Titlebook: Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture; Douglass Merrell Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicabl

Nonconformist

Mirage

Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce‘s Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist..978-3-319-85482-3978-3-319-54789-3

libertine

The Intellectual Species, of the intellectual and its specialization over time resulting in the contemporary social divide between intellectuals and popular culture becomes the foundation for Eco’s unique project as a public intellectual.

忍耐

Inculcate

GRATE

付出

The Literary Provocateur,vel .. Eco’s third novel . is considered as a Baroque anti-Romance novel, and a brief overview is offered of the narrative focus of his other four novels from the perspective of his concept of interrelational formativity.

laxative

The Intermediate Thinker,ugh his bestseller . (1980), is considered in relation to Dan Brown’s . (2003). Their bestseller ranking is explored as an index of the taste of a popular readership for books which are otherwise the privileged domain of the intellectual. Dan Brown’s novel is compared to Eco’s as the “thinking perso

Fibrillation

The Intellectual Species,uistic capacity is linked to our ability to modify the world which makes us the “cultural” and “aesthetic” species, as well as the “historical” species through our constant modifications over time. Our interaction with the products of human culture makes us the “existential” species, and we are the

Blood-Clot

A Medievalist in Hibernation,alesian Order. Eco’s medievalist focus is linked to his methodological and religious attraction to Aquinas as well as his militant participation in the Italian lay Catholic youth movement. The humanist tradition of the . is considered as the foundation for his encyclopedic knowledge. The aesthetics