Eco's chaosmos : from the Middle Ages to postmodernity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Toronto Italian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- From cosmos to chaosmos : Eco and Joyce
- Semiotics as a solution : from a theory of aesthetics to the study of culture
- The aesthetics of reception and the reflection on the reader : from the labyrinth to the Southern Seas
- Intertextuality : the Middle Ages, postmodernity, and the use of citation
- A theory of medieval laughter : the comic, humour, and wit
- The whodunit and Eco's postmodern fiction
- Baudolino and the language of monsters
- Conclusion.