Many early modern writers were fascinated by the notion of the Adamic language in which Adam named the animals, a language that many believed could express the essence of things perfectly. Umberto Eco has displayed a ...

In this paper I analyse the results of a paradigmatic shift in the history of experimental writing. Drawing from the historiographical structure of natural sciences proposed by Thomas S. Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific ...

Umberto Eco clearly states the concept of semantic universals in a short essay in the form of letter included in „Che cosa crede chi non crede” from 1996 (Polish translation „When another enters the stage” in Eco’s “Five ...

The object of this analysis are the currently available literary works of Umberto Eco’s as different manifestations of the so-called professorenroman (academic novel). Using the concept of the professorenroman as a ...

Umberto Eco’s aesthetic theory shows a great continuity and coherence through decades. Both in Opera aperta (a pre-semiotic work published in 1962) and in Lector in fabula, inferential activity is at the very center of ...

The article is devoted to the analysis and interpretation of Umberto Eco’s Tre Racconti. Each of the stories is considered in the context of its relationship with the structure and themes of traditional fairy tales and ...