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It uses material from the Wikipedia article Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco Biography. Umberto Eco born January 5, is an Italian novelist and philosopher, best known for his novels and essays. He is an author and semiotician.
He works as a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. Eco's work in literary theory has changed focus over time. Initially, he was one of the pioneers of "Reader Response.
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Those works of literature that limit potential understanding to a single, unequivocal line are the least rewarding, while those that are most open, most active between mind and society and line, are the most lively and, although valorizing terminology is not his business, best. Eco emphasizes the fact that words do not have meanings that are simply lexical, but rather operate in the context of utterance. So much had been said by I. Richards and others, but Eco draws out the implications for literature from this truth. He also extended the axis of meaning from the continually deferred meanings of words in an utterance to a play between expectation and fulfillment of meaning. Eco comes to these positions through a language study and here semiotics, rather than from psychology or historical analysis as such umberto eco a theory of semiotics pdf as Wolfgang Iser, on the one hand, and Hans-Robert Jauss, on the other hand, did.
Eco employs his education as a medievalist in his novel The Name of the Rose, which was made into a movie starring Sean Connery as a monk who investigates a series of murders revolving around a monastery library. He is particularly good at translating medieval religious controversies and heresies into modern political and economic terms so that the reader can understand them without being a theologian. At the conclusion of that novel, we are left with a monk attempting to reconstruct a library based on scraps and attempting to create meaning by the combination of random pieces of information.
This monk is fulfilling the role of a reader.
Apocalypse Postponed
Although his novels often include references to arcane historical figures and texts and his dense, intricate plots tend to take dizzying turns he has enjoyed a wide audience around the world, with good sales and many translations. In Foucault's Pendulum, under-employed historians decide, as a joke, to weave together the juicy bits of all the conspiratorial histories.
They pretend to have uncovered the master plot, the ultimate in nefarious schemes. However, their derisive joke is believed by their readers, and they find themselves caught in a reality made by their fiction.]
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