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Umberto Eco’s The Name of The Rose as Histographic Metafiction (Pastiche, Parody and Intertextuality of History)
Abstract: The late medieval world, teetering on the edge of discoveries and ideas that will hurl it into one more recognizably ours, its thought, its life-style, its intense political and ecclesiastical intrigues…its steamy and seductive currents of heresy of thought…all these are evoked with a force and wit that is breathtaking - Financial Times.The Name of The Rose (1980) is the first and most acclaimed work of Umberto Eco, Italian medievalist, …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 2, Issue 3, 2012 · pp. 13–18 Read article