Travels in Hyperreality
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Umberto Eco
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-24 - Publisher: HMH

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A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected
Inventing the Enemy
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Umberto Eco
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-04 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his “profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes” (Bookl
We Need New Names
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: NoViolet Bulawayo
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-21 - Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books

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Finalist for the Booker Prize: the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America (New York Times Book Review
Kant and the Platypus
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Umberto Eco
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: HMH

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How do we know a cat is a cat . . . and why do we call it a cat? An “intriguing and often fascinating” look at words, perceptions, and the relationship betw
Reading Fiction with Lucian
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Karen ní Mheallaigh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.