VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: ECO AND SELECTED OTHER WRITERS
Critical versus Fatal Theory - Norma Bouchard
Umberto Eco contra Jean Baudrillard
Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco - Peter Bondanella
Postmodern Masters
Steeled in the School of Old Acquinas - Jean-Pierre Rondas
Umberto Eco on the Shoulders of Edgar de Bruyn
PART TWO: SEMIOTICS
Reeling in the Signs - Scott Simpkins
Unlimited Semiosis and the Agenda of Literary Semiotics
The Predicament of Semiotics - Mieke Bal
The Limits of Semiotics - Patrick Colm Hogan
The Complexity of the Sign-Giving Process - Flip G Droste
In the Wake of C S Pierce and U Eco
Is Representation Really in Crisis? - Tarja Knuuttila
PART THREE: NARRATION, FORM, INTERPRETATION, READING
Eco and His Model Reader - Lubomir Dolezel
Umberto Eco - William Ray
The Reading Process as Code-Structure
Fragments and Order - Oscar S Kenshur
Two Modern Theories of Discontinuous Form
The Pragmatist's Progress - Richard Rorty
Marks and Noises and Interpretations - Peter Lamarque
PART FOUR: LITERARY CRITICISM AND TEXTUAL ANALYSES
Eco and Calvino Reading Dante - Guy P Raffa
Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Merchant's Tale - Carolyn P Collette
Open and Closed Books - John Simons
A Semiotic Approach to the History of Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Romance
The Name of the Horse - Robert L Caserio
Hard Times, Semiotics and the Supernatural
Who is the Model Reader of Delibes's Cinco Horas Con Mario? - Ann Davies
Quincunxial Sherlockholmesing in 'Grace' - Corinna Del Greco Lobner
On the Contribution of Umberto Eco to Joyce Criticism - Herman van der Heide
Reading Bond - Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott
Open and Closed Texts - Allan Luke
The Ideological/Semantic Analysis of Textbook Narratives
Eco's Stopwatch and Narrative Time in Puig, Jean-Renaud Camus and Calvino - Heidi Strebel
PART FIVE: THEORETICAL FICTIONS: INTRODUCING ECO'S NOVELS
Walking and Swimming with Umberto Eco - Guy P Raffa
Mapping the Complexity in the Fiction of Umberto Eco - Thomas J Rice
VOLUME TWO
PART SIX: THE NAME OF THE ROSE
A: Semiotic Analysis
Semiotics and Conjecture in Il nome della rosa - JoAnn Cannon
Eco's Echoes - David Richter
Semiotic Theory and Detective Practice in The Name of the Rose
Semiotics narrated: Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose - Werner H llen
Sign and De-Sign: Medieval and Modern Semiotics - Helen Bennett
B: Textual Strategies
Ec(h)o in Fabula - Walter Stephens
Naming the Rose - Steven Sallis
Readers and Codes in Umberto Eco's Novel
A Novel, Which Is a Machine for Generating Interpretations - Elizabeth Dipple
Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose
Palimpsests and Laughter - Rocco Capozzi
The Dialogical Pleasure of Unlimited Intertextuality in The Name of the Rose
C: The Historical Novel
The Invisible Worm - Carl Rubino
Ancients and Moderns in The Name of the Rose
Meta-Psychomachia in Eco's The Name of the Rose - Laurel Brasswell
Umberto Eco, Semiotics and Medieval Thought - Adele Haft, Jane White and Robert White
'Eco, Sign Theory and the Middle Ages', chapter 1 of Naming the Rose - Theresa Coletti
Eco, Medieval Sign and Modern Theory
D: Maps and Mazes
The Architecture of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose - D B Jewson
Maps, Mazes and Monsters - Adele Haft
Aspects of the Labyrinth - Rochelle Sibley
E: Gender and Difference
Resurrecting the Feminine in The Name of the Rose - Thomas Frentz
Love and Difference in The Name of the Rose - Enzo Neppi
Gaudy Rose - Teresa De Lauretis
Eco and Narcissism
F: Postmodern Themes
The Name of the Rose as a Postmodern Novel - Mark Parker
The (post)modernism of The Name of the Rose - Brian McHale
G: Other Authors and Novels
Closure and Infinite Semiosis in Mann's Doctor Faustus and Eco's The Name of the Rose - Evelyn Cobley
The Mirror and Encyclopedia - Christine de Laihacar
Borgesian Codes in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
The Literature of Appropriation - Deborah Parker
Eco's Use of Borges in Il nome della rosa
Jorge Borges, Author of The Name of the Rose - Leo Corry
Eco's Reconstruction of Aristotle's Theory of Comedy in The Name of the Rose - Leon Golden
VOLUME THREE
PART EIGHT: FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM
Pendulum Diary - William Weaver
Eco's Echoes - Linda Hutcheon
Ironizing the (Post)modern
The Demonics of 'True' Belief - Victoria V. Vernon
Treacherous Texts, Blasphemous Interpretations, and Murderous Readers
The Imaginary Universe of Umberto Eco - JoAnn Cannon
A Reading of Foucault's Pendulum
Critifictional Epistemes in Contemporary Literature - Norma Bouchard
The Case of Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum and the Text of Theory - Robert Phiddian
PART EIGHT: OTHER NOVELS
Umberto Eco's L'isola del giorno prima - Norma Bouchard
Postmodern Theory and Fictional Praxis
Baroque Shores of Eco's The Island of the Day Before - Jos[ac]e Sanjin[ac]es
The Island of the Day Before - Joris Vlasselaers
A Quest for the Semiotic Construction of a Self
Umberto Eco's Baudolino and the Language of Monsters - Cristina Farronato
PART NINE: CULTURE, COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA
Umberto Eco's Model of Communication - Gary Genosko
A Juxtapostion of Two Abductions for Studying Communication and Culture - Virginia H. Fry
Umberto Eco - David Robey
The Theory and Practice of the Media
Reconceptualizing the Encoding and Decoding 'Moments' of the Mass Communication Process - Virgina Fry and Donald H Fry
Post-Picture and Ec(h)o Effects - Nick Perry
Eco's Discovery of America or Travelling the Postmodern Way - Vanna Motta
Between Shelves and Columns - Maurizio Rebandengo
Scattered Fragments of a Semiotic Discourse
PART TEN: GENDER
Semiosis and Experience - Teresa de Lauretis
Eco, Oedipus and the 'View' from the University - Mary Wilson Carpenter
PART ELEVEN: HUMOUR
A Theory of Medieval Laughter - Cristina Farronatto
The Comic, Humour and Wit
Eco Ridens - Liberat Santoro-Brienza
PART TWELVE: PHILOSOPHY
The Riddle of Umberto Eco - Bernard Williams
Professor Whatever - Simon Blackburn
PART THIRTEEN: ETHICS
Religion and Ethics - Arnold Burns
The Eco-Martini Exchange
Conspiracy Theories and Literary Ethics - Svetlana Buym
Umberto Eco, Danilo Kis and the Protocols of Zion
