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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Umberto Eco"”.
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Umberto Eco ja semiotiikan lupaus
… eri artikkelista, joista neljä käsittelee Umberto Econ semiotiikkaa ja myös semiotiikkaa yleensä.Viides artikkeli käsittelee sitä, mitä annettavaa semiotiikalla on filosofialle. Analysoin erityisesti Econ ensyklopedian käsitettä, jonka avulla hän on pyrkinyt lähestymään sitä jaettua …
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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco’s novels are complex texts that work, that can be read and thus interpreted on several levels, including but not limited to the literary, semiotic, linguistic, philosophic, and historical. Notwithstanding the postmodern ideology of the irrelevance of the author (in terms of identity and …
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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
… selectively as shown within the pages of Umberto Eco’s the Name of the Rose. Monastic hermeticism and esoterism also enabled the production of many religious writings that became canonical medieval texts. The religious writings of John Lydgate, whose literary texts focused mainly on the …
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(In)Determinacy: incorporating openness in programmed music and performance
… to create scores and environments. These works deconstruct and reconstruct topics of psychology, communication, and motivation. Seeking a balance between control and chaos, fragmentation is used as a method of experimentation, allowing for chance, variation, and feedback between technologies and …
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Brand Building in Three Public Libraries: Live Oak Public Libraries, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, and Richland County Public Library
… and the ideas of Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco were used to reflect on the findings.</p>
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Tal mãe, tal filha? Representação das mulheres em Gilmore Girls
… inéditos de Gilmore Girls: Um ano para recordar disponibilizados em novembro de 2016 no serviço de streaming Netflix. Para alcançarmos o nosso objetivo, foi necessário, além de assistir todo o seriado, conhecer o contexto televisivo e cultural norte-americano nos anos 2000, ano da estreia …
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Mystery: Architecture
… in another words, a labyrinth. The writer Umberto Eco has said in one of his novels: "How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths." In search of this "beauty" in the world, through this thesis I have explored and found the procedure for designing …
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Will e Lyra em fronteiras do universo de Phillip Pullman
… desse trabalho foram baseados nos autores Umberto Eco, com suas contribuições sobre as narrativas e estudos sobre a seriação nas obras literárias, Tzevetan Todorov para o entendimento sobre os gêneros literários e os discursos, Teresa Colomer para o entendimento quanto à importância e de …
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Novela histórico-posmoderna: Re-examinando el referente histórico – narrativo del Siglo de Oro en cuatro textos de Arturo Pérez-Reverte
… This section is based on the interpretations of Umberto Eco and Jean François Lyotard. The latter part of the thesis examines the mix between fiction and history and studies the author as a Spanish contemporary writer who uses a particular narrative to represent social, political and cultural …
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Serializing the Middle Ages: Television and the (Re)Production of Pop Culture Medievalisms
In his now canonical "Dreaming the Middle Ages," Umberto Eco famously quips that "it seems that people like the Middle Ages" (61). Eco's apt sentiment still strikes a resonant chord some twenty years after its publication; there is indeed something about the Middle Ages that continues to fascinate …
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On the classification of business strategy
… Amie Thomasson, inter alia), semiotics (e.g. Umberto Eco, George Lakoff) and cognitive science (especially, Susan Gelman and Douglas Medin) to produce a new, bespoke theoretical framework for the subsequent case studies of these business strategy classification schemes. It recognises the …
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Pour une sémiotique du vêtement : étude socio-idéologique du phénomène vestimentaire en contexte occidental
… fidèle à l'approche sémiotique définie par Umberto Eco. Aussi utiliserons-nous dorénavant le terme "sémiotique" (par opposition à la "sémiologie" de Barthes) conformément à la position que nous avons adoptée. Mettre sur pied une complète sémiotique du vêtement serait une entreprise …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
… between the understanding and the will. Finally, Umberto Eco's novel, The Name of the Rose, containing a semiotic-based memory labyrinth, illustrates the timelessness of the art of memory. This work raises questions about the relationship between the classical/rhetorical concept of memory and the …
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Musical Ambiguity in Analysis and Composition: Problems of Pattern, Value, Form, and Structure
… structural ambiguity, diachronic and synchronic recomposition, within a discussion of "open works" and "open systems" which draws on the work of Umberto Eco and Jacques Derrida. The conceptual relationship of diachronic composition to Aurel Stroe's "morphogenetic music" and Marc Leman's "adaptive …
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Semiotics and Christian Discipleship in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>
… In <em>The Limits of Interpretation</em>, Umberto Eco talks about what he calls "intersubjective meaning," which helps a particular interpretation of a text attain "a privilege over any other possible interpretation spelled out without the agreement of the community" (40). The particular …
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Chaos and context : speculations about the prominence of participatory art since the mid 1990s
In his essay The Poetics of the Open Work, Umberto Eco suggests that 'open work' of the 1960s, which stressed audience involvement, contingency and an anti-institutional stance, is an expression of a Quantum paradigm. Here, the irrationality and lack of order of Quantum Theory is seen as paralleled …
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Narrative space and time : the rhetoric of disruption in the short-story form
… proposed by such theorists as Gerard Genette, Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Paul Ricoeur, Peter Brooks, James Phelan, and Susan Sniader Lanser. In particular, I explore how effect operates as a predominant concern of short fiction. Short fiction is a rhetorical interaction encumbered by spatial …
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The Essentials of Narrative: A Synthesis of the West and the East
… proposed by Wayne Booth, Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Stanley Fish, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Culler and Tzvetan Todorov. The major texts discussed are Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Luo Guanzhong's Three Kingdoms, William Faulkner's Absalom. Absalom!, Cao Xueqin's …
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Mistiek in die bundel Die swart kombuis deur Sheila Cussons
… swart kombuis (1978) by Sheila Cussons. This second collection of poetry of Cussons grows out of a context of the investigation of the tension between the earthly and the metaphysical that manifested in her first publication, Plektrum (1970), to a concentrated experience of the spiritual and …
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MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a schema for creative design
… perception; 2) semiotic theory as formulated by Umberto Eco and others; and 3) Lowry Burgess' "Tools for Thought." The model makes conscious use of subconscious processes to exploit them in stimulating expanded and unique creative thought. The use of MIDI to create a unique interaction between …
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