From the tree to the labyrinth historical studies on the sign and interpretation / Umberto Eco ; translated by Anthony Oldcorn.
| Author/creator | Eco, Umberto |
| Other author | Oldcorn, Anthony. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014. |
| Description | vi, 633 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Dall'albero al labirinto. English |
| Contents | from the tree to the labyrinth -- Metaphor as knowledge: Aristotle's medieval (mis)fortunes -- From metaphor to analogia entis -- The dog that barked (and other zoosemiotic archarologies) -- Fakes and forgeries in the Middle Ages -- Jottings on Beatus of Liébana -- Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah -- The use and interpretation of medieval texts -- Toward a history of denotation -- On Llull, Pico, and Llullism -- The language of the Austral land -- The linguistics of Joseph de Maistre -- On the silence of kant -- Natural semiosis and the word in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) -- The threshold and the infinite: Peirce and primary iconism -- The definitions in Croce's aesthetic -- Five senses of the word "Semantics," from Bréto the present day -- Weak thought versus the limits of interpretation. |
| General note | "Originally published as Dall'albero al labirinto: Studi storici sul segno e l'interpretazione, by Umberto Eco, © 2007 RCS Libri S.p.A." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-612) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013015258 |
| ISBN | 9780674049185 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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