Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and...
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This is a list of works published by Umberto Eco. Il nome della rosa (1980; English translation: The Name of the Rose, 1983) Il pendolo di Foucault (1988;...
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The Name of the Rose (category Novels by Umberto Eco)
[il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the...
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by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, called...
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Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian writer Umberto Giordano (1867–1948), Italian composer Umberto Meoli (1920–2002), Italian economic historian Umberto Merlin...
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Foucault's Pendulum (category Novels by Umberto Eco)
[il ˈpɛndolo di fuˈko]) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988, with an English translation by William...
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Ur-Fascism (category Books by Umberto Eco)
essay authored by the Italian philosopher, novelist, and semiotician Umberto Eco. First published in 1995, this influential essay provides an analysis...
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Definitions of fascism (section Umberto Eco)
that followed it? In his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", cultural theorist Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology. He argues that...
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Film semiotics (section Umberto Eco (1968))
like) a bird. Umberto Eco, "Articulations of The Cinematic Code" (1976)—"Sulle articolazioni del codice cinematografico" (1968): Umberto Eco’s research dealt...
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object Noticias ECO, a defunct television network Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian philosopher, semiotician, novelist Search for "eco" on Wikipedia. Ecco...
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Cryptomnesia (section Umberto Eco)
subconscious recollection. In Interpretation and Overinterpretation, Umberto Eco describes the rediscovery of an antique book among his large collection...
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William Weaver (section Umberto Eco)
literature. Weaver was best known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, and Italo Calvino, but translated many other Italian authors...
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Sanders Peirce to draw up a "new list of categories". More recently Umberto Eco, in his Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, has argued that semiotic...
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Sulayman al-Ghazzi, considered Syriac the language spoken by Adam and Eve. Umberto Eco (1993) notes that Genesis is ambiguous on whether the language of Adam...
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Plan of Saint Gall (section Umberto Eco)
According to Earl Anderson (Cleveland State University), it is likely that Umberto Eco references the plan in his novel The Name of the Rose: "perhaps larger...
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captured the imagination of authors, finding its way into fiction. In Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, the search for a mystic center of the Earth connects...
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (category Novels by Umberto Eco)
Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) is a novel by the Italian writer Umberto Eco. It was first published in Italian in 2004, and an English language translation...
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kept by Umberto Eco —who used the term "antilibrary" to describe Jonathan Swift's description of a library on Gulliver's Travels—writing that Eco "separates...
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historical mystery novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) by Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose is itself a recounting of events as experienced...
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Europe, Core Europe', Umberto Eco argued that the unification of Europe is inevitable. In his speech, Mayor Dijkstra called Umberto Eco 'a true European'...
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2023. Nöth, Winfried (21 August 2017), "Umberto Eco: Structuralist and Poststructuralist at Once", Umberto Eco in His Own Words, De Gruyter Mouton, pp...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (section Part one: Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme...
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Fra Dolcino. The phrase is used in the novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and in the Jean-Jacques Annaud movie and also a miniseries of same name...
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Faith in Fakes (category Books by Umberto Eco)
in Fakes) was originally an essay written by the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco, about "America's obsession with simulacra and counterfeit reality."...
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Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco Dance Dance Dance (1988) by Haruki Murakami The Satanic Verses (1988)...
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by Umberto Eco". the Guardian. Retrieved June 3, 2023. Eco, Umberto (2007). On Ugliness. London: Harvill Secker. ISBN 9781846551222. Eco, Umberto (1980)...
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based on the 1980 international bestseller novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. The series stars John Turturro as William of Baskerville and Rupert...
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published. It is based on a series of lectures she wrote for the 2021 Umberto Eco lecture series, sponsored by the University of Bologna. The text was...
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served as one of the inspirations for the book The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. According to some historians, in Roman times a military stronghold existed...
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The Prague Cemetery (category Novels by Umberto Eco)
Cemetery (Italian: Il cimitero di Praga) is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard...
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