SEMIOTICS, ARTS AND CULTURE IN UMBERTO ECO’S WORKS
SEMIOTICS, ARTS AND CULTURE IN UMBERTO ECO’S WORKS
Author(s): Ana-Daniela FarcașSubject(s): Cultural history, Semiotics / Semiology, History of ideas, Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, History of Art, Stylistics
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: ambiguity; self-reflexivity; signification; expression; content;
Summary/Abstract: The subject of aesthetics and that of art does not appear only in the two relatively late volumes of Umberto Eco, Storia della bellezza (2004) and Storia della bruttezza (2007), but also in the works that deal with the subject of semiotics. In the two mentioned volumes the Italian semiotician makes the correlation between the existing canons in different eras and the way in which the ideas of beauty or ugliness were reflected in philosophy, art or writings. Regarding the semiotics of art, Eco resorts to the analysis of the artistic, poetic text from the perspective of semiotic theories.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 35
- Page Range: 503-508
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Romanian