Peter Bondanella. Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)

Annali d'Italianistica | January 1, 1998| | Copyright

Peter Bondanella. Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture. Cambridge: UP, 1997. Pp. 218.

Because we are living in the intellectual age defined and shaped by Umberto Eco, and because this major cultural figure continues to produce important works at a prodigious rate, it is difficult yet crucial for us to stand back and take his measure. In Umberto Eco and the Open Text, Peter Bondanella admirably meets this challenge. Writing what could best be described as an intellectual biography, Bondanella traces Eco's evolution from student of ...

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