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  • Reading Eco

    An Anthology

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    "[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price that Eco and his readers must/may pay for the enormous pleasure and intellectual stimulus of being Eco and being with Eco." —The ComparatistUmberto Eco is, quite simply, a genius. He is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular ... Read more

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    An Anthology

    Edited by Rocco Capozzi ...
    "[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price that Eco and his readers must/may pay for the enormous pleasure and intellectual stimulus of being Eco and being with Eco." —The ComparatistUmberto Eco is, quite simply, a genius. He is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular ... Read more

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