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Open Work, Paperback by Eco, Umberto; Cancogni, Anna, ISBN 0674639766, ISBN-13 9780674639768, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art

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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674639766

ISBN-139780674639768

eBay Product ID (ePID)767755

Product Key Features

Book TitleOpen Work

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1989

TopicCriticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory, European / Italian

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, Psychology

AuthorUmberto Eco

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN88-021399

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal111/.85

Table Of Content1. The Poetics of the Open Work 2. Analysis of Poetic Language 3. Openness, Information, Communication 4. The Open Work in the Visual Arts 5. Chance and Plot: Television and Aesthetics 6. Form as Social Commitment 7. Form and Interpretation in Luigi Pareyson's Aesthetics 8. Two Hypotheses about the Death of Art 9. The Structure of Bad Taste 10. Series and Structure 11. The Death of the Gruppo 63 Notes Index

SynopsisThis book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text., More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process between reader and text. The questions Umberto Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general. This entirely new edition, edited for the English-language audience with the approval of Eco himself, includes an authoritative introduction by David Robey that explores Eco's thought at the period of The Open Work , prior to his absorption in semiotics. The book now contains key essays on Eco's mentor Luigi Pareyson, on television and mass culture, and on the politics of art. Harvard University Press will publish separately and simultaneously the extended study of James Joyce that was originally part of The Open Work , entitled The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce . The Open Work explores a set of issues in aesthetics that remain central to critical theory, and does so in a characteristically vivid style. Eco's convincing manner of presenting ideas and his instinct for the lively example are threaded compellingly throughout. This book is at once a major treatise in modern aesthetics and an excellent introduction to Eco's thought.

LC Classification NumberBH39.E29213 1989