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On the other hand
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 Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 6:48 am Post subject: Umberto Eco is dead |
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Italian author Umberto Eco, who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his bestselling historical novel The Name of the Rose, has died.
Spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Eco's American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, told The Associated Press that Eco died Friday at age 84. She could not immediately confirm the cause of death or where he died.
Author of a wide range of books, Eco was fascinated with the obscure and the mundane, and his books were both engaging narratives and philosophical and intellectual exercises. The bearded, heavy-set scholar, critic and novelist took on the esoteric theory of semiotics, the study of signs and symbols in language; on popular culture icons like James Bond; and on the technical languages of the Internet.
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Never read any of his books. Saw The Name Of The Rose shortly after it came out. Wouldn't care to see it again.
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yodanole
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Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| I liked what I did read of his writing. |
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FMPJ
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Excellent writer and even better as a scholar of semiotics. RIP indeed. |
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yodanole
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Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:28 pm Post subject: a reference |
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"Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, the late Italian novelist Umberto Eco proposed that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication.[2] Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, however. They examine areas belonging also to the life sciences—such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoosemiotics)."
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