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The open work

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320 pages1989Harvard UniversityISBN 9780091758967
PhilosophyLiteratureArtInformation theorySemantics (Philosophy)PoetryCriticism and interpretationAestheticsSemioticsArt, psychologyArt, philosophyArt criticismArt -- PhilosophyLiterature -- PhilosophyJoyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wakeJoyce, James, 1882-1941.Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964.Poetry.Information theory.Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941
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Depuis le début du siècle sont apparues des œuvres qui s'offrent à une pluralité d'organisations: compositions musicales dont les parties sont à enchaîner selon le choix de l'interprète, sculptures mobiles, tableaux informels, jeux sémantiques dont Finnegans Wake a fourni le modèle. Ce nouveau type d'œuvres, U. Eco le décrit, et l'enracine en le confrontant à l'ensemble de la culture contemporaine, aux sciences qui accordent une importance toujours plus grande au hasard. Il le fonde aussi, en se demandant à partir de la théorie de l'information jusqu'à quel point une œuvre peut s'ouvrir sans cesser d'être communication. -- Back cover.

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Publisher
Harvard University
Published
1989
Pages
320
ISBN
9780091758967

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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

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