Mon. January 05, 2009
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News24
January 5, 2009
... US actor (1931--);
Umberto Eco, Italian writer (1932--);
Charlie Rose, US talk show host/journalist (1942--); Diane Keaton, US actress (1946--). ...
Times Online
January 5, 2009
The author Umberto Eco's best-known work is the medieval mystery The Name of the Rose, which he began writing in 1978 "because I felt like poisoning a monk" ...
Read It Here
January 5, 2009
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality by
Umberto Eco is a superbly entertaining beginner's guide to
semiotics. To what? Semiotics is the study and ...
EasyBourse.com
January 2, 2009
It was signed by a list of literary luminaries such as the
UK's Salman Rushdie and
Italy's
Umberto Eco. "The presumption is that Mr. Liu has been arrested ...
Taipei Times
December 31, 2008
Last week, a group of prominent figures - including academics and writers Salman Rushdie and Umberto Eco - sent an open letter to Chinese President Hu ...
The Southern
December 28, 2008
... editor of the prestigious series, announced recently the selection of one philosopher with greater-than-average name recognition -- Umberto Eco. ...
Kansas City Star
December 28, 2008
I have interrogated
Umberto Eco, Alice Walker, John Updike and
Maureen Dowd. Therefore, I deserve to sit for 30 minutes a week in my easy chair, ...
The Southern
December 28, 2008
... editor of the prestigious series, announced recently the selection of one philosopher with greater-than-average name recognition -- Umberto Eco. ...
KUAR
December 26, 2008
Umberto Eco says that ugliness is surprisingly complex and fascinating. Alex Kuczynski is a columnist for the
New York Times and the author of "Beauty ...
MarketWatch (press release)
December 24, 2008
Salmon Rushdie, the Pakistani-born novelist who was the subject of a clerical fatwa, and Italian novelist Umberto Eco also signed. KINGSTON, Tenn., Dec. ...
Monsters and Critics.com
December 23, 2008
More than 150 leading US and European-based intellectuals, including award-winning writers Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Seamus Heaney and Hari Kunzru, ...
China Digital Times
December 23, 2008
jambands.com
December 23, 2008
The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco David Gans has been touring quite extensively in the last decade or so with a rich canon of tunes stretching from ...
Vendée Globe
December 23, 2008
The concept so grabbed author Umberto Eco, that it was in fact the very scenario dealt with in his novel, The Island of the Day Before. ...
BBC News
December 23, 2008
Among those demanding his release are British writer Salman Rushdie and Italian novelist
Umberto Eco. In responsne,
China's foreign ministry said the ...
The Southern
December 23, 2008
... editor of the prestigious series, announced recently the selection of one philosopher with greater-than-average name recognition -- Umberto Eco. ...
Human Rights Watch (press release)
December 22, 2008
... legal experts, and writers and Nobel prize winners, including Salman Rushdie,
Umberto Eco,
Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Carlo Ginzburg,
Wole Soyinka, ...
Here Is The City
December 21, 2008
He enjoys playing golf, reading books by
Umberto Eco, singing "Copacabana" in the shower and at karaoke bars, and occasionally updating his
blog about ...
Washington Post
December 20, 2008
... Grass) and some of the most distinguished international writers alive, including, among many others, Umberto Eco, Margaret Drabble and AB Yehoshua. ...
Pegasus News
December 20, 2008
Past
Authors have included Alice Walker,
Umberto Eco, Julia Alvarez, Walter Mosley, and others of national and international acclaim. ...
Irish Times
December 18, 2008
Umberto Eco memorably described the series once as "electrifying mediocrity". A huge hit at home and sold to 108 countries, the reaction to Tappert's death ...
Here Is The City
December 16, 2008
He enjoys playing golf, reading books by
Umberto Eco, singing "Copacabana" in the shower and at karaoke bars, and occasionally updating his
blog about ...
The Age
December 16, 2008
Ask her for a highlight and she mentions the buzz of getting the self-described "three musketeers" - Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa - on ...
CommanderBond.net
December 16, 2008
With essays by
Umberto Eco, Tony Bennett, Tara Brabazon, Toby Miller and
Jim Leach, among others, Lindner illustrates not only how the Bond character has ...
Hollywood Reporter
December 16, 2008
But Tappert's fans -- and they included Pope
John Paul II and writer
Umberto Eco -- saw something more. In an essay on "Derrick" and its phenomenal success ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 14, 2008
... to the postmodern Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco, almost as prolific a writer of books as he is a collector of them. ...
Victoria News
December 11, 2008
In
Umberto Eco's brilliant political treatise, "Five Moral Pieces," he warns us about ideologues who are anti-
culture and hostile to disagreement and ...
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (Pressemitteilung)
December 10, 2008
Umberto Eco's notion of a so-called model reader, along with analyses of rhetorical strategies and play with presupposed competences, reveal how Karásek's ...
Pressrelations (Pressemitteilung)
December 9, 2008
... roles that facilitate both a "straight" and a "queer" reading. Umberto Eco's notion of a so-called model reader, along with analyses of rhetorical strat...
guardian.co.uk
December 8, 2008
... to Joseph Roth's What I Saw (too depressing for winter) via Umberto Eco's The Island Of The Day Before (it's a trade paperback; I hate those) ... ...
Blogcritics.org
December 8, 2008
Here's a few stragglers, however: By Umberto Eco It'sa beguiling idea: Take eternal and irreconcilable theories of art and aesthetics - buttressed with ...
defpro
December 5, 2008
... on the banks of the river Tago, inside a convent-castle which may well have provided Umberto Eco with inspiration for The Name of the Rose (indeed some ...
Wanted in Rome
December 4, 2008
Among the many writers presenting books are some of
Italy's most popular
authors, such as
Umberto Eco, Dacia Maraini, Andrea Camilleri and Federico Moccia. ...
China Post
December 2, 2008
Others, including
Italy's
Umberto Eco, donated original manuscripts for auction. Garcia Marquez donated a signed and illustrated copy of his autobiography ...
Washington Post Blogs
December 1, 2008
We wouldn't know Gunter Grass, Octavio Paz, Jose Saramago, Wyslava Szymborska, Umberto Eco, Amos Oz, etc., etc., if it weren't for a very perspicacious ...
Here Is The City
November 30, 2008
He enjoys playing golf, reading books by
Umberto Eco, singing "Copacabana" in the shower and at karaoke bars, and occasionally updating his
blog about ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
November 28, 2008
... Perez-Reverte - a member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003 - responded with an anecdote, saying that when Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" was ...
The Age
November 21, 2008
The Italian writer Umberto Eco helped spread the word of its idiosyncrasies when he ran to almost a page of hyperbole in trying to capture its essence for ...
Times Higher Education
November 20, 2008
Rather than adopting today's standard model of a learning resource centre, Stem Architects were inspired by the secret monastic library in Umberto Eco's ...
Shaebia
November 19, 2008
There book entitled Foucault's Pendulum, written by the famous Italian writer Umberto Eco, is very similar to Beyene Haile's writings in that it is not an ...
