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Article: Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction and popular Culture.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2000
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Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction and Popular Culture. By PETER BONDANELLA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. 218 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].
Peter Bondanella's concise monograph surveys the whole of Eco's intellectual career and output from his earliest forays into medieval aesthetics to his most recent engagement with the cultural and scientific preoccupations of the seventeenth century in Europe. His volume has as a particular goal the desire to bring to an English-speaking readership a full appreciation of the literary, intellectual, and cultural theories that Eco has at various times espoused and expounded, and the way in which these ...