Socially symbolic acts : the historicizing fictions of Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi

This Book Discusses Issues Of Broad Cultural Consequence By Examining The Work Of Three Of Italy's Most Prominent Living Novelists, Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, And Antonio Tabucchi. The Introductory Chapter Continues A Discussion Of Some Of The Topics Already Broached In The Author's Narrating Postmodern Time And Space (1997). It Uses An Approach That Is Both Historicist And Psychoanalytic To Critically Address Topics In Cultural Studies And Italian Studies. The Book Deals With Fictions Of Very Recent Publication, Many Of Which Have Been Published After The Turn Of The Millennium, Filling Important Gaps In The Critical Bibliography. Close Readings Relate Texts To Their Historical And Cultural Contexts, Critiquing Their Ideology While Preserving Their Utopian Moments.--jacket. Introduction -- Umberto Eco. The Poetics Of The Model Reader ; Life With Father: Il Nome Della Rosa ; Inaction And Reaction In Il Pendolo De Foucault ; Of Me I Sing: L'isola Del Giorno Prima ; Romancing The Family: Baudolino -- Interlude: Vincenzo Consolo's Poetics Of Memory -- Antonio Tabucchi. Back To The Future: On Tabucchi's Poetics Of A Posthumous Literature ; Back To The Present: The Self As Other In Tabucchi's Ekphrastic And Theatrical Writings ; Fragments Of The Discourses Of Lovers And Of Other Strangers ; Who's Zoomin' Who In Tristano Muore? -- Epilogue: Something's Burning: A Mysterious Flame. Joseph Francese. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 292-307) And Index. This book discusses issues of broad cultural consequence by examining the work of three of ItalyOs most prominent living novelists_Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi. It uses an approach that is both historicist and psychoanalytic to address topics in cultural studies and Italian studies