Reading Eco

"[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price that Eco and his readers must/may pay for the enormous pleasure and intellectual stimulus of being Eco and being with Eco." -- The ComparatistUmberto Eco is, quite simply, a genius. He is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular journalist, and linguist. He is as warm and witty as he is learned -- and quite probably the best-known academic and novelist in the world today. The goal of this anthology is to examine his ideas of literary semiotics and interpretation as evidenced both in his scholarly work and in his fiction.

Umberto Eco, best known for his novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, has also written numerous scholarly books, including A Theory of Semiotics, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, The Limits of Interpretation, and Apocalypse Postponed, all from Indiana University Press.Rocco Capozzi is Professor of Italian at the University of Toronto, where he teaches contemporary literature, literary theories, and semiotics. He has published numerous books in Italian and English.

FOREWORD

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Thomas A. Sebeok

PREFACE An introduction to Umberto Eco

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Rocco Capozzi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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PART I. READING ECO

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1.1 Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

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1.2 Innovation and Repetition: Between Modern and Post-Modern Aesthetics

14

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1.3 Two Problems in Textual Interpretation

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1.4 Universe of the Mind. A Semiotic Theory of Culture

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1.5 An Author and his Interpreters

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PART II. READINGS ON ECO. A PRETEXT TO LITERARY SEMIOTICS AND INTERPRETATION

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2.1 Davis Seed The Open Work in Theory and Practice

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2.2 John Deely Looking back on A Theory of Semiotics

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2.3 Lubomir Dolezel The Themata of Eco's Semiotics of Literature

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2.4 Susan Petrilli Towards Interpretation Semiotics

121

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2.5 Irmengard Rauch Openness, Eco, and the End of Another Millennium

137

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2.6 Victorino Tejera Eco, Peirce and the Necessity of Interpretation

147

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2.7 Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz Semiotics and Deconstruction

163

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2.8 Michael Riffaterre The Interpretant in Literary Semiotics

173

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2.9 Paul Perron and Patrick Debbeche On Truth and Lying: U. Eco and A. J. Greimas

185

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2.10 Roberta Kevelson Eco and Dramatology

196

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2.11 Anna Longoni Esoteric Conspiracies and the Interpretative Strategy

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2.12 Rocco Capozzi Interpretation and Overinterpretation. The rights of texts, readers and implied authors

217

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PART III. READING ECO's POSSIBLE WORLDS

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3a. The Name of the Rose

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3.1 Teresa De Lauretis Gaudy Rose: Eco and Narcissism

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3.2 David H. Richter The Mirrored World: Form and Ideology in The Name of the Rose

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3.3 Thomas Sebeok Give Me Another Horse

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3b. Foucault's Pendulum

285

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3.4 Peter Bondanella Interpretation, Overinterpretation, Paranoid Interpretation and Foucault's Pendulum

285

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3.5 Theresa Coletti Bellydancing: Gender, Silence, and the Women of Foucault's Pendulum

300

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3.6 Linda Hutcheon Irony-clad Foucault

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3.7 Lois Parkinson Zamora The Swing of the `Pendulum': Eco's Novels

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3c. The Island of the Day Before

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3.8 Norma Bouchard Whose `Excess of Wonder' Is it Anyway? Reading Eco's Tangle of Hermetic and Pragmatic Semiosis in The Island of the Day Before

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3.9 Claudia Miranda "Dove" is the Dove?

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3.10 Rocco Capozzi Intertextuality, Metaphors and Metafiction as Cognitive Strategies in The Island of the Day Before

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PART IV. REFERENCES

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4.1 Notes

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4.2 Integrated Bibliography

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4.3 Contributors

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