"Come stroll with me through the leafy glades of narrative ..." With Umberto Eco as companion and guide, who could resist such an invitation? ... we accompany him as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, ma…
"In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader--his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie, for Little Red Riding Hood, Agatha Christie, Agent 007 and all his ladies. We …
"Come stroll with me through the leafy glades of narrative ..." With Umberto Eco as companion and guide, who could resist such an invitation? In this exhilarating book, we accompany him as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Eco draws us in by means of a no…
This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory.
This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to…
This dissertation studies the French Romantic writers who pioneered travel to the Levant in the early nineteenth century in order to understand the motivations that drove them and the methods by which they were able to travel in an era before organized tourism. The study argues …
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from ma…
