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Synopsis
Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art.
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Synopsis
THis is the first English collection of Eco's pre-semiotic writings on modern art, literature and culture. It explores a set of values in aesthetics which remain central to critical theory, and includes essays on Luigi Pareyson, television, mass culture and the politics of art. This serves as an introduction to the author's ideas and thoughts. Umberto Eco is a literary critic, author of many critical works and of the novel "The Name of the Rose".
About the Author
Umberto Eco Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna and is the author of many books, including Foucault's Pendulum and Six Walks in the Fictional Woods.
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- PublisherRadius
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0091759013
- ISBN 13 9780091759018
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages320
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