Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco

The thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also seeks to explain why their author appeals so freq...

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Main Author: Key, Jonathan Benjamin
Published: University of Warwick 1999
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538158