{"product_id":"9781617035746","title":"Naming the Rose: Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy, postmodernism, the apocalypse, semiotics, and literary criticism. The authors from a variety of language disciplines frequently draw on Eco's own scholarly commentaries to elucidate the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e was published in English in the United States in 1983 and remained on the best-seller list for forty weeks. Paperback publication rights brought the highest price ever paid for a translation, and in 1986 it became a major motion picture. Written by a distinguished professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, the novel was an immediate bestseller in Italy in 1980 and was subsequently translated into twenty languages to universal acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe question all this raises is, how can such a novel be so popular--a detective set in a medieval monastery, which entertains at the same time as it deals with theology, history, politics, humanism, comedy, literary criticism, and just about everything else that makes up culture and society? Is it possible that a popular piece of fiction, accessible to general readers, can also address complex and profound ideas? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume of essays on the celebrated novel is the first of several books to be written in appreciation of Eco's remarkable accomplishment. It has the distinction also of including a foreword written by Eco himself in response to the essays, certainly one of the few times when the author has agreed to critique his critics. In addition, this collection contains a bibliography of Eco criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e has something for everyone, so too does this book of critical essays. Scholar, teacher, student, and general reader alike will benefit from the light it casts on a contemporary literary phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113468248304,"sku":"9781617035746","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617035746_p0.jpg?v=1763852328","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617035746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}