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	Umberto Eco - Encyclopedia.com
		Umberto Eco, 1932-, Italian novelist, essayist, and scholar.
		Umberto Eco is a rare thing: a high priest of semiotics who sells novels by the million.
		Brilliantly becalmed The fictive and scholarly voyages of Umberto Eco
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Eco-Umbe.html (967 words)

	Umberto Eco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose and his many essays.
		Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont.
		Eco's characters partially enact literary theory, as they demonstrate the manner by which meaning is manufactured by consciousness, and how it may be impossible for any human reading to be without the pursuit of, and sometimes unconscious application of meaning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umberto_Eco (1681 words)

	Umberto Eco - Biografia
		Eco, sono dottoranda in Italianistica, la mia tesi di dottorato verte sui suoi romanzi (titolo provvisorio: Elite- und Trivialliteratur in den Romanen von Umberto ECO).
		Ho letto anche l'ultimo romanzo (Baudolino) di Umberto Eco, che può senza alcun dubbio, definirsi Sommo Autore.
		I romanzi di Eco sono decisamente fatti bene, sia dal punto stilistico che da quello puramente del racconto.
	www.italialibri.net /autori/ecou.html (5238 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - Umberto Eco (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria, Italy, in 1932.
		Eco taught in Florence from 1965 to 1969 and was a teacher at Milan Polytechnic from 1969 to 1971.
		Eco's major studies in aesthetics, literature, communication, and semiotics are Opera Aperta, A Theory of Semiotics, in which he took up and developed various lines of research; Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language; and The Limits of Interpretation.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/info_kids_eco.html (1020 words)

	Umberto Eco (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Umberto Eco speaks five languages fluently and one can see his comfort with classical Greek and Latin can be seen in his writings -- both academic and fiction.
		In 1965 Eco was elected Professor of Visual Communications in Florence and in 1966 he moved to Milan and accepted a position as a Professor of Semiotics at Milan Polytechnic.
		Umberto Eco has shown his society a new perspective on language and his society has shown him the complexity and development that exists within Italy's borders.
	www.uwgb.edu /galta/333/bios98/eco.htm (2181 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Profile: Umberto Eco
		A philosopher and writer, Umberto Eco was working in TV and was active in left-wing politics when his medieval thriller The Name of the Rose became an international bestseller.
		Eco was then already renowned in Italy as a professor of semiotics (the view of culture as an empire of signs) and newspaper columnist, with an academic reputation abroad as the author of some 20 scholarly works.
		Eco was travelling during last month's huge Rome demonstration, led by the filmmaker Nanni Moretti, against the prime minister, who is facing corruption charges in a Milan court and is accused of using parliament to get the law changed so that he will not stand trial.
	education.guardian.co.uk /academicexperts/story/0,1392,810325,00.html (3569 words)

	Umberto Eco
		Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria - the city is known for the Borsalino company, the maker of the famous hats.
		Eco's major studies in aesthetics, literature, communication and semiotics are OPERA APERTA (1962, rev. ed., 1972, 1976), A Theory of Semiotics (1976), in which he took up and developed various lines of research begun in the latter half of the 1960s, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), The Limits of Interpretation (1991).
		Eco's second novel, IL PENDOLO DI FOUCAULT (1988, Foucault's Pendulum), was a mixture of detective story, introduction to physics and philosophy, and playful analysis of madness and wisdom, which encompass the whole history of mankind.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ueco.htm (2763 words)

	Experiences in Translation - Umberto Eco
		Eco believes that "translation scholars should have had, at least once in their life, both the experience of translating and that of being translated".
		Eco has written both fairly dry scholarly work as well as several elaborate historical fictions (that have gone on to become international bestsellers), and his experiences with translators of these varied works make for interesting examples throughout the book.
		Eco's analyses of translators' choices in rendering his novels in foreign languages are particularly interesting.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/translate/ecou1.htm (637 words)

	Feature
		Eco was taking apart striptease and TV anchormen back in the late '50s, before anyone had even heard of Roland Barthes, and way before taking modern culture seriously (deconstructing The Simpsons, psychoanalyzing Tintin) became everybody's favorite pomo sport.
		Eco continues to wrap his intellect around the information revolution, but he's turning his attention from the spirit of software to technology's political implications.
		Eco: There is a risk that we might be heading toward an online 1984, in which Orwell's "proles" are represented by the passive, television-fed masses that have no access to this new tool, and wouldn't know how to use it if they did.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.03/ff_eco.html (974 words)

	ACJ Footnote: Umberto Eco
		Umberto Eco is probably the most well-known European cultural and literary theorist of the second half of the twentieth century.
		Umberto was very happy to go on talking about my book, of how glad he was to have found it, and how glad he felt that I could come and meet him in person.
		Umberto Eco said I had “got it right.” All the day to day toil and tedium of academia just faded away and the real reward of being a scholar and writer became very clear to me. Promotions, pay raises, and publications are very nice, but they all paled in comparison to this moment.
	acjournal.org /holdings/vol6/iss4/footnotes/eco.htm (3625 words)

	Serendipities by Umberto Eco - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Umberto Eco has become famous in the U.S. for his fiction-his novel The Name of the Rose spent months on best-seller lists and was eventually made into a Hollywood movie.
		Eco delineates a path through Christian thought, from the early belief that ancient Hebrew was the language closest to perfection, to the surprising belief (for Medieval Christian thinkers) that Chinese was the ideal, pre-Babel language.
		Eco's primary aim is to undermine the very idea of linguistic perfection, and to show how language can be used to graft false or illogical relationships onto unfamiliar experience.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1998winter/eco.shtml (508 words)

	Eco WWW v. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Umberto Eco is professor of semiotics, philosophy of literature at the University of Bologna in Italy.
		Eco is also a renowned historian and media critic, and he is lively engaged in the debate on how modern media and computer technology are affecting literary science, culture and society.
		In the course of the conversation it emerges that Eco is enthusiastic, but at the same time sober and critical to the functionality and value of new technology and media, both in relation to his own field of academic research and his other publishing activities.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~mryder/itc_data/eco/intro.html (409 words)

	Semiotics - Black Run (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eco thus argues that within semiotics the "real thing" must be excluded as an intrusive or jeopardizing presence which compromises the semiotic model's theoretical purity (1976: 61).
		Eco deals at length with the relation of sign vehicles to reality (illusory) and argues that the content of reality is not the thing itself but rather a cultural unit.
		Eco offers the example that if we receive a message "your house is burning down" it is a good idea to check the truth or falsity of that statement.
	omni.bus.ed.ac.uk /opsman/quality/SEM_black_run_11.htm (528 words)

	Umberto Eco vorgestellt von www.Bruder-Franziskus.de
		Umberto Eco führt in die allgemeine Lehre von den Zeichen in einer gründlichen Gesamtschau ein.
		Ecos Essayband versammelt unter verschiedenen Themenkreisen Aufsätze zur Ästhetik, Analysen diverser Phänomene der populären Kultur, kritische Textinterpretationen, philosophische und semiotische Schriften.
		Umberto Eco, bekanntlich ein überdurchschnittlich hochgebildeter Mann mit akademischen Meriten, hält in diesem Buch das wissenschaftliche Ethos hoch.
	www.bruder-franziskus.de /eco/ecobook.htm (2989 words)

	Review \| Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
		With 20 or more honorary degrees and a CV taller than most basketball players, Umberto Eco is one of the world's leaders in the field of semiotics; the study of the meaning and relationship of signs and symbols of all kinds.
		In 1971, well into a career that had included journalism and academia, Eco was made the first professor of semiotics as the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe.
		Umberto Ecos' latest book to be published in English, Five Moral Pieces, would fit more easily into the latter category than the former.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/ecofivemoral.html (639 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: A Resounding Eco -- Jun. 13, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Umberto Eco looks like a genial mentor, white-bearded and approachable, his comfortable rotundity settled deep in the softest armchair of his Milan living room.
		Eco's popular success as a writer derives from his ability to convey complex ideas simply and to let those ideas and his learned — sometimes arcane — references support his plots, rather than weigh them down.
		Eco's catholic approach is reflected by the way in which contemporary paintings on the walls of his spacious apartment are interspersed with drawings by his grandson, and the alacrity with which he leaps up to show off his antique-book collection.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901050613-1069054,00.html (839 words)

	Serendipities; Language and Lunacy; Umberto Eco
		Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the “linguistics of the lunatic,” stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world.
		Exploring the “Force of the False,” Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously “discovering” America.
		Umberto Eco is professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023111/0231111347.HTM (360 words)

	Umberto Eco and the Open Text
		Umberto Eco is Italy’s most famous living intellectual, known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before.
		Umberto Eco and the Open Text is the first comprehensive study in English of Eco’s work.
		Tracing Eco’s intellectual development from early studies in medieval aesthetics to seminal works on popular culture, postmodern fiction, and semiotic theory, he shows how Eco’s own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=526 (153 words)

	Umberto Eco Signor Zigarrenstummel - Kultur - sueddeutsche.de
		Ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für Umberto, wie Renate Eco erzählt.
		Umberto Eco hat seine Frau Anfang der 60er Jahre im Bompiani-Verlag kennen gelernt, als die diplomierte Kunsterzieherin Renate Ramge, von ersten Unterrichtserfahrungen in Berlin gelangweilt, nach Mailand geflohen war, wo sie bei Bompiani einen Job als Grafikerin fand.
		Eco, der in einer einfachen Familie in der piemontesischen Kreisstadt Alessandria aufgewachsen ist, erzählt heute, dass seine Mutter Bedenken gegen die Heirat hatte.
	www.sueddeutsche.de /kultur/artikel/95/96998/print.html (896 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Baudolino: Books: Umberto Eco
		Umberto Eco is known for creating difficult first chapters for his novels.
		Eco certainly knows how to spin a tale, and this is what he has done here, using the character of Baudolino to tell stories (or lies?) all the way through the book.
		Umberto Eco returns to the world of the middle-ages for this luminous and inspiring novel.
	www.amazon.co.uk /gp/product/0099422395?tag=technically0b-21&link_code=sp1&camp=2025&dev-t=0T1Q3KQYBRP8TS6YAFR2 (1611 words)

	Literature: On Literature by Umberto Eco - Times Online
		Eco Mark I is professor of semiotics at Bologna University and an authority on medieval scholasticism whose doctoral thesis investigated the aesthetics of St Thomas Aquinas.
		This Eco had, he confesses, always rather despised fiction writers as “prisoners of their own lies”, until, at the age of 46, he felt an unaccountable urge to attempt a novel himself.
		Besides, both Ecos are fascinated by the idea of encyclopaedic erudition, and the same learned topics that saturate the novels — theology in The Name of the Rose, secret societies and conspiracy theories in Foucault’s Pendulum, fakes and forgeries in Baudolino — obsess Eco the academic.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,2102-1426734,00.html (1676 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Joyfully surfing the waves of confusion
		Umberto Eco has been called an "intellectual bon viveur", who wines and dines his readers with choice titbits from the last few millennia.
		Joyce, argues Eco, was also busy with this enterprise, though readers who found that Finnegans Wake gave them a migraine will question Eco's claim that Joyce really wanted to "restore the conditions of a perfect language through his own personal literary invention".
		Eco is too stylish, too ecumenical, for such an exclusive commitment to a single theoretical system.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/01/02/boeco02.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/01/02/bomain.html (590 words)

	Umberto Eco
		That Eco clearly has ties between his pants and his writing, but that Eco is also a construct.
		We could email Eco and ask him, but his answer (if it would be forthcoming) would not necessarily be accurate--it would be restricted by his memory and perhaps his current attitudes.
		The Eco essay, whether based on his actual experiences or not, does point to an interesting means of entry into the discussion.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Cober/mathesis/eco.html (741 words)

	Umberto Eco: Eine Bastion der Vernunft ist 75 \| Kultur & Szene \| BR
		Und auch wenn Ecos Collage-Technik bisweilen als "Bildungsschnitzeljagd" bezeichnet wurde: In den mit Quellmaterial angereicherten Diskussionen der Mönche präsentiert er das Weltbild des katholisch-theologisch geprägten Machtgefüges - und die als Ketzerei verteufelten Gegenbewegungen - besonders lebendig.
		Eco sei die Abkürzung von "ex caelis oblatus" (vom Himmel geschenkt), die Priester seinem Großvater, einem Findelkind, als Name gegeben haben sollen - sagt Umberto Eco selbst über seine Herkunft.
		Umberto Eco hat mehr als 30 Ehrendoktortitel, mehr als 30.000 Bücher, seit mehr als 40 Jahren eine deutsche Frau und eine Wohnung in einem früheren Mailänder Hotel.
	www.br-online.de /kultur-szene/artikel/0701/05-umberto-eco-75/index.xml (932 words)

	Umberto Eco vorgestellt von www.Bruder-Franziskus.de
		Umberto Eco, der Verwandlungskünstler der Literatur, verblüfft und verzaubert seine Leser von neuem.
		Umberto Eco wurde in Deutschland vor allem durch seinen Roman "Der Name der Rose" bekannt, dessen Original 1980 in Italien erschien.
		Darin verquickt Eco in unnachahmlicher Weise eine packende Detektivgeschichte mit Betrachtungen über das Mittelalter, die Bedeutung der Klöster und der Kirche (wobei er auch nicht an Kritik spart) und schafft es mit Leichtigkeit, ebenfalls seine Belehrungen über die Zeichenhaftigkeit der Welt und unsere beschränkte Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit einfließen zu lassen.
	www.bruder-franziskus.de /eco (614 words)

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