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9780156607520

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  • ISBN13:

    9780156607520

  • ISBN10:

    0156607522

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-05-01
  • Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

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Summary

Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. A scintillating collection of writings (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Author Biography

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. He is the author of numerous essays and novels, including the bestselling The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and Baudolino.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. 1
Granitap. 7
Fragmentsp. 15
The Socratic Stripp. 27
Regretfully, We Are Returning Your...p. 33
Esquisse d'un nouveau chatp. 47
The Latest from Heavenp. 53
The Thingp. 62
Industry and Sexual Repression in a Po Valley Societyp. 69
The End Is at Handp. 94
Letter to My Sonp. 117
Three Eccentric Reviewsp. 126
The Discovery of Americap. 135
Make Your Own Moviep. 145
The Phenomenology of Mike Bongiornop. 156
My Exagminationp. 165
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