Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco
In this exhilarating book, we accompany Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in with a novelists techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.
Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous..The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions. * The Atlantic *
Reading [these chapters] is indeed like wandering in the woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, "How to Be a Good Reader," for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has you eating out of his hand by the end of them. -- Susan Salter Reynolds * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
The dim boundary between the imaginary and the real is Eco's home terrain...He is a foxy gamesman, using enchanted woods as a flexible image for narrative texts, and mustering a playful array of allusions from The Three Musketeers to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. -- Robert Taylor * Boston Globe *
[This] dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and narrative theory into intellectual entertainment. -- John O'Reilly * Independent *
Reading [these chapters] is indeed like wandering in the woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, "How to Be a Good Reader," for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has you eating out of his hand by the end of them. -- Susan Salter Reynolds * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
The dim boundary between the imaginary and the real is Eco's home terrain...He is a foxy gamesman, using enchanted woods as a flexible image for narrative texts, and mustering a playful array of allusions from The Three Musketeers to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. -- Robert Taylor * Boston Globe *
[This] dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and narrative theory into intellectual entertainment. -- John O'Reilly * Independent *
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was an acclaimed writer, philosopher, medievalist, and semiotician. In addition to dozens of nonfiction books, he authored seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, which has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than fifty million copies worldwide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674810518 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674810511 |
| Title | Six Walks in the Fictional Woods |
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| Series | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1998-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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