Misreadings

Misreadings
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0156607522
ISBN-13 : 9780156607520
Rating : 4/5 (520 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Misreadings by : Umberto Eco

Download or read book Misreadings written by Umberto Eco and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playful parodies by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Here, Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, overacademic, and overintellectual, and along the way makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde in art in criticism.


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