The Open Work

基本信息

Translated by Anna Cancogni

Introduction by David Robey

Format:Paperback / softback 320 pages, None

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Imprint:Harvard University Press

ISBN:9780674639768

Published:1 Jul 1989

Classifications:Theory of art, Literary theory

Readership:Professional & Vocational Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Undergraduate

Weight:450g

Dimensions:157 x 234 x 24 (mm)

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書籍簡介

當代西方文化界大師艾柯最最重要的學術著作

當代意識理論的革命性標誌作品

引發西方文化界巨大持久爭議

探討西方現代藝術、文學的趣味之作

這個全新的版本，經過艾柯本人的同意，為英語讀者編輯的，包括大衞·羅比的權威介紹，探索艾柯在公開工作期間，在他對符號學的吸收之前的思想。這本書現在包含了關於艾柯的導師路易吉·帕雷森，關於電視和大眾文化，以及關於藝術政治的關鍵文章。[哈佛大學出版社分別同時出版了詹姆斯·喬伊斯的擴展研究，這原本是公開作品的一部分，題為《混亂的美學:詹姆斯·喬伊斯的中世紀》。]

《開放的作品》至今仍然是就語言技術和20世紀先鋒派藝術的思想意識作用進行的討論所依據的座標，這裏所説的先鋒派藝術既包括“歷史的”先鋒派，也包括“新先鋒派”，對這種“新先鋒派”既做了*具挑戰性的理論總結，也進行了最詳盡的批評。

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of “openness”—the artist’s decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance—and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process between reader and text. The questions Umberto Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general.

This entirely new edition, edited for the English-language audience with the approval of Eco himself, includes an authoritative introduction by David Robey that explores Eco’s thought at the period of The Open Work, prior to his absorption in semiotics. The book now contains key essays on Eco’s mentor Luigi Pareyson, on television and mass culture, and on the politics of art. [Harvard University Press published separately and simultaneously the extended study of James Joyce that was originally part of The Open Work, entitled The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce.]

The Open Work explores a set of issues in aesthetics that remain central to critical theory, and does so in a characteristically vivid style. Eco’s convincing manner of presenting ideas and his instinct for the lively example are threaded compellingly throughout. This book is at once a major treatise in modern aesthetics and an excellent introduction to Eco’s thought.

目錄

1. The Poetics of the Open Work

2. Analysis of Poetic Language

3. Openness, Information, Communication

4. The Open Work in the Visual Arts

5. Chance and Plot: Television and Aesthetics

6. Form as Social Commitment

7. Form and Interpretation in Luigi Pareyson’s Aesthetics

8. Two Hypotheses about the Death of Art

9. The Structure of Bad Taste

10. Series and Structure

11. The Death of the Gruppo 63

Notes

Index

作者簡介

安伯託·艾柯（Umberto Eco，1932-2016 ），1932年1月5日出生於皮埃蒙蒂州的亞歷山大，是一位享譽世界的哲學家、符號學家、歷史學家、文學批評家和小説家。

《劍橋意大利文學史》將安伯託·艾柯譽為20世紀後半期最耀眼的意大利作家，並盛讚他那“貫穿於職業生涯的‘調停者’和‘綜合者’意識” 。艾柯的世界遼闊而多重，除了隨筆、雜文和小説，還有大量論文、論著和編著，研究者將其粗略分為8大類52種 ，包含中世紀神學研究、美學研究、文學研究、大眾文化研究、符號學研究和闡釋學研究等。

2016年2月19日，意大利偉大作家安伯託·艾柯（Umberto Eco)在米蘭家中逝世，享壽84歲。

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.