Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco is affiliated with the following schools: University of Turin, University of Bologna

Q: What Are Umberto Eco's Academic Contributions?

Umberto Eco has made the following academic contributions: The Prague Cemetery, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Numero Zero, Misreadings, Lector in fabula, Kant and the Platypus, The Name of the Rose, The Infinity of Lists, Sulla letteratura, Story of Time, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, Serendipities, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, On Ugliness, La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea, La bustina di minerva, How to Travel with a Salmon, Dire quasi la stessa cosa, De la estupidez a la locura, Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Belief or Nonbelief?, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, Apocalypse Postponed

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Umberto Eco

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#44

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#164

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Literary Criticism

#19

World Rank

#29

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Writing

#30

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#61

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PhD Philosophy University of Turin

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According to Wikipedia, Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. 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.

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Umberto Eco's Published Works

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A theory of semiotics (1976) (3127)
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1980) (1178)
Semiotics and the philosophy of language (1985) (1111)
The Open Work (1989) (703)
Travels in Hyperreality (1986) (643)
Lector in fabula (1989) (639)
The Search for the Perfect Language (1997) (516)
Travels in Hyperreality (1986) (458)
The Role of the Reader (1979) (395)
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (2000) (374)
Theory of Codes (1976) (344)
The Subject of Semiotics (1976) (323)
The Limits of Interpretation (1990) (308)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992) (294)
The Future of the Book (1996) (254)
Kant and the platypus : essays on language and cognition (2000) (236)
Art and beauty in the Middle Ages (1986) (184)
The frames of comic ‘freedom’ (1984) (172)
The sign of three : Dupin, Holmes, Peirce (1983) (156)
薔薇の名前 = The name of the rose (2004) (150)
Postscript to The name of the rose (1984) (148)
Experiences in translation (2000) (146)
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation (2003) (142)
Reflections on The Name of the Rose (1989) (140)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994) (137)
Travels in hyperreality : essays (1987) (125)
"Casablanca": Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage (1985) (119)
The Myth of Superman@@@The Amazing Adventures of Superman (1972) (113)
The Myth of Superman (1972) (110)
Foucault's Pendulum (1988) (106)
Faith in Fakes : Travels in Hyperreality (1995) (105)
Meaning and Mental Representations (1988) (99)
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998) (88)
Travels in hyper reality : essays (1986) (86)
Kant and the Platypus (1999) (84)
On the Medieval Theory of Signs (1989) (80)
History of Beauty (2004) (80)
Semiotics of Theatrical Performance (1977) (78)
Function and Sign: the Semiotics of Architecture Semiotics and Architecture (2014) (76)
The Infinity of Lists (2009) (69)
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (1988) (65)
2. Function and Sign: Semiotics of Architecture (1986) (63)
The Scandal of Metaphor: Metaphorology and Semiotics (1983) (59)
Critique of the Image (1982) (53)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: The pragmatist's progress (1992) (53)
The Island of the Day Before (1994) (53)
Can Television Teach (1993) (52)
Peirce's Notion of Interpretant (1976) (51)
The Theory of Signs and the Role of the Reader (1981) (50)
Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and Modern Theory@@@The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas@@@Le Signe: Histoire et analyse d'un concept@@@Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages (1986) (49)
On beauty : [a history of western idea] (2010) (42)
The Story of Time (1999) (41)
La Production des signes (1992) (38)
Faith in Fakes (1986) (37)
A Componential Analysis of the Architectural Sign /Column/ (1972) (36)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: Overinterpreting texts (1992) (31)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: Interpretation and history (1992) (28)
A Guide to the Neo-Television of the 1980s (1990) (28)
The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce@@@On the Medieval Theory of Signs@@@Writing Joyce: A Semiotics of the Joyce System. Advances in Semiotics (1989) (28)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Between author and text (1992) (28)
The infinity of lists : from Homer to Joyce (2009) (27)
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism (2007) (26)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: In defence of overinterpretation (1992) (26)
On the ontology of fictional characters: A semiotic approach (2009) (25)
From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation (2014) (25)
Confessions of a Young Novelist (2011) (24)
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (1994) (24)
Two Problems in Textual Interpretation (1980) (23)
The Influence of Roman Jakobson on the Development of Semiotics (1987) (22)
18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation (2014) (21)
The Middle Ages of James Joyce: The Aesthetics of Chaosmos (1989) (21)
Five Moral Pieces (2001) (21)
On animal language in the medieval classification of signs (1989) (20)
Conversations About the End of Time (1998) (19)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts (2001) (19)
De Interpretatione, or the Difficulty of Being Marco Polo [On the Occasion of Antonioni's China Film] (1977) (19)
The Prague Cemetery (2010) (18)
Inventing the enemy and other occasional writings (2013) (17)
Meaning and denotation (1987) (17)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: Reply (1992) (17)
Cinco escritos morales (1998) (17)
Le mythe de Superman (1976) (16)
How to Write a Thesis (2015) (16)
On Semiotics and Immunology (1988) (15)
The mysterious flame of Queen Loana : an illustrated novel (2005) (15)
Innovation & repetition: between modern & postmodern aesthetics (2005) (14)
Guessing: from Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes (1981) (13)
The Book of Legendary Lands (2013) (13)
Metaphor, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia (1984) (12)
Cinque Scritti Morali (1997) (11)
ON SOME FUNCTIONS OF LITERATURE (2008) (10)
Reading My Readers (1992) (10)
Faith in fakes : essays (1986) (9)
the sign revisited (1980) (8)
On the contribution of film to semiotics (1977) (8)
Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia (1984) (8)
Proposals for a History of Semiotics (1984) (8)
Where Are You?: An Ontology of the Cell Phone (2014) (8)
‘Dreaming of the Middle Ages’: An unpublished fragment (1987) (8)
The bomb and the general (1989) (7)
Instructional semantics for presuppositions (1987) (7)
Inventing the Enemy (2012) (7)
On fish and buttons: Semiotics and philosophy of language (1984) (7)
Giorgio Prodi and the lower threshold of semiotics (2018) (7)
Social Life as a Sign System (2017) (7)
Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the (Post) Modern@@@Foucault's Pendulum (1992) (6)
Serendipities: Language & Lunacy (1998) (6)
Report on Session 3: Literature and Arts (1988) (6)
Hypermedia for Teaching and Learning: A Multimedia Guide to the History of European Civilization (MuG). (1992) (5)
Interview with Umberto Eco (2013) (5)
Tolerance and the intolerable (1994) (5)
Signification and Denotation from Boethius to Ockham (1984) (5)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: Palimpsest history (1992) (5)
Waiting for the Millennium (2003) (5)
Le poetiche di Joyce (1982) (4)
On Translating Queneau’s Exercices de style into Italian (2002) (4)
Greimassian Semantics and the Encyclopedia (1989) (4)
The Cult of Vespa (2001) (3)
A Semiotic Approach to Acculturation and Participation (1972) (3)
Theory of Sign production (1976) (3)
1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth (2014) (3)
Kant a ptakopysk (2011) (3)
Between La Mancha and Babel (1997) (3)
The Ars Magna by Ramon Llull (2017) (3)
A Theory Of Semiotics Advances In Semiotics By Umberto Eco (2022) (3)
De internet a Gutemberg (2000) (3)
Drift and Unlimited Semiosis (1990) (3)
The Original and the Copy (1992) (3)
The Three Astronauts (1989) (3)
Some Remarks on a New Realism (2015) (3)
Belief or Nonbelief?: A Confrontation (1996) (3)
Signification and Communication (1976) (2)
Horns, beans and insteps: guessing from Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes (1981) (2)
Universidad y "mass media" (2004) (2)
The picture history of inventions from plough to Polaris (1963) (2)
Not such Wicked Leaks (2018) (2)
The experience of translation (2006) (2)
FOREWORD:: TRUTH AND THE MOBILE PHONE (2014) (2)
5 Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages (2014) (2)
Introduction: Toward a logic of culture (1976) (1)
Apocalypse Postponed: Essays by Umberto Eco (1994) (1)
The University and the Mass Media (1994) (1)
Interview: Umberto Eco (1987) (1)
10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism (2014) (1)
1. Writing from Left to Right (2011) (1)
Television and Aesthetics (2017) (1)
Conventions of the Natural and the Naturalness of Conventions@@@A Theory of Semiotics (1977) (1)
Robert Wilson : Mr Bojangles' memory og son of fire (1991) (1)
Reading Theory: The Role of the Semiotician@@@A Theory of Semiotics@@@The Role of the Reader (1980) (1)
11 The Language of the Austral Land (1998) (1)
When the other appears on the scene (2002) (1)
Talking of Joyce (1998) (1)
The birth of ethics (1997) (1)
14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) (2014) (1)
On the Shoulders of Giants (2019) (1)
Intensional Man Vs Extensional Man: A Difficult Dialogue (1984) (1)
Hypermedia for teaching and learning (abstract): a multimedia guide to the history of European civilization (1992) (0)
El cerebro, el universo e ideas (2015) (0)
La sémiologie des Mythologies in Roland Barthes. (1982) (0)
The Limits of Semiotics@@@The Limits of Interpretation (1993) (0)
37. Semantics, pragmatics, and text semiotics (1987) (0)
Turning Back The Clock (2008) (0)
Semiotics Unlimited@@@A Theory of Semiotics (1976) (0)
3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis (2014) (0)
Reflections on pain (2016) (0)
The Predicament of Semiotics@@@The Limits of Interpretation (1992) (0)
2. Author, Text, and Interpreters (2011) (0)
6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana (2014) (0)
12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre (1998) (0)
On Meaning, Logic and Verbal Language (1997) (0)
"Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages", Umberto Eco, Milan 1987 : [recenzja] / C. N. (2003) (0)
The Image of Vanitas: Efflorescence and Evanescence (1999) (0)
Conspiracy Theories and Literary Ethics (2016) (0)
11 settembre: attentato alla civiltà dell'Occidente (2001) (0)
11. A Photograph (2015) (0)
Silence Is a Decree All Should Fear (2006) (0)
In Eco's Labyrinth (1991) (0)
3. FROM MARCO POLO TO LEIBNIZ Stories of Intellectual Misunderstandings (1998) (0)
9 Toward a History of Denotation (2014) (0)
Animal language before Sebeok (2018) (0)
The Ecological Imperative: Elements of Nature in Late Twentieth-Century Art (2002) (0)
Meaning and Interpretation (1992) (0)
7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah (2014) (0)
April 2013 - Book Chat Booklist Good, better, best: Bestselling reads through the years. (2013) (0)
Hard and Soft Communication (2021) (0)
2. LANGUAGES IN PARADISE (1998) (0)
New this Month…. Books on CD (2011) (0)
23. WHODUNIT? THE CASE OF DENOTATION AND/OR SIGNIFICATION (1988) (0)
Joyce, Semiosis and Semiotics (1992) (0)
The resurgence of educommunicative (2015) (0)
On the medieval theory of signs, coll. « Foundations of Semiotics » (1992) (0)
8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts (2014) (0)
The View from Davos (2008) (0)
The Dog Schema (2021) (0)
17 Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day (2014) (0)
FOREWORD: TRUTH AND THE MOBILE PHONE (2020) (0)
Escribir para vender (1997) (0)
15 The Threshold and the Infinite Peirce and Primary Iconism (2014) (0)
Theory Of Semiotics Umberto Eco (2019) (0)
Semiotics and Semantics@@@A Theory of Semiotics (1978) (0)
Semiotics and Interpretation: Before or After the Fact?: Umberto Eco's Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language@@@Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1985) (0)
Analytic Philosophy and European Culture – Filosofia analitica e cultura europea (2016) (0)
Incontro = Encounter = Rencontre (1996) (0)
Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the ModernFoucault's Pendulum (1992) (0)
DETECTION, ACTIVISM, AND WRITING: TABUCCHI'S LA TESTA PERDUTA DIDAMASCENO (2002) (0)
Sorry, Mr. Homer, your epic is marvelous, but it's just not right for us as publishers (1993) (0)
Croce, i´intuition et le méli-mélo. (1999) (0)
1.THE FORCE OF FALSITY (1998) (0)
13 On the Silence of Kant (2014) (0)
4. My Lists (2011) (0)
Italian Re Evolution : Design in Italian Society in the Eighties (1982) (0)
A little bit of luck (1998) (0)
Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the Modern (1992) (0)
3. Some Remarks on Fictional Characters (2011) (0)
16 The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic (2014) (0)
The People's Comic Book; Red Women's Detachment, Hot on the Trail and Other Chinese Comics. (1973) (0)
Fyra moraliska betraktelser (1999) (0)
4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies) (2014) (0)
La Universidad y los mass media (2004) (0)
A rose by any other name (1995) (0)
Language and the History of Thought@@@The Search for the Perfect Language (1996) (0)
Prospector's Luck (1998) (0)
2 Metaphor as Knowledge Aristotle’s Medieval (Mis)Fortunes (2014) (0)
May the Force Be With You (2004) (0)
The Cathedral, the Flutist, and Interpretation (1991) (0)
Commercial song 1 (2017) (0)
Intentio Lectoris (2019) (0)

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