Eco's chaosmos: from the Middle Ages to postmodernity
"While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what distinguishes his critical and fictional writing is the tens...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what distinguishes his critical and fictional writing is the tension between a typically medieval search for a code and a hermeneutic representative of deconstructive tendencies. This tension between cosmos and chaos, order and disorder, is reflected in the word chaosmos." "In this assessment of the philosophical basis of Eco's critical and fictional writing, Cristina Farronato explores the other distinctive aspect of Eco's thought - the struggle for a composition of opposites, the outcome deriving from his ability to elicit similar contrasts from the past and replay them in modern terms. Focusing principally on how Eco's scholarly background influenced his study of semiotics, Farronato analyses The Name of the Rose in relation to William of Ockhman's epistemology, C. S. Peirce's work on abduction, and Wittgenstein's theory of language. She also discusses Foucault's Pendulum as an explicit comment on the modern debate on interpretation through a direct reference to early modern hermetic thought, correlates The Island of the Day Before as a postmodern mixture of science and superstition, and reviews Baudolino as a historical/fantastic novel that again situates the Middle Ages in a postmodern context. Demonstrating Eco's use of semiotic theory, Eco's Chaosmos shows how critical models of the past map contemporary literature and culture."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| adam_text | ECO S CHAOSMOS
From the Middle Ages
to Postmodernity
Cristina Farronato
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
Contents
List of Figures xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction 3
2 From Cosmos to Chaosmos: Eco and Joyce 8
Between Order and Chaos: A Theory of Semiotics 9
The Middle Ages of Umberto Eco 11
Analogy as Epistemological Tool: Nicholas of Cusa 17
Into the Renaissance: Giordano Bruno and the Logic of
Symbols 23
From Logic to Wit: Emanuele Tesauro and the Power of
Metaphor 25
The Evolution of Eco s Thought 29
3 Semiotics as a Solution: From a Theory of Aesthetics to the
Study of Culture 32
Pareyson and Aesthetic Theory 32
From Semiology to Semiotics 37
The Study of Mass Culture 45
Opera aperta and Medieval Thought 49
From Apocalittici e integrati to II superuomo di massa 52
Counterculture and Cultural Studies 56
viii Contents
4 The Aesthetics of Reception and the Reflection on the Reader:
From the Labyrinth to the Southern Seas 61
Eco s Theoretical Writings on Interpretation and the Role of the
Reader 65
Who s Guilty? : The Doomed Reader in The Name of the Rose 80
It s the Reader s Fault : Foucault s Pendulum 84
Postmodernism and Baroque in The Island of the Day Before: The
Multiplied Reader 91
Baudolino, Reader/Writer 102
5 Intertextuality: The Middle Ages, Postmodernity, and the
Use of Citation 106
Techniques of Citation in the Middle Ages 107
Postmodern Quoting and Eco s Novels 109
Eco, Borges, Postmodernism, and Play 113
Calvino s Multiplicity and Postmodern Fiction 117
6 A Theory of Medieval Laughter: The Comic, Humour, and Wit 123
The Bustine di Minerva 129
The Power of the False 138
7 The Whodunit and Eco s Postmodern Fiction 140
The Theory of Abduction and The Name of the Rose 146
Medieval Aspects of a Postmodern Whodunit The Computer and the
Kabbalah 155
In the Swing of the Pendulum 161
8 Baudolino and the Language of Monsters 169
History, Fiction, and the Realm of Monsters 171
In the Land of Monsters 175
Baudolino and Negative Theology 180
The Power of Falsity: Baudolino s Own Monstrosity 187
Monsters between Chaos and Cosmos 190
9 Conclusion 192
Experiences in Translation and Sulla letteratura 195
Contents ix
Appendix A 199
Appendix B 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 229
Index 241
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