Umberto Eco

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Umberto Eco

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

Why Is Umberto Eco Influential?

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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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Published Papers

A theory of semiotics (1976) (3093)
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1980) (1165)
Semiotics and the philosophy of language (1985) (1096)
The Open Work (1989) (698)
Travels in Hyperreality (1986) (639)
Lector in fabula (1989) (638)
The Search for the Perfect Language (1997) (514)
Travels in Hyperreality (1986) (458)
The Role of the Reader (1979) (394)
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (2000) (373)
Theory of Codes (1976) (336)
The Subject of Semiotics (1976) (322)
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) (233)
Art and beauty in the Middle Ages (1986) (184)
The frames of comic ‘freedom’ (1984) (169)
The sign of three : Dupin, Holmes, Peirce (1983) (156)
Postscript to The name of the rose (1984) (146)
薔薇の名前 = The name of the rose (2004) (146)
Experiences in translation (2000) (146)
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation (2003) (142)
Reflections on The Name of the Rose (1989) (137)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994) (137)
Travels in hyperreality : essays (1987) (124)
"Casablanca": Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage (1985) (117)
The Myth of Superman@@@The Amazing Adventures of Superman (1972) (112)
The Myth of Superman (1972) (110)
Foucault's Pendulum (1988) (107)
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) (85)
Kant and the Platypus (1999) (83)
On the Medieval Theory of Signs (1989) (80)
History of Beauty (2004) (79)
Semiotics of Theatrical Performance (1977) (78)
Function and Sign: the Semiotics of Architecture Semiotics and Architecture (2014) (74)
The Infinity of Lists (2009) (69)
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (1988) (65)
2. Function and Sign: Semiotics of Architecture (1986) (61)
The Scandal of Metaphor: Metaphorology and Semiotics (1983) (58)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: The pragmatist's progress (1992) (53)
Critique of the Image (1982) (53)
The Island of the Day Before (1994) (53)
Can Television Teach (1993) (52)
Peirce's Notion of Interpretant (1976) (51)
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)
The Theory of Signs and the Role of the Reader (1981) (49)
On beauty : [a history of western idea] (2010) (42)
The Story of Time (1999) (40)
Faith in Fakes (1986) (38)
La Production des signes (1992) (36)
A Componential Analysis of the Architectural Sign /Column/ (1972) (36)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: Overinterpreting texts (1992) (31)
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: Interpretation and history (1992) (28)
A Guide to the Neo-Television of the 1980s (1990) (28)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Between author and text (1992) (28)
The infinity of lists : from Homer to Joyce (2009) (27)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: In defence of overinterpretation (1992) (26)
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism (2007) (26)
From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation (2014) (24)
Confessions of a Young Novelist (2011) (24)
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (1994) (24)
On the ontology of fictional characters: A semiotic approach (2009) (23)
Two Problems in Textual Interpretation (1980) (23)
The Middle Ages of James Joyce: The Aesthetics of Chaosmos (1989) (21)
The Influence of Roman Jakobson on the Development of Semiotics (1987) (21)
Five Moral Pieces (2001) (21)
18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation (2014) (21)
De Interpretatione, or the Difficulty of Being Marco Polo [On the Occasion of Antonioni's China Film] (1977) (19)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts (2001) (19)
On animal language in the medieval classification of signs (1989) (19)
Conversations About the End of Time (1998) (19)
The Prague Cemetery (2010) (18)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: Reply (1992) (17)
Cinco escritos morales (1998) (17)
Le mythe de Superman (1976) (16)
Meaning and denotation (1987) (16)
Inventing the enemy and other occasional writings (2013) (16)
On Semiotics and Immunology (1988) (15)
The mysterious flame of Queen Loana : an illustrated novel (2005) (15)
How to Write a Thesis (2015) (14)
Innovation & repetition: between modern & postmodern aesthetics (2005) (13)
The Book of Legendary Lands (2013) (13)
Guessing: from Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes (1981) (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) (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)
On the contribution of film to semiotics (1977) (8)
Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia (1984) (8)
the sign revisited (1980) (8)
Inventing the Enemy (2012) (7)
Giorgio Prodi and the lower threshold of semiotics (2018) (7)
Social Life as a Sign System (2017) (7)
Instructional semantics for presuppositions (1987) (7)
The bomb and the general (1989) (7)
Serendipities: Language & Lunacy (1998) (6)
Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the (Post) Modern@@@Foucault's Pendulum (1992) (6)
Report on Session 3: Literature and Arts (1988) (6)
On fish and buttons: Semiotics and philosophy of language (1984) (6)
Waiting for the Millennium (2003) (5)
Tolerance and the intolerable (1994) (5)
Interpretation and overinterpretation: Palimpsest history (1992) (5)
Signification and Denotation from Boethius to Ockham (1984) (5)
Interview with Umberto Eco (2013) (5)
Hypermedia for Teaching and Learning: A Multimedia Guide to the History of European Civilization (MuG). (1992) (5)
Greimassian Semantics and the Encyclopedia (1989) (4)
On Translating Queneau’s Exercices de style into Italian (2002) (4)
Le poetiche di Joyce (1982) (4)
The Ars Magna by Ramon Llull (2017) (3)
Theory of Sign production (1976) (3)
The Three Astronauts (1989) (3)
Kant a ptakopysk (2011) (3)
The Cult of Vespa (2001) (3)
De internet a Gutemberg (2000) (3)
A Theory Of Semiotics Advances In Semiotics By Umberto Eco (2022) (3)
1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth (2014) (3)
Some Remarks on a New Realism (2015) (3)
A Semiotic Approach to Acculturation and Participation (1972) (3)
Drift and Unlimited Semiosis (1990) (3)
Belief or Nonbelief?: A Confrontation (1996) (3)
The Original and the Copy (1992) (3)
Between La Mancha and Babel (1997) (3)
Signification and Communication (1976) (2)
The picture history of inventions from plough to Polaris (1963) (2)
Horns, beans and insteps: guessing from Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes (1981) (2)
Universidad y "mass media" (2004) (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)
1. Writing from Left to Right (2011) (1)
Conventions of the Natural and the Naturalness of Conventions@@@A Theory of Semiotics (1977) (1)
Television and Aesthetics (2017) (1)
Apocalypse Postponed: Essays by Umberto Eco (1994) (1)
The birth of ethics (1997) (1)
On the Shoulders of Giants (2019) (1)
The University and the Mass Media (1994) (1)
Talking of Joyce (1998) (1)
Introduction: Toward a logic of culture (1976) (1)
10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism (2014) (1)
14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) (2014) (1)
Interview: Umberto Eco (1987) (1)
Intensional Man Vs Extensional Man: A Difficult Dialogue (1984) (1)
Robert Wilson : Mr Bojangles' memory og son of fire (1991) (1)
11 The Language of the Austral Land (1998) (1)
Not such Wicked Leaks (2018) (1)
Reading Theory: The Role of the Semiotician@@@A Theory of Semiotics@@@The Role of the Reader (1980) (1)
When the other appears on the scene (2002) (1)
4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies) (2014) (0)
The Predicament of Semiotics@@@The Limits of Interpretation (1992) (0)
Intentio Lectoris (2019) (0)
Prospector's Luck (1998) (0)
"Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages", Umberto Eco, Milan 1987 : [recenzja] / C. N. (2003) (0)
In Eco's Labyrinth (1991) (0)
Turning Back The Clock (2008) (0)
La sémiologie des Mythologies in Roland Barthes. (1982) (0)
11 settembre: attentato alla civiltà dell'Occidente (2001) (0)
Semiotics Unlimited@@@A Theory of Semiotics (1976) (0)
Croce, i´intuition et le méli-mélo. (1999) (0)
7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah (2014) (0)
May the Force Be With You (2004) (0)
FOREWORD: TRUTH AND THE MOBILE PHONE (2020) (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)
Reflections on pain (2016) (0)
The Dog Schema (2021) (0)
The People's Comic Book; Red Women's Detachment, Hot on the Trail and Other Chinese Comics. (1973) (0)
6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana (2014) (0)
Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the Modern (1992) (0)
Italian Re Evolution : Design in Italian Society in the Eighties (1982) (0)
2. Author, Text, and Interpreters (2011) (0)
11. A Photograph (2015) (0)
1.THE FORCE OF FALSITY (1998) (0)
Sorry, Mr. Homer, your epic is marvelous, but it's just not right for us as publishers (1993) (0)
16 The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic (2014) (0)
El cerebro, el universo e ideas (2015) (0)
Joyce, Semiosis and Semiotics (1992) (0)
3. Some Remarks on Fictional Characters (2011) (0)
23. WHODUNIT? THE CASE OF DENOTATION AND/OR SIGNIFICATION (1988) (0)
Silence Is a Decree All Should Fear (2006) (0)
Animal language before Sebeok (2018) (0)
The resurgence of educommunicative (2015) (0)
9 Toward a History of Denotation (2014) (0)
On Meaning, Logic and Verbal Language (1997) (0)
Analytic Philosophy and European Culture – Filosofia analitica e cultura europea (2016) (0)
Hard and Soft Communication (2021) (0)
A little bit of luck (1998) (0)
Fyra moraliska betraktelser (1999) (0)
3. FROM MARCO POLO TO LEIBNIZ Stories of Intellectual Misunderstandings (1998) (0)
Escribir para vender (1997) (0)
New this Month…. Books on CD (2011) (0)
17 Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day (2014) (0)
8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts (2014) (0)
La Universidad y los mass media (2004) (0)
The Limits of Semiotics@@@The Limits of Interpretation (1993) (0)
37. Semantics, pragmatics, and text semiotics (1987) (0)
The Cathedral, the Flutist, and Interpretation (1991) (0)
Commercial song 1 (2017) (0)
4. My Lists (2011) (0)
12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre (1998) (0)
A rose by any other name (1995) (0)
Meaning and Interpretation (1992) (0)
The View from Davos (2008) (0)
April 2013 - Book Chat Booklist Good, better, best: Bestselling reads through the years. (2013) (0)
Language and the History of Thought@@@The Search for the Perfect Language (1996) (0)
2 Metaphor as Knowledge Aristotle’s Medieval (Mis)Fortunes (2014) (0)
On the medieval theory of signs, coll. « Foundations of Semiotics » (1992) (0)
13 On the Silence of Kant (2014) (0)
The Image of Vanitas: Efflorescence and Evanescence (1999) (0)
15 The Threshold and the Infinite Peirce and Primary Iconism (2014) (0)
3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis (2014) (0)
Theory Of Semiotics Umberto Eco (2019) (0)
Semiotics and Semantics@@@A Theory of Semiotics (1978) (0)
The Ecological Imperative: Elements of Nature in Late Twentieth-Century Art (2002) (0)
Incontro = Encounter = Rencontre (1996) (0)
Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the ModernFoucault's Pendulum (1992) (0)
2. LANGUAGES IN PARADISE (1998) (0)
DETECTION, ACTIVISM, AND WRITING: TABUCCHI'S LA TESTA PERDUTA DIDAMASCENO (2002) (0)
Conspiracy Theories and Literary Ethics (2016) (0)
Hypermedia for teaching and learning (abstract): a multimedia guide to the history of European civilization (1992) (0)

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