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In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, rosters of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes of treasure. The poetics of lists can be found from Homer to Joyce, from the treasures of Gothic cathedrals to the fantastic landscapes of Bosch and cabinets of curiosities, until we get to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst in the 20th century. This illustrated essay is accompanied by a literary anthology and a wide selection of works of art illustrating the texts presented.
By: Umberto Eco
Translated by: Alastair McEwen
Imprint: Quercus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 170mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 240mm
ISBN:
9781906694821
ISBN 10: 1906694826
Pages: 408
Publication Date: December 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Introduction. The shield and its form. The list and the catalogue. The visual list. The ineffable. Lists of things. Lists of places. There are lists and lists. Exchanges between list and form. The rhetoric of enumeration. Lists of mirabilia. Collections and treasures. The Wunderkammer. Definition by list of properties versus definition by essence. The Aristotelian telescope. Excess, from Rabelais onwards. Coherent excess. Chaotic enumeration. Mass media lists. Lists of infinites. Exchanges between practical and poetic lists. A non-normal list. Appendix.
Author Website: http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/
Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose (1982), was a huge bestseller which brought him worldwide acclaim. With his subsequent works of fiction, philosophy, literary criticism and semiotics, he has been recognised as one of Europe's finest thinkers. He is currently President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Humanistici and the University of Bologna. Alastair McEwen is the translator of some of Italy's finest living writers, including Alessandro Baricco, Antonio Tabucchi, Sandro Veronesi and Fleur Jaeggy.
'A lavish, curious catalogue about catalogues Eco has always had an eclectic, esoteric mind, and a meander around the byways of his brain is a joy indeed' Scotland on Sunday. 'A characteristic product of this extraordinary writer and polymath: learned, sparkling, insightful, provocative, packed full of intriguing and arcane information' Mary Beard in the Guardian. 'Flaunting his extraordinary erudition but flaunting it modestly ... the book is gorgeously illustrated, a beautiful object ... its creamy pages are a pleasure to turn, its various typefaces are not just elegant but appropriate to the needs of the text, its illustrations a joy to study, its translation impeccable' Gilbert Adair in the Spectator. 'This might be the perfect third book for the desert island: the only one which could be installed there along with Shakespeare and the Bible and find an equal number of fascinated, disparate readers. It is the ultimate dippable book' The Tablet.
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