He also published Come si fa una tesi di laurea (1977 How to Write a Thesis), a practical guide to writing and research. From that work he went on to explore other areas of communication and semiotics in such volumes as A Theory of Semiotics (1976) and Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), both written in English. 1972, 1976 The Open Work), which suggests that in much modern music, Symbolist verse, and literature of controlled disorder ( Franz Kafka, James Joyce) the messages are fundamentally ambiguous and invite the audience to participate more actively in the interpretive and creative process. His initial studies and researches were in aesthetics, his principal work in that area being Opera aperta (1962 rev. He then taught in Florence and Milan and finally, in 1971, assumed a professorial post at the University of Bologna. from the University of Turin (1954), Eco worked as a cultural editor for Italian Radio-Television and lectured at the University of Turin (1956–64). Umberto Eco, (born January 5, 1932, Alessandria, Italy-died February 19, 2016, Milan), Italian literary critic, novelist, and semiotician (student of signs and symbols) best known for his novel Il nome della rosa (1980 The Name of the Rose).Īfter receiving a Ph.D.

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