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Baudolinoby Umberto Eco, Helena Lozano MirallesISBN 8497592344 (84-9759-234-4)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudolino'Book summary:Umberto Eco regresa a la Edad Media con una fascinante historia donde se confunden y entremezclan hazañas prodigiosas e inverosímiles, propias de los libros de caballerías, con andanzas y viajes a países remotos y escenarios desconocidos, un vasto fresco narrativo en el que se conjugan elementos de la novela histórica con otros propios del relato de intriga, de aventuras o del género policíaco.
En una zona del bajo Piamonte donde, años después, surgirá Alejandría, Baudolino, un pequeño campesino, fantasioso y embustero, conquista a Federico Barbarroja y se convierte en su hijo adoptivo. Baudolino fabula e inventa, pero, casi milagrosamente, todo aquello que imagina genera Historia. Así, entre otras cosas, crea la mítica carta del Preste Juan, que prometía a Occidente un reino fabuloso, en el lejano Oriente, gobernado por un rey cristiano, una carta que ha nutrido la imaginación de muchos viajeros posteriores, entre los que se cuenta Marco Polo. Baudolino crece, nace Alejandría y, años más tarde, empujado por la invención de Baudolino, Federico emprende un viaje, con el pretexto de hacer una cruzada, para restituir al Preste Juan la más preciosa reliquia de la cristiandad, el Santo Grial. Federico morirá durante el viaje -en circunstancias misteriosas que sólo Baudolino nos revelará-, pero su ahijado continuará el viaje hacia aquel reino lejano, entre los monstruos que han habitado los bestiarios del medioevo, vicisitudes llenas de magia y hechizos durante las que vivirá un delicado episodio amoroso con la más singular de las hijas de Eva. Narrada a Nicetas Coniates, historiador bizantino, mientras Constantinopla arde saqueada por los cruzados, la historia nos reserva aún algunas sorpresas, puesto que, hablando con Nicetas, Baudolino comprende cosas que no había entendido todavía y de las que se deriva un final verdaderamente inesperado. [via]More editions of Baudolino:
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Course in General Linguisticsby Ferdinand De SaussureISBN 0070165246 (0-07-016524-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Course in General Linguistics'Book summary:The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.[via]More editions of Course in General Linguistics:
El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El pendulo de foucaultby Umberto EcoISBN 9872060940 (987-20609-4-0)
Softcover, Sudamericana
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El pendulo de foucault/Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, Ricardo Pochtar, Helena Lozano MirallesISBN 8497592670 (84-9759-267-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El pendulo de foucault/Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:En un primer momento dicha relación se mantiene estrictamente profesional, pero poco apoco van estrechándose los lazos. Editores y autores inventan juntos, por puro juego, un complejo «plan», urdido supuestamente por los templarios siete siglos atrás. Pero alguien toma demasiado en serio el juego, y todos ellos se verán inmersos en una inquietante pesadilla. [via]
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Elements of Semiologyby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521468 (0-374-52146-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Semiology'Book summary:"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction[via]More editions of Elements of Semiology:
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The Empire of Signsby Roland BarthesISBN 0374522073 (0-374-52207-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empire of Signs'Book summary:With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.[via] 
Faith in Fakes: Essaysby Umberto EcoISBN 0436140888 (0-436-14088-8)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 015603297X (0-15-603297-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:as brilliant and quirky as the name of the rose, as mischievous and wide-raning....a virtuoso performance."the san francisco chroniclethree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything umberto eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised [via]
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Nome Della Rosa'Book summary:"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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Il Pendolo Di Foucaultby Umberto EcoISBN 884524749X (88-452-4749-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Pendolo Di Foucault'Book summary:...questo romanzo magico sulla magia, questo romanzo misterioso sul segreto e sulla creatività della finzione, questo romanzo tumultuoso, questo romanzo luminoso su un mondo sotterraneo...Jacques Le Goff, L'espresso [via]
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Image, Music, Textby Stephen Heath, Roland BarthesISBN 0006348807 (0-00-634880-7)
Hardcover, Fotana
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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Image, Music, Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521360 (0-374-52136-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policyby Howard DickmanISBN 0812690087 (0-8126-9008-7)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Isla Del Dia De Antes: Laura EsquivelISBN 8426412386 (84-264-1238-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognitionby Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwenISBN 015601159X (0-15-601159-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition'Book summary:Describing Umberto Eco as a writer is like describing the platypus as an animal. What do readers expect when they see the author's name on a book jacket? It's a tricky question to answer, given his range and versatility: he has produced studies of semiotics, children's books, medieval history, essays on contemporary culture, and, of course, novels--most notably The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before. So first, a word of warning. Anyone familiar with Eco the novelist or essayist might well be dismayed by Kant and the Platypus, for this new book returns to his preoccupations of the 1960s and 1970s--to semiotics and cognitive semantics. As such, it can be a daunting volume (the initial chapter, for example, riffs on the numerous philosophical concepts of being). And second, a word of encouragement: this is a wonderful engagement with the issues of language itself. Even as he beckons the reader into one linguistic thicket after another, Eco always keeps a commonsensical perspective, using stories to explicate the knottiest concepts.
Why did Marco Polo describe the rhinoceros as a type of unicorn? Why couldn't 18th-century observers figure out how to classify the duck-billed platypus? Given a dictionary or encyclopedia definition of a mouse, how easy would it be to identify one if we had never seen one before? These are some of the examples that Eco uses to explore the ways in which we see and describe the world--the ways, that is, in which cultures develop taxonomies. If you want to know "why we can tell an elephant from an armadillo," or why mirrors do not in fact reverse images, this book will tell you. In fact, it will also tell you why you know what I am talking about when I say "this book." Got it? No? Then get it. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246442 (88-452-4644-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Isola Del Giorno Prima'Book summary:Nell'estate del 1643 un giovane piemontese naufraga, nei mari del sud, su di una nave deserta. Di fronte a lui un'Isola che non può raggiungere. Intorno a lui un ambiente apparentemente accogliente. Solo, su un mare sconosciuto, Roberto de la Grive vede per la prima volta in vita sua cieli, acque, uccelli, piante, pesci e coralli che non sa come nominare. Scrive lettere d'amore, attraverso le quali si indovina la sua storia: una lenta e traumatica iniziazione al mondo secentesco della nuova scienza, della ragion di stato, di un cosmo in cui la terra non è più al centro dell'universo. Roberto vive la sua vicenda tutta giocata sulla memoria e sull'attesa di approdare a un'Isola che non è lontana solo nello spazio, ma anche nel tempo. [via]
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The Limits of Interpretationby Umberto EcoISBN 0253208696 (0-253-20869-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Limits of Interpretation'Book summary:In this new collection of essays, Eco focuses on what he calls the limits of interpretation, or, as he once noted in another context, "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation". Readers of Eco's other work will find here all the ingredients with which they have become familiar--vast learning, an agile and exciting mind, good humor and a brilliance of insight. [via]
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Bookby Walker PercyISBN 0312253990 (0-312-25399-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book'Book summary:The late Walker Percy's mordant contribution to the self-help book craze of the 1980s deals with the heavy abstraction of the Western mind and speculates about why writers may be the most abstracted and least grounded of all. (Before taking up novel writing, Percy was a medical doctor who became a patient in the very institution where he had worked.) The book disappeared for a time. Now it's back in print. Take the quizzes in it, then take a walk--you need to be back in the world before you write another word. [via]
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- Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book: ISBN 0374191654 (0-374-19165-4)
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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Otherby Walker PercyISBN 0312254016 (0-312-25401-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Mythologiesby R. BarthesISBN 0374521506 (0-374-52150-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:L'Antiquité avait son Oedipe, le Grand Siècle son roi Soleil, et voilà que Barthes donne à la France de l'après-guerre ses nouveaux emblèmes : la DS Citroën, le Tour de France, le steak frites... Tous objets d'un culte bourgeois, ils deviennent de véritables mythes pour une société qui finit par se penser à travers eux. Mais si Barthes se penche avec la rigueur de l'ethnologue sur ces nouveaux mythes, c'est pour mieux en dénoncer les mécanismes : l'idéologie dominante ne s'inventerait ainsi des valeurs que pour légitimer des "normes bourgeoises" qui en manquent singulièrement...
Écrites quotidiennement de 1954 à 1956, ces mythologies déploient une écriture fine, cultivée et juste, à lire comme autant de petites chroniques savoureuses. Toutefois, on les retiendra avant tout pour l'actualité de leurs propos : sur le même modèle, on trouverait sans peine de nouvelles mythologies, qui ne seraient sans doute pas très éloignées de celles que Barthes, en son temps, mettait en évidence. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Softcover, Hill and Wang - Mythologies: ISBN 022400610X (0-224-00610-X)
Hardcover, J. Cape - Mythologies: ISBN 0809071932 (0-8090-7193-2)
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Mythologiesby Yves Bonnefoy, Wendy Doniger, Gerald HonigsblumISBN 0226064530 (0-226-06453-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:"The appearance of this monumental work in a beautifully produced and richly illustrated English edition is a publishing event of considerable significance."Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review[via]
"The almost 100 contributors combine, with characteristic precision and elan, the arts of science and poetry, of analysis and translation. The result is a treasury of information, brilliant guesswork, witty asides, and revealing digressions. This is a work of genuine and enduring excitement."Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science MonitorMore editions of Mythologies:
The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Name Of The Rose'Book summary:"A brilliantly conceived adventure into another time" (San Francisco Chronicle) by critically acclaimed author Umberto Eco. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey ("where the most interesting things happen at night") armed with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious curiosity. [via]
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The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Textsby Umberto EcoISBN 025320318X (0-253-20318-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts'Book summary:"... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics
"... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library Journal
In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts.
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S/Zby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521670 (0-374-52167-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S/Z'Book summary:S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzac's novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning. [via]
S/Zby Honore De Balzac, Roland BarthesISBN 0809083752 (0-8090-8375-2)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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The Search for the Perfect Languageby Umberto Eco, James Fentress, Jacques Le GoffISBN 0631205101 (0-631-20510-1)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for the Perfect Language'Book summary:The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history.
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence.
The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority.
To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History.
The paperback edition of this book is not available through Blackwell outside of North America. [via]
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Languageby Umberto EcoISBN 0253203988 (0-253-20398-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Semiotics: The Basicsby DANI CHANDLERISBN 0415363756 (0-415-36375-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Semiotics: The Basics'Book summary:Using jargon-free language and lively, up-to-date examples, Semiotics: The Basics demystifies this highly interdisciplinary subject. Along the way, the reader will find out:
* what is a sign?
* which codes do we take for granted?
* what is a text?
* how can semiotics be used in textual analysis?
* who were Saussure, Peirce, Barthes and Jakobson - and why are they important?
Features include a glossary of key terms and realistic suggestions for further reading. There is also a highly-developed and long-established online version of the book at: www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B [via]-
Serendipities: Language & Lunacyby Umberto EcoISBN 0156007517 (0-15-600751-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serendipities: Language & Lunacy'Book summary:The multitalented Umberto Eco--novelist, critic, and literary theorist--turns his attention to the history of linguistics. In linguistics, as in the other sciences, Eco explains, there are serendipities: "Even the most lunatic experiments can produce strange side effects, stimulating research that proves perhaps less amusing but scientifically more serious." In his earlier book The Search for the Perfect Language, for example, he discussed the project of discovering the language spoken before the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Although misconceived, the project by chance led to advances in mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, and even world peace--the goal of artificial languages like Esperanto and the unfortunately named Volapük. In the five essays in Serendipities, Eco explores some related serendipitous episodes in the history of linguistics; as always, his characteristic blend of playfulness and erudition is bound to be irresistible to any lover of language.
The first essay, "The Force of Falsity," discusses false documents with momentous repercussions, such as the letter of Prester John, which encouraged European explorers and conquerors to seek its supposed author, the Christian ruler of a distant and fantastically wealthy land. In the second essay, Eco considers Dante's relation to the idea of the perfect language. The third essay discusses early misinterpretations of Egyptian, Chinese, and Mexican ideograms. The Jesuit savant Athanasius Kircher, for example, devoted page upon page to mystical interpretations of a hieroglyph that later turned out to represent nothing more profound than the Greek letter lambda. The remaining two essays are devoted to single authors: "The Language of the Austral Land" concerns Gabriel de Foigny's instructive parody of contemporary attempts to devise the perfect language, while "The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre" endeavors, with indifferent success, to make sense of the counterrevolutionary Savoyard's musings on the nature of language. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Structuralism and Semioticsby Terence HawkesISBN 0415321530 (0-415-32153-0)
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Structuralism and Semioticsby Not AvailableISBN 0415025257 (0-415-02525-7)
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The Subject of Semioticsby Kaja SilvermanISBN 0195031784 (0-19-503178-4)
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A Theory of Semioticsby Umberto EcoISBN 0253202175 (0-253-20217-5)
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Travels in Hyperreality: Essaysby Umberto EcoISBN 0156913216 (0-15-691321-6)
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Writing Degree Zero, and Elements of Semiologyby Roland BarthesISBN 0224022679 (0-224-02267-9)
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Baudolinoby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414486 (84-264-1448-6)
Hardcover, Lumen Editorial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudolino'Book summary:Umberto Eco regresa a la Edad Media con una fascinante historia donde se confunden y entremezclan hazañas prodigiosas e inverosímiles, propias de los libros de caballerías, con andanzas y viajes a países remotos y escenarios desconocidos, un vasto fresco narrativo en el que se conjugan elementos de la novela histórica con otros propios del relato de intriga, de aventuras o del género policíaco.
En una zona del bajo Piamonte donde, años después, surgirá Alejandría, Baudolino, un pequeño campesino, fantasioso y embustero, conquista a Federico Barbarroja y se convierte en su hijo adoptivo. Baudolino fabula e inventa, pero, casi milagrosamente, todo aquello que imagina genera Historia. Así, entre otras cosas, crea la mítica carta del Preste Juan, que prometía a Occidente un reino fabuloso, en el lejano Oriente, gobernado por un rey cristiano, una carta que ha nutrido la imaginación de muchos viajeros posteriores, entre los que se cuenta Marco Polo. Baudolino crece, nace Alejandría y, años más tarde, empujado por la invención de Baudolino, Federico emprende un viaje, con el pretexto de hacer una cruzada, para restituir al Preste Juan la más preciosa reliquia de la cristiandad, el Santo Grial. Federico morirá durante el viaje -en circunstancias misteriosas que sólo Baudolino nos revelará-, pero su ahijado continuará el viaje hacia aquel reino lejano, entre los monstruos que han habitado los bestiarios del medioevo, vicisitudes llenas de magia y hechizos durante las que vivirá un delicado episodio amoroso con la más singular de las hijas de Eva. Narrada a Nicetas Coniates, historiador bizantino, mientras Constantinopla arde saqueada por los cruzados, la historia nos reserva aún algunas sorpresas, puesto que, hablando con Nicetas, Baudolino comprende cosas que no había entendido todavía y de las que se deriva un final verdaderamente inesperado. [via]More editions of Baudolino:
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La Isla Del Dia De Antesby Umberto Eco, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497593847 (84-9759-384-7)
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La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Islandby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414397 (84-264-1439-7)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Island'Book summary:Tras el éxito de El nombre de la rosa y El péndulo de Foucault , Umberto Eco vuelve a la novela para contarnos la historia de Roberto de la Grive, un joven piamontés que en el verano de 1963 llega como náufrago a una nave abandonada en los Mares del Sur, y en la embarcación solo encuentra animales desconocidos y extrañas máquinas. Confinado en este exiguo espacio, Roberto nos pone al corriente de su pasado y nos lleva hasta la época renacentista para hacernos partícipes de duelos y lances amorosos, de especulaciones intelectuales entorno a los cálculos que falicitaron en aquel entonces la navegación y los artilugios que permitieron al hombre ir avanzando en el descubrimiento de tierras lejanas. Novela filosófica y a la vez de aventuras, La isla del día de antes se suma felizmente a la gran tradición de Swift y Voltaire para indagar con el poder de la imaginación los fallos y pecados de nuestra realidad. [via]
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Kant Y El Ornitorrincoby Umberto EcoISBN 8426412653 (84-264-1265-3)
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La Misteriosa Llama De La Reina Loanaby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414915 (84-264-1491-5)
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La Misteriosa Llama De La Reina Loana / The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanaby Humberto EcoISBN 9685958130 (968-5958-13-0)
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto Eco, Ricardo PochtarISBN 8426411487 (84-264-1148-7)
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El pendulo de foucaultby Umberto EcoISBN 8484502058 (84-8450-205-8)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Baudolinoby Umberto EcoISBN 8845251950 (88-452-5195-0)
Softcover, Fabbri - RCS Libri
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudolino'Book summary:In quella zona del basso Piemonte dove, anni dopo, sorgerà Alessandria, Baudolino, un piccolo contadino fantasioso e bugiardo, conquista Federico Barbarossa e ne diventa figlio adottivo. Baudolino affabula e inventa ma, quasi per miracolo, tutto quello che immagina produce Storia. Così, tra le altre cose, costruisce la mitica lettera del Prete Gianni, che prometteva all'Occidente un regno favoloso, nel lontano Oriente, governato da un re cristiano, che ha mosso la fantasia di molti viaggiatori successivi, compreso Marco Polo. Baudolino cresce, Alessandria nasce e, anni dopo, spinto dall'invenzione di Baudolino, Federico parte, col pretesto di una crociata, per andare a riconsegnare al Prete Gianni la più preziosa reliquia della cristianità. Morirà lungo il viaggio, in circostanze misteriose che solo Baudolino ci svela, ma il suo figlioccio continuerà il viaggio verso quel regno lontano, tra i mostri che hanno abitato i bestiari del Medio Evo, vicende mirabolanti, e una delicata vicenda d'amore con la più singolare fra tutte le figlie di Eva. Raccontata a Niceta Coniate, storico bizantino, mentre Costantinopoli brucia e i crociati la saccheggiano, la storia riserva ancora alcune sorprese perché, parlando con Niceta, Baudolino comprende cose che non aveva ancora capito, da cui un finale veramente inatteso. Avventura picaresca, romanzo storico in cui emergono in germe i problemi dell'Italia contemporanea, storia di un delitto impossibile, racconto fantastico, teatro di invenzioni linguistiche esilaranti, questo libro celebra la forza del mito e dell'utopia. [via]
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246345 (88-452-4634-5)
Softcover, Rl Libri
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Il Pendolo Di Foucaultby Umberto EcoISBN 8845215911 (88-452-1591-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845228134 (88-452-2813-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Kant E L'ornitorincoby Umberto EcoISBN 8845228681 (88-452-2868-1)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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La Misteriosa Fiamma Della Regina Loana: Romanzo Illustratoby Umberto EcoISBN 8845214257 (88-452-1425-7)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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La Ricerca Della Lingua Perfetta Nella Cultura Europeaby Umberto EcoISBN 8842042870 (88-420-4287-0)
Hardcover, Laterza
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Cours De Linguistique Generaleby Ferdinand De Saussure, Tullio De Mauro, Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye, Albert RiedlingerISBN 2228500704 (2-228-50070-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cours De Linguistique Generale'Book summary:Le Cours de Saussure constitue un ouvrage clé pour quiconque s'intéresse au langage et aux langues ; il est considéré comme fondateur de la linguistique moderne. C'est là que se trouvent exprimés pour la première fois certains des concepts les plus féconds de la linguistique : oppositions binaires (langue/parole, signifiant/signifié, synchronie/diachronie), arbitraire du signe. Ces concepts seront largement affinés ou contestés, et nourriront la réflexion de générations de linguistes.
Avec la reproduction de l'édition originale de 1916 établie par les élèves de Saussure d'après leurs notes, le lecteur trouvera un appareil critique complet dû à Tullio de Mauro, dont une biographie de Saussure et des notes. Les commentaires sont particulièrement instructifs, car ils font apparaître les violentes critiques qui ont suivi la publication du Cours, ainsi que l'influence considérable qu'il a exercée et continue d'exercer. Ce livre peut être lu sans connaissances préalables en linguistique. --Guillaume Segerer [via]
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