Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Semiotics/Semeiotics
General concepts
Biosemiotics · Code
Computational semiotics
Connotation · Decode
Denotation · Encode
Lexical · Modality
Salience · Sign
Sign relation · Sign relational complex
Semiosis · Semiosphere
Semiotic literary criticism
Triadic relation
Umwelt · Value
Methods
Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis
Semioticians
Roland Barthes · Marcel Danesi
Ferdinand de Saussure
Umberto Eco · Louis Hjelmslev
Roman Jakobson · Roberta Kevelson
Charles Peirce · Thomas Sebeok
Topics of interest
Aestheticization as propaganda Aestheticization of violence Americanism
Semiotics of Ideal Beauty

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a book by Umberto Eco. Originally delivered at Harvard for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1993, as a series, in the fall of 1994, they were subsequently published in book form in 1994.

The lectures derive their title from Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium but Eco also cites Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler as inspiration because the novel "is concerned with the presence of the reader in the story" which was also the subject of the lectures and book.

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Library of Congress Online Catalog Record[1]:

 LC Control No.:     93033605
 Type of Material:   Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
 Personal Name:      Eco, Umberto.
 Main Title:         Six walks in the fictional woods / Umberto Eco.
 Published/Created:  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.
 Description:        153 p.; 22 cm.
 ISBN:               0674810503 (acid-free paper):
 Notes:              Includes bibliographical references
                     (p. 143-148) and index.
 Subjects:           Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855. Sylvie.
                     Fiction--Technique.
                     Narration (Rhetoric)
 Series:             The Charles Eliot Norton lectures; 1993
 LC Classification: PN3355 .E28 1994
 Dewey Class No.:    808.3 20

Eco's general concerns, besides that of literary criticism, fall under the subjects of techniques of fiction and narration or rhetoric.

The first chapter is involves the literary style Gerard de Nerval. He illustrates his point with a comic-book like figure, Figure 5.

Figure 5
Figure 5

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