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Download or read book Reading Eco written by Rocco Capozzi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines some of Eco's writings together with secondary sources in order to arrive at a more comprehensive critique of his literary theories and his notions of general semiotics as a cognitive social/cultural practice. Articles on literary semiotics, which comprise the second section, focus primarily on Eco, Peirce, Bakhtin, Greimas, Borges, and Derrida. Part three examines aspects of Eco's fiction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR