Article: Cristina Farronato. Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity.(Book Review)

Cristina Farronato. Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

The aim of Cristina Farronato's study is to map the blending of medieval and postmodern philosophy that informs Umberto Eco's theoretical and fictional work as well as to discuss the tension between order and disorder, chaos and cosmos, closure and openness that shapes it. Such tension, which Farronato, following Eco's work on Joyce (i.e., The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce) calls "chaosmos," also provides a title for her own volume.

The first introductory chapter outlines the peculiarity of Eco's formation as a ...

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