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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
2014
Umberto Eco's novels are complex texts that work, that can be read and thus interpreted on several levels, including but not limited to the literary, semiotic, linguistic, philosophic, and historical. Notwithstanding the postmodern ideology of the irrelevance of the author (in terms of identity and intentionality) to a text's interpretation, Eco's novels offer another level of reading and interpreting that includes the author's own personal reading experiences. In this I would like to express the deepest appreciation to the committee members who supported me throughout this process and without whose insight, guidance, persistent help, and patience this dissertation would not have been possible. I would like to thank Professor Rocco Capozzi, who first introduced me to Umberto Eco's work and who will never really know how thankful I am not only for his insight and knowledge, but for his words of encouragement, his generous time, and for the opportunities he has provided me with throughout this process. I am indebted to Professor Andy Orchard for his vast knowledge and expertise, for tolerating my incredibly long paragraphs and my many, many apologies, and for encouraging me not only through kind words but through his awesome sense of humour. My sincere thanks to my Supervisor, Professor Linda Hutcheon, for her enthusiastic support. I greatly appreciate her indispensable suggestions and the faith she had in me and my work. A special thanks to Professor Norma Bouchard for her valuable comments and recommendations. I owe my deepest gratitude to family and friends for their endless support, but especially to my parents, Alessandro and Rosa, who believe in and are there for me always, and to whom I dedicate this work. v
Deconstructing the Narrative of the Fragmented Self in Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose"
GAP Bodhi Taru: A Global Journal of Humanities, 2023
Literary theory was pronounced dead by Derrida in the mid-1960s. Barthes declared the death of the author, almost five decades following Nietzsche’s ominous announcement that God is dead. In response literary theory continued to thrive in disparate ways from structuralist theory and psychoanalytic theory but more importantly it signalled the shift away from the writer to the reader in reader-response theory. This research paper will argue that identity, which is inextricably linked with the understanding of how the self in relation to context, undergoes a shift in responses to shifting contexts through the lens of postmodern theory. Umberto Eco's novel "The Name of the Rose" is a complex work that deals with various themes and ideas, including the concept of a fragmented self. Through an examination of the structure, setting, characters and plot of Eco’s novel, this research will attempt to elucidate the complexity of the self, arguing that as long as binaries exist, the idea of the holistic self as opposed to the fragmented self, will remain a distant dream.
Reflections of Oneself: Reconciling Identity in Carmen Laforet's _Al volver la esquina_
The Spanish author Carmen Laforet is recognized almost exclusively for her first and seminal novel Nada published in 1945. However, her posthumous Al volver la esquina (2004), the last of her five novels, is an indispensable example of the author's achievement as a psychological novelist. Yet ten years following its release, this book still remains widely overlooked. Aimed at bolstering the merit of Al volver la esquina as an essential component of Laforet's contributions as a psychological novelist, this article examines the protagonist Martín's identity search as developed through his extended self-reflection via images prompted by memory, the mirror, and cinema.
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… and the duty of every faithful monk would be to repeat every day with chanting humility the one never-changing event whose incontrovertible truth can be asserted.” (From the first two lines of The Name of the Rose) It is but relatively just and ontological that every thinking creature’s unending quest, though debatably whether by volition or revelation, to discover truth arguably either by the metaphors of fiction or by the empirical matrix of reality. And in both ways, mortal beings, his finite intellect trapped between the crevices of a feeble mind, can only find the comforting utility of words, notwithstanding its multifarious forms, to assist him in traversing one of life’s many odysseys. It is thus tantamount to claim that, in the complex compendium of discursive practices, fiction and reality compound and compliment each other, inviolably hinged together like the essence of a triangle, inevitably resulting to a journey that is obstructed by a gamut of perplexing interpretations, incorrigible ideas, indistinct cognition, illusory information, unwise counsel, confounded inspiration, unfounded assertion, meaningless names, unintelligible signs that is twin brother to incomprehensible symbols, ambiguous expressions, sophistry, rumor, not to mention lies and deceit, which, for the uninitiated, sadly concludes to making trivial nominalism a province of truth. In the midst of this convoluted incertitude, it is imperative that a traveler (writer, teacher, student, reader) must, therefore, brave the walled pathways of fiction and reality – walls fortified by words, signs and symbols. And in this cyclical world of learning and doing, stumbling upon both is a necessity: the latter being dead-ends (enigmatic, allegorical, cerebral, undetermined yet comprehensible, theoria), the former as winding hallways (tedious, verbatim, sentient, predetermined yet unpredictable, praxis); the total experience of which would give clues that would, not without challenge, lead to the heart of the matter. Truth. In this exposition, the researcher brings light on Umberto Eco’s labyrinthine semiotics just as the lamp of William of Baskerville and his faithful novice, Adso of Melk, illuminated the abbey’s labyrinthine library amidst misleading signs that lead to even puzzling directions purposely fashioned to shroud the way to a euphoric realization of truth, the epiphany of which is aggravated by being essentially tucked away between words, signs and symbols. This is an exposition that seeks to marry philosophical investigation with literary dissemination, as what was once done by the Scholastics to science and theology, under the semiotic machination of prose, narratives, discourses, tracts, imprints and metric lines. In serendipity, this exercise of configuring truth is preambular to what seems to be an uncharted concept – literary epistemology.
The aesthetics of textual production: reading and writing with Umberto Eco
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2007
In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco essentially presents an educative vision of some basic semiotic principles that infuse the textual form of a popular fictional genre—the detective story. In effect, it characterizes the postmodernization of the traditional “whodunnit” moving the genre from the realm of “the real” or the plausible into the realm of “the metaphysical” or the unthinkable. The Name of the Rose is a practical application in semiotics. Or, how the aesthetics of textual production as generated through the lexical signs and codes manifest the discursive text of a novel work. The semiotic twists and turns of the detective story facilitate this educational function and the purposeful transformation of the reader into an individual capable of appreciating and grasping the conflicting ideological viewpoints expressed through its dialogical structure. The detective genre enables the Umberto Eco to produce an educational narrative via the intricacies of plot in the detective story while teaching main aspects of semiotic theory.
Umberto Eco's Reflections on Morality in the Context of Cultural Identity
Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai, 2017
The research paper focuses on the cultural and moral identity in Umberto Eco’s reflections. Attention is paid to the selected pieces. Umberto Eco is one of the most famous contemporary writers dealing with the issues of morality in Italian society. His works are devoted to the current perception of identity in the 21st century. The authors are interested in his view on values and identity in the selected chapters of his work. The aim of the paper is to analyse the identity issue in Umberto Eco’s works.The research objectives are based on recent doubts in cultural studies whether identity is fixed and firmly defined or acquired by a human being freely. Another question is the link between these two aspects. Although the origin of the word identity comes from Latin (idem – the same), nowadays it is more understood in its diversity as linguistic, cultural, national, moral identity, etc.
Umberto Eco - Literary Encyclopedia
Literary Encyclopedia, 2019
In this encyclopedic entry, the key points of Umberto Eco's career as a philosopher, novelist and intellectual, are analysed and discussed. The article was published in Literary Encyclopedia, 01/08/2019. Link: https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1385 (accessed 13/08/2019).