Wagstaff, "The Neo-Avantgarde." I am grateful to the publishers for permission to reprint parts of my chapter here. Readers are referred to this volume for further information on the literary context of Eco's writing, and especially to the chapter by C. Hainsworth, eds., Writers and Society in Contemporary Italy (Leamington Spa, England: Berg Publishers, 1984), pp. Much of this introduction appeared in my chapter on Umberto Eco in M. Il problema estetico in San Tommaso (Turin, 1956) now revised by the author and recently translated into English as The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988). Most of them are taken from one or more of the many editions of 1. This book collects for the first time in English Eco's major "presemiotic" writings on modern literature and art-writings, that is, which predate the publication in 1968 of his first semiotic or semiological book (the terms "semiotics" and "semiology" can be used interchangeably), La struttura assente (The absent structure). Since he wrote his dissertation, his remarkable energies have been mainly directed at the problems and issues of the present: modern art and modern culture, mass communications, and the discipline of semiotics. But medieval studies have been only a minor if persistent interest in Eco's work as a whole. As so many readers of The Name of the Rose can testify, few, if any, works of fiction have brought the cultural and intellectual world of this period, or of any other period, so successfully to life. Umberto Eco's first published book was the dissertation he wrote at the University of Turin, on problems of aesthetics in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas.' His first novel, published twenty-four years later in 198o, continues this early interest in the high Middle Ages. Joyce, James, 1882-1941-Criticism and interpretation 5. The open work I Umberto Eco translated by Anna Cancogni: with an introduction by David Robey.īibliography: p. ĥ Chance and Plot: Television and Aestheticsħ Form and Interpretation in Luigi Pareyson's Aesthetics Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eco. The English translations of Chapters r and 11 arc by Bruce Merry and are reprinted with the permission of Twentieth-Cenrury Studies. from La delinizione dell'arte they appear here in English translation by arrangement with the author.
Chapter 7 is from Lettere iuliane Chapter 8. respectively O Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bompiani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A., Milan. and 6 are from Opera spenu Chapters 9 and to are from Apocalimei e integrati and La struttura user:re. Translated by Anna Cancogni With an Introduction by David RobeyĬontents Copyright C 1989 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America to 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 Chapters I.
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