Book #26862

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Umberto Eco

Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Edition: First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author
Size: 8vo; [ii]. 60, [2] pages
Publisher: Toronto: Guernica / Istituto Italiano Di Cultura, 1996.
ISBN: 9781550710632

Price: $230.00

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A fine Guernica publication in unread, as new condition. Signed and inscribed (to Gregg) by author Umberto Eco on the half-title page. Rare.

Umberto Eco's three chapter publication in Italian, English and French." It is impossible to think about the present or the future of universities without taking into account the fact that universities live in a world dominated by mass media." - Eco wrote this short essay when he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Laurentian University.

Author Bio

Eco, Umberto

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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