Faith in fakes: Secrets, lies, and conspiracies in Umberto Eco’s writings
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Title: | Faith in fakes: Secrets, lies, and conspiracies in Umberto Eco’s writings |
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Authors: | Rodríguez-Ferrándiz, Raúl |
Research Group/s: | Industrias Culturales Hoy: Producción, Difusión, Gestión y Consumo de Productos Culturales en la Era de la Información (IICCXXI) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Comunicación y Psicología Social |
Keywords: | Umberto Eco | Lie | Secrecy | Aesthetics | Rhetoric | Semiotics |
Knowledge Area: | Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad |
Issue Date: | 19-Jan-2019 |
Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton |
Citation: | Semiotica. 2019, 2019(227): 169-186. doi:10.1515/sem-2017-0137 |
Abstract: | This paper offers a re-reading of the works of Umberto Eco, be they academic, journalistic or literary, with a pseudologic tone: his desire to investigate the mechanisms of lying, and their relation with fiction, falsification, error, secrecy, and conspiracy. The study will review some of his main academic texts in the fields of semiotics, rhetoric, and aesthetics, and will make some references to his recent novels and essay compilations, as well as offer an explanation of how the evolution of his thoughts takes a pessimistic turn. The face of the lie, which initially was aesthetic consolation and consumerist delusion, and then a game of intelligence, a creative stimulus and an interpretive challenge, changes when serves the purpose of extortion, manipulation, and war. In short, it could be argued that Eco became increasingly disappointed by deceptions, and lost faith in fakes and forgeries. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/88570 |
ISSN: | 0037-1998 (Print) | 1613-3692 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1515/sem-2017-0137 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0137 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - IICCXXI - Artículos de Revistas |
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