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

Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity. By CRISTINA FARRONATO. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. xiv + 246 pp. 32 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8020-8789-2 (pbk 0-8020-8586-5).

For many years, the majority of literary critics in the English-speaking world considered Umberto Eco's theoretical writings primarily as a source of sophisticated clues for the interpretation of his novels. This trend now seems to have changed: during the late 1990s Peter Bondanella (Umberto Eco and the Open Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)) and Michael Caesar (Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction ...

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