Travels in Hyper Reality: EssaysEco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book |
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User Review - aegossman - LibraryThingI thought that Eco might be something like buckminster fuller. Apart from referencing him- not so much. Seemed a bit pompous for me. But I'll keep it and read it again in three years and then if I still think he is pompous then I'll ditch it. Read full review
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User Review - iayork - LibraryThingAmorphous Lump o' Eco: Umberto Eco is clearly a genius - his fictional works testify to that. I assume his reputation as a semiologist is well earned (since I know little about the subject beyond what ... Read full review
Contents
THE RETURN OF THE MIDDLE AGES | 59 |
The Sacred Is Not Just a Fashion | 89 |
Whose Side Are the Orixa On? | 103 |
Why Are They Laughing in Those Cages? | 119 |
REPORTS FROM THE GLOBAL VILLAGE | 133 |
Two Families of Objects | 183 |
Lumbar Thought | 191 |
Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage | 197 |
A Photograph | 213 |
Cogito Interruptus | 221 |
Language Power Force | 239 |
In Praise of St Thomas | 257 |
The Comic and the Rule | 269 |
DE INTERPRETATION | 281 |
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| Title | Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays A Helen and Kurt Wolff book Harvest book |
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0156913216, 9780156913218 |
| Length | 307 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory |
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