Umberto Eco
Biographic Data
| ID | 262963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umberto Eco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Eco |
| SIGNATURE | ECO U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 96 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Comunicação: Hard e soft
Umberto Eco Palestra realizada em 2014, Festival della comunicazione di Camogli
Hard and Soft Communication
Umberto Eco ́s Lecture at Festival della Comunicazione di Camogli in 2014
Wie man eine wissenschaftliche Abschlußarbeit schreibt: Doktor-, Diplom- und Magisterarbeit in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Diese Anleitung für die Planung, Gliederung und Niederschrift wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten von Umberto Eco, Professor an der Universität Bologna, ist ebenso gründlich wie virtuos. Nach Ecos eigenen Worten (Einleitung) gibt sein Buch "Auskunft darüber, (1) was man unter einer Abschlussarbeit versteht, (2) wie man das Thema sucht und die Zeit für seine Bearbeitung einteilt, (3) wie man bei der Literatursuche vorgeht, (4) wie man das gefundene Materi…
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
Giorgio Prodi and the lower threshold of semiotics
Publication of a translation of the text of Umberto Eco’s talk given in honour of Giorgio Prodi in 1988
Animal language before Sebeok
Publication of the text of Umberto Eco’s talk given at a symposium held in honour of Thomas A. Sebeok (1920–2001) in San Marino in 2002
Cinco sentidos de semántica
El semiólogo y escritor italiano Umberto Eco (1932-2016) problematiza la noción de semántica, entendida de manera limitada como “el estudio del significado de las palabras”. Eco parte de cinco concepciones de la semántica, que pertenecen a diversas escuelas de la lingüística, la filosofía de lenguaje, la teoría literaria y la lexicografía para poner de manifiesto la complejidad del término y, por tanto, la idea de sentido
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
Commercial song
The authors of this book present four complementary approaches to the issue of commercial song, i.e. of that 'gastronomic' music produced by the music industry in order to meet trends that the industry itself discovers (and feeds) in the national market. The fact that they have restricted the focus of their inquiry to 'gastronomic' music already suggests the polemic attitude of their studies: considering that the whole family of 'bad music' - mus…
Discours prononcé à l’occasion de la remise du titre de Docteur honoris causa de l’université de Franche
Texte paru pour la première fois dans n°111 de Tout l’U, journal de l’université de Franche-Comté (supplément de mars 2004) et publié avec l’aimable autorisation de la revue
Sémiotique générale et philosophie du langage
From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation
Interview with Umberto Eco
Additional informationNotes on contributorsUmberto EcoUmberto Eco is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna (Italy) where for many years he was the Director of programs in Semiotics and in Communications. Since the 1950s, he has published numerous influential essays as well as acclaimed novels, children's books, and scholarly books on a wide range of topics. He has written numerous well-known accounts of Semiotics and its importance in…
Prelims
De la radio à L'Œuvre ouverte
Quelques commentaires sur les personnages de fiction
L’auteur met en place des observations et développe des analyses sur le statut des personnages de fiction, mettant à contribution les ressources de l’histoire, de la littérature, de la sémiotique, de la logique et de la narratologie. De quelle vie particulière vivent les personnages de roman, qui fait que nous sommes capables de les tenir pour plus réels que des personnages réels, et que nous sommes enclins à éprouver les sentiments qu’ils éprouv…
On the ontology of fictional characters: A semiotic approach
Why are we deeply moved by the misfortune of Anna Karenina if we are fully aware that she is simply a fictional character who does not exist in our world? But what does it mean that fictional characters do not exist? The present article is concerned with the ontology of fictional characters. The author concludes that successful fictional characters become paramount examples of the ‘real’ human condition because they live in an incomplete world wh…
The Network Collective: Rise and Fall of a Scientific Paradigm
First-hand account of the rise and fall of a scientific paradigm Shows how scientific fiction turns to fact Highlights the origin of scientific hype Includes interviews with prominent scientists The network paradigm dominated immunological research from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The originator, Niels Jerne, hypothesized that the vast diversity of antibodies in each individual forms a network of mutual "idiotypic" recognition, thus regula…
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
La Epístola XIII, el alegorismo medieval, el simbolismo moderno
La Epístola XIII, el alegorismo medieval, el simbolismo moderno
Forma Locutionis
Forma Locutionis
Innovation & repetition: Between modern & postmodern aesthetics
This is the reason why modern aesthetics was so severe apropos the industrial-like products of the mass media.A popular song, a tv commercial, a comic strip, a detective novel, a Western movie were seen as more or less successful tokens of a given model or type.As such they were judged as pleasurable but nonartistic.Furthermore, this excess of pleasurability, repetition, lack of innovation, was felt as a commercial trick (the product had to meet …
Cinco Escritos Morales
Framing the Rational in Fieldwork
Apocalypse Postponed: Essays by Umberto Eco
An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals as apocalyptic and opposed to all mass culture, or as integrated intellectuals, so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it. Organized in four main parts, "Mass Culture: A…
Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage
Semiotics of Theatrical Performance
According to Jorge Luis Borges, Abulgualid Mohammed Ibn Ahmed Ibn Mohammahd Ibn Rushd, better known as Averroes, was thinking—something like one thousand years ago, more or less—about a difficult question concerning Aristotle's Poetics. As you probably know, Averroes was a specialist on Aristotle, mainly on the Poetics. As a matter of fact, Western civilization had lost this book and had rediscovered it only through the mediation of Arab philosop…
Peirce's Notion of Interpretant
James Bond: Une Combinatoire Narrative
Eco Umberto. James Bond : une combinatoire narrative. In: Communications, 8, 1966. Recherches sémiologiques : l'analyse structurale du récit. pp. 77-93
The Scandal of Metaphor: Metaphorology and Semiotics
Pour une reformulation du concept de signe iconique
Eco Umberto. Pour une reformulation du concept de signe iconique. In: Communications, 29, 1978. Image(s) et culture(s) sous la direction de Christian Metz et Michel Rio. pp. 141-191
Innovation & repetition: Between modern & postmodern aesthetics
This is the reason why modern aesthetics was so severe apropos the industrial-like products of the mass media.A popular song, a tv commercial, a comic strip, a detective novel, a Western movie were seen as more or less successful tokens of a given model or type.As such they were judged as pleasurable but nonartistic.Furthermore, this excess of pleasurability, repetition, lack of innovation, was felt as a commercial trick (the product had to meet …
Innovation et répétition: Entre Esthétique Moderne Et Post-Moderne
L'esthétique modeme s'est désintéressée des produits des mass media, les assimilant à ceux de l'artisanat et de l'industrie. Moins soucieuse d'innovation, l'esthétique classique n'établissait pas de distinction si tranchée entre art et artisanat. Récemment, une esthétique post-moderne « de la sérialité » est revenue sur les concepts de répétition et d'itération en insistant sur l'aspect « infini » de la variabilité et la naissance d'un « nouveau …
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture
of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of CultureYuri M. LotmanIntroduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann ShukmanA major book by one of the initiators of cultural studies. Universe of the Mind is an ambitious, complex, and wide-ranging book that semioticians, textual critics, and those interested in cultural studies will find stimulating and immensely suggestive. Journal of CommunicationSoviet semiotics offers a distinctive, richly productive approach …
Two Problems in Textual Interpretation
The two sections below are two further elaborations of the theory of the interpretation of narrative texts presented in The Role of the Reader (1979a) and then developed further in Lector in Fabula (1979b). For the convenience of the reader, I am presenting here the table of levels of textual cooperation published in Eco 1979a, p. 14. In the box on discursive structures I did not sufficiently develop the voice chosen of the isotopies, since the c…
On the ontology of fictional characters: A semiotic approach
Why are we deeply moved by the misfortune of Anna Karenina if we are fully aware that she is simply a fictional character who does not exist in our world? But what does it mean that fictional characters do not exist? The present article is concerned with the ontology of fictional characters. The author concludes that successful fictional characters become paramount examples of the ‘real’ human condition because they live in an incomplete world wh…
A Componential Analysis of the Architectural Sign /Column
Reading My Readers
I have repeatedly tried, in the course of the last twelve years, not to speak about my novels. After the various translations of The Name of the Rose, besieged as I was by too many interviewers, I decided not to answer silly questions, and once I made a list of twelve of them for which I had already provided twelve silly answers. I remember that the first question was Why did you choose this title? and the answer was: Because Pinocchio and Snow W…
Instructional semantics for presuppositions
Le mythe de Superman
Eco Umberto. Le mythe de Superman. In: Communications, 24, 1976. La bande dessinée et son discours, sous la direction de Michel Covin, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle et Bernard Toussaint. pp. 24-40
Sémiologie des messages visuels
Eco Umberto. Sémiologie des messages visuels. In: Communications, 15, 1970. L'analyse des images. pp. 11-51
Giorgio Prodi and the lower threshold of semiotics
Publication of a translation of the text of Umberto Eco’s talk given in honour of Giorgio Prodi in 1988
Interview with Umberto Eco
Additional informationNotes on contributorsUmberto EcoUmberto Eco is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna (Italy) where for many years he was the Director of programs in Semiotics and in Communications. Since the 1950s, he has published numerous influential essays as well as acclaimed novels, children's books, and scholarly books on a wide range of topics. He has written numerous well-known accounts of Semiotics and its importance in…
Quelques commentaires sur les personnages de fiction
L’auteur met en place des observations et développe des analyses sur le statut des personnages de fiction, mettant à contribution les ressources de l’histoire, de la littérature, de la sémiotique, de la logique et de la narratologie. De quelle vie particulière vivent les personnages de roman, qui fait que nous sommes capables de les tenir pour plus réels que des personnages réels, et que nous sommes enclins à éprouver les sentiments qu’ils éprouv…
Greimassian Semantics and the Encyclopedia
EMANTICS, as the discipline that studies the articulation of content, has been examining the opposition between dictionary and encyclopedia for some years. The opposition had already been demonstrated, in different forms, in the framework of logic and the philosophy of language; the classical opposition between analytic and synthetic properties, or the opposition between elements of semantic knowledge and world knowledge, can be reduced to this o…
Travels in Hyperreality
Metaphor, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia
La sémiologie des Mythologies
Eco Umberto, Pezzini Isabella. La sémiologie des Mythologies. In: Communications, 36, 1982. Roland Barthes. pp. 19-42
Eco and His Model Reader
Peirce et la sémantique contemporaine
Eco Umberto, Peraldi François. Peirce et la sémantique contemporaine. In: Langages, 14e année, n°58, 1980. La sémiotique de C.S Peirce, sous la direction de François Peraldi. pp. 75-91
The Meaning of Meaning
La musique et la machine
La chanson de consommation
Eco Umberto. La chanson de consommation. In: Communications, 6, 1965. Chansons et disques. pp. 20-33
James Bond: Une Combinatoire Narrative
Eco Umberto. James Bond : une combinatoire narrative. In: Communications, 8, 1966. Recherches sémiologiques : l'analyse structurale du récit. pp. 77-93
Apocalípticos e integrados ante la cultura de masas
Sémiologie des messages visuels
Eco Umberto. Sémiologie des messages visuels. In: Communications, 15, 1970. L'analyse des images. pp. 11-51
The Myth of Superman
A Componential Analysis of the Architectural Sign /Column
A Theory of Semiotics
"... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions." -Language in Society"... a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." -Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"... …
Peirce's Notion of Interpretant
Le mythe de Superman
Eco Umberto. Le mythe de Superman. In: Communications, 24, 1976. La bande dessinée et son discours, sous la direction de Michel Covin, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle et Bernard Toussaint. pp. 24-40
Conventions of the Natural and the Naturalness of Conventions
On the contribution of film to semiotics
Semiotics of Theatrical Performance
According to Jorge Luis Borges, Abulgualid Mohammed Ibn Ahmed Ibn Mohammahd Ibn Rushd, better known as Averroes, was thinking—something like one thousand years ago, more or less—about a difficult question concerning Aristotle's Poetics. As you probably know, Averroes was a specialist on Aristotle, mainly on the Poetics. As a matter of fact, Western civilization had lost this book and had rediscovered it only through the mediation of Arab philosop…
Semiotics and Semantics
Semiologie de la representation: Theatre, Television, Bande Dessinee
Pour une reformulation du concept de signe iconique
Eco Umberto. Pour une reformulation du concept de signe iconique. In: Communications, 29, 1978. Image(s) et culture(s) sous la direction de Christian Metz et Michel Rio. pp. 141-191
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
"... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." -The Review of Metaphysics"... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." -Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between ‘open’ and ‘closed’ texts.
Reading Theory: The Role of the Semiotician
The Sign Revisited
Two Problems in Textual Interpretation
The two sections below are two further elaborations of the theory of the interpretation of narrative texts presented in The Role of the Reader (1979a) and then developed further in Lector in Fabula (1979b). For the convenience of the reader, I am presenting here the table of levels of textual cooperation published in Eco 1979a, p. 14. In the box on discursive structures I did not sufficiently develop the voice chosen of the isotopies, since the c…
Eco and His Model Reader
Peirce et la sémantique contemporaine
Eco Umberto, Peraldi François. Peirce et la sémantique contemporaine. In: Langages, 14e année, n°58, 1980. La sémiotique de C.S Peirce, sous la direction de François Peraldi. pp. 75-91
The Theory of Signs and the Role of the Reader
La sémiologie des Mythologies
Eco Umberto, Pezzini Isabella. La sémiologie des Mythologies. In: Communications, 36, 1982. Roland Barthes. pp. 19-42
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