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The Open Work
Umberto Eco
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Description for The Open Work
Paperback. Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art. Translator(s): Cancogni, Anna. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674639768
SKU
V9780674639768
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Ref
99-1
About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna and the author of many books, including Foucault's Pendulum.
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