Eco's chaosmos : from the Middle Ages to postmodernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farronato, Cristina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
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.