The Open Work

Umberto Eco

Translated by Anna Cancogni

Introduction by David Robey

    1. The Poetics of the Open Work

    2. Analysis of Poetic Language

    3. Openness, Information, Communication

    4. The Open Work in the Visual Arts

    5. Chance and Plot: Television and Aesthetics

    6. Form as Social Commitment

    7. Form and Interpretation in Luigi Pareyson's Aesthetics

    8. Two Hypotheses about the Death of Art

    9. The Structure of Bad Taste

    10. Series and Structure

    11. The Death of the Gruppo 63

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: The Open Work

Umberto Eco teaches at the University of Bologna and is the author of many books, including Theory of Semiotics, The Role of the Reader, and The Open Work, as well as the best-selling novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.