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Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

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Foucault's Pendulum (original Italian title: Il pendolo di Foucault ) is a 1988 novel by Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco . This literary-work article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of literary-work articles ,...


Author Biography

Name: Umberto Eco
Birth Date: January 5, 1932
Place of Birth: Alessandria, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: scholar, professor, novelist

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Biography of Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect his many intellectual interests and wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, literature, medieval history, religion, and politics. His academic work in semiotics, the science of...
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Biography of Umberto Eco
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The long list of Umberto Eco's books and publications contains only three novels, Il nome della rosa (1980; translated as The Name of the Rose, 1983), Il pendolo di Foucault (1988; translated as Foucault's Pendulum, 1989), and L'isola del giorno prima (1...
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Biography of Umberto Eco
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As a semiotician, novelist, medieval scholar, journalist, and parodist, Umberto Eco has produced an amazingly diverse and influential body of work since the 1950s, and he is certainly one of the most prominent public intellectuals in the world. Yet, in E...


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Foucault’s Pendulum Information
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Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988; the translation into English by William Weaver appeared a year later. Foucault's Pendulum was...


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Science Weekly
Pendulums.
04/11/2008: 2,273 words, approx. 8 pages
Pendulums Background When most people think of pendulums, they think of the clock. But, behind our modern-day uses of the pendulum lies an area of science with roots dating back to the seventeenth century. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The pendulum has...
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Logistics Management (Highlands Ranch, Co.)
The pendulum at rest?
04/01/2007: 838 words, approx. 3 pages
By Wayne Bourne Historically, negotiating leverage has favored either carriers or shippers in fairly predictable intervals like a pendulum, moving from one camp to the other. It rests with one side for a while before eventually swinging back during the inevitable market...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Linda Hutcheon
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In the following essay, Hutcheon traces the narrative development of irony in Foucault's Pendulum, highlighting the novel's representation of semiotic differences between modern and postmodern literary traditions.
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Critical Essay by Norma Bouchard
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In the following essay, Bouchard outlines the narrative development of the major points of Eco’s theoretical stance against deconstruction in Foucault's Pendulum, which, she says, ranks among the most representative works of the “critifictional” tradition.
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Critical Essay by JoAnn Cannon
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In the following essay, Cannon examines the central theme of Foucault's Pendulum in cultural and theoretical contexts of Eco's life and work, deconstructing the way the novel questions the main tenor of the author's thought.
 


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