a Solution: From a Theory of Aesthetics to the Study of Culture 49
- Pareyson and Aesthetic Theory 49
- From Semiology to Semiotics 54
- The Study of Mass Culture 62
- Opera aperta and Medieval Thought 66
- From Apocalittici e integrati to Il superuomo di massa 69
- Counterculture and Cultural Studies 73
- 4 The Aesthetics of Reception and the Reflection on the Reader: From the Labyrinth to the Southern Seas 78
- Eco's Theoretical Writings on Interpretation and the Role of the Reader 82
- 'Who's Guilty? ': The Doomed Reader in The Name of the Rose 97
- 'It's the Reader's Fault': Foucault's Pendulum 101
- Postmodernism and Baroque in The Island of the Day Before: The Multiplied Reader 108
- Baudolino, Reader/Writer 119
- 5 Intertextuality: The Middle Ages, Postmodernity, and the Use of Citation 123
- Techniques of Citation in the Middle Ages 124
- Postmodern Quoting and Eco's Novels 126
- Eco, Borges, Postmodernism, and Play 130
- Calvino's 'Multiplicity' and Postmodern Fiction 134
- 6 A Theory of Medieval Laughter: The Comic, Humour, and Wit 140
- The 'Bustine di Minerva' 146
- The Power of the False 155
- 7 The Whodunit and Eco's Postmodern Fiction 157
- The Theory of Abduction and The Name of the Rose 163
- Medieval Aspects of a Postmodern Whodunit The Computer and the Kabbalah 172
- In the Swing of the Pendulum 178
- 8 Baudolino and the Language of Monsters 186
- History, Fiction, and the Realm of Monsters 188
- In the Land of Monsters 192
- Baudolino and Negative Theology 197
- The Power of Falsity: Baudolino's Own Monstrosity 204
- Monsters between Chaos and Cosmos 207
- 9 Conclusion 209
- Experiences in Translation and Sulla letteratura 212
- Appendix A 216
- Appendix B 222
- Notes 226
- Bibliography 246
- Index 258
- A 258
- B 258
- C 259
- D 259
- E 259
- F 260
- G 260
- H 260
- I 260
- J 261
- K 261
- L 261
- M 261
- N 261
- O 261
- P 261
- Q 262
- R 262
- S 262
- T 262
- V 263
- W 263
- Z 263
