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Article: Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction. By MICHAEL CAESAR. (Key Contemporary Thinkers) Cambridge: Polity Press. 1999. x + 198 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]).
This is another in Polity's 'Key Contemporary Thinkers' series and it is interesting to speculate on the brief the author was given by the editors (John Thompson, who began the series, is not credited here, except in the acknowledgements). Michael Caesar decided to go for the hard and the mainstream, and well over half his book is on Eco and semiotic theory, about which he writes very competently, but a little dourly, as though it were not an area he feels ...
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