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On literature / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: Orlando : Harcourt, c2004.Description: x, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0151008124
Uniform titles:
  • Sulla letteratura. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809
LOC classification:
  • PQ 4865 E19l 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
On some functions of literature -- A reading of the Paradiso -- On the style of The communist manifesto -- The mists of the Valoi -- Wilde : parados and aphorism -- A portrait of the artist as bachelor -- Between La Mancha and Babel -- Borges and my anxiety of influence -- On Camporesi : blood, body, life -- On symbolism -- On style -- Les Sémaphores sous la Pluie -- The flaws in the form -- Intertextual irony and levels of reading -- The Poetics and us -- The American myth in three anti-American generations -- The power of falsehood -- How I write.
Summary: collection of essays and addresses includes the author's musings on Ptolemy, his reflections on the experimental writings of Borges and Joyce, and confessions about his own ambitions and anxieties.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PQ 4865 E19l 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000103150

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On some functions of literature -- A reading of the Paradiso -- On the style of The communist manifesto -- The mists of the Valoi -- Wilde : parados and aphorism -- A portrait of the artist as bachelor -- Between La Mancha and Babel -- Borges and my anxiety of influence -- On Camporesi : blood, body, life -- On symbolism -- On style -- Les Sémaphores sous la Pluie -- The flaws in the form -- Intertextual irony and levels of reading -- The Poetics and us -- The American myth in three anti-American generations -- The power of falsehood -- How I write.

collection of essays and addresses includes the author's musings on Ptolemy, his reflections on the experimental writings of Borges and Joyce, and confessions about his own ambitions and anxieties.

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