The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce [Paperback]

Umberto Eco (Author), Ellen Esrock (Translator), David Robey (Introduction)

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About the Author

Umberto Eco teaches at the University of Bologna and is the author of many books, including Theory of Semiotics, The Role of the Reader, and The Open Work, as well as the best-selling novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Harvard University Press (April 3, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0674006356
• ISBN-13: 978-0674006355
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,559,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic.

He is the author of several bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays.

He has also written academic texts and children's books.


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