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Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
Umberto Eco, Italian literary critic and semiotician best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, a murder mystery set in a 14th-century Italian monastery but, in essence, a questioning of ‘truth’ from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.
Umberto Eco (b. 1932–d. 2016) was an Italian author and theorist whose contributions to the academic and creative zeitgeists ripple into inter- and multidisciplinary fields including, but not limited to, semiotics, linguistics, communication theory, narrative theory, politics, pop culture, history, and aesthetic theory.
Interview with the late Italian novelist Umberto Eco, author behind the bestselling novel ‘The Name of the Rose’. With great warmth and humour Eco shares how he has always taken...
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary critic, semiotician and philosopher. He wrote novels such as The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and The Prague Cemetery, as well as many essays on semiotics, literature and culture.
Feb 19, 2016 · In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
The Name of the Rose ( Italian: Il nome della rosa [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 year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.
Nov 15, 2017 · Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose,The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the ...
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 - 26 February 2016) was an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose], combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.
Feb 20, 2016 · Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday ...
