Umberto Eco

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1) Postscript to The name of the rose

Author

Eco, Umberto

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Pub. Date

[1984]

Language

English

2) Art and beauty in the Middle Ages

Author

Eco, Umberto

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

1986.

Language

English

3) The picture history of inventions: from plough to Polaris

Author

Eco, Umberto

Publisher

Macmillan

Pub. Date

1963.

Language

English

4) How to write a thesis

Author

Eco, Umberto

Publisher

The MIT Press

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

5) From the tree to the labyrinth: historical studies on the sign and interpretation

Author

Eco, Umberto

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

6) Serendipities: language & lunacy

Author

Eco, Umberto

Series

Italian Academy lectures

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

1998.

Language

English

7) Confessions of a young novelist

Author

Eco, Umberto

Series

The Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

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Umberto Eco, author of "The Name of the Rose," looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction.

8) Chronicles of a liquid society

Author

Eco, Umberto

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

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Collects short essays from the author that reflect on the changing modern world, touching on such topics as popular culture, politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners.

9) History of beauty

Publisher

Rizzoli

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

10) On ugliness

Publisher

Rizzoli

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

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In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty, " the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others.