On Literature
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On Literature (2003) is a book by Umberto Eco.
From the publisher:
- Italian literary theorist and novelist Umberto Eco includes nine essays in this title concerning: the general significance of literature; major authors of the Western canon; the poetic qualities of Dante's "Paradiso"; the style of the "Communist Manifesto"; Joyce's views on language; and more
TOC
On Some Functions of Literature
A Reading of the Paradiso
On the Style of The Communist Manifesto
The Mists of Valois
Wilde: Paradox and Aphorism
On Oscar Wilde, aphorisms and paradoxes
People would be happier if kings were philosophers and philosophers were kings (Plutarch).
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. (Frederick The Great)
A Portrait of the Artist as Bachelor
Between La Mancha and Babel
Borges and My Anxiety of Influence
On Camporesi: Blood, Body, Life
On Symbolism
On Style
Les Sémaphores sous la Pluie
The Flaws in the Form
Intertextual Irony and Levels of Reading
The Poetics and Us
Excerpt:
- "the fundamental problem of all philosophies of language, namely, whether metaphor is a departure from underlying literalness or the birthplace of every degree zero of writing."
American Myth in Three Anti-American Generations
The Power of Falsehood
How I Write
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