Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was an internationally acclaimed writer, philosopher, medievalist, and professor, and the author of the best-selling novels Foucault’s Pendulum, The Name of the Rose, and The Prague Cemetery, as well as children’s books.His numerous nonfiction books include Confessions of a Young Novelist, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, and The Open Work (all from Harvard).
Author | Umberto Eco |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Linguistics |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Publication date
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1994 |
Pages | 153 pp. |
ISBN | 0-674-81050-3 |
OCLC | 29184587 |
808.3 20 | |
LC Class | PN3355 .E28 1994 |
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a non-fiction book by Umberto Eco. Originally delivered at Harvard for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1992 and 1993, the six lectures were published in the fall of 1994.
Overview[edit]
The book derives its title from Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium but Eco also cites Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler as inspiration because the novel 'is concerned with the presence of the reader in the story', which was also the subject of the lectures and book.
Eco's general concerns, besides that of literary criticism, fall under the subjects of techniques of fiction and narration or rhetoric.
Table of contents[edit]
- 'Entering the Woods'
- 'The Woods of Loisy'
- 'Lingering in the Woods'
- 'Possible Woods'
- 'The Strange Case of Rue Servandon'
- 'Fictional Protocols'
External links[edit]
- Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, Harvard University Press, ISBN0-674-81051-1
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