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Eco's Echoes: Fictional Theory and Detective Practice in The Name of the Rose
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1986 Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is a serio-comic pastiche of the detective story set in the middle ages, which uses history as "a distant mirror" to comment, from a Western Marxist perspective, on contemporary political issues. Structurally, however,
David H. Richter
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Some Further Remarks on Hybrid View of Fictional Characters [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 In this short paper, I focus on several properties of the so-called Hybrid View of Fictional Characters. First, I present the theory to be discussed.
Miloš Kosterec
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Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 The main thesis I want to defend in this essay is that a fictional name refers to an individual concept, understood as a mental file that stores information, in the form of different descriptive concepts, about a purported individual.
Eleonora Orlando
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On Anaphors Linked to Names Used Metaphorically [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 In their 2018 paper “On the Metaphoric Use of (Fictional) Proper Names”, Corazza & Genovesi explored what speakers do when they utter a fictional name in a metaphorical way to refer to actual individuals.
Eros Corazza, Christopher Genovesi
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An Inferentialist Account of Fictional Names [PDF]
Organon F, 2023 The goal of this paper is to present and defend an inferentialist account of the meaning of fictional names on the basis of Sellars-Brandom’s inferentialist semantics and a Brandomian anaphoric theory of reference.
Byeong D. Lee
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The Meanings of Fictional Names [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 According to Millianism, the meaning of a name is exhausted by its referent. According to anti-realism about fictional entities, there are no such entities.
Fiora Salis
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Cognitive Aspects of Reception of Popular Literary Genres and Their Historical Variability [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2021 In the article, the author investigates connections between historical variability of literary genres and readers’ ability to recognize them. Following J.-M.
Artem A. Zubov
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Some Remarks on Eco’s Confession and His Mystical Raptus
Rivista di Estetica, 2021 What happens when we read a text like The Name of the Rose? How may we understand what is fictional and what is true in it? By working on Eco’s Confessions of a Young Novelist, we will try to investigate the phenomenology of reading together with ...
Carola Barbero
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La sémantique des noms propres transfictionnels
Itinéraires, 2017 Transfictional narratives frequently reinterpret the story of characters belonging to another fictional work. By the tacit primacy they grant to the initial work, several theories of fictional proper names struggle to account for the semantical changes ...
David Paquette-Bélanger
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In this Light Church — Korney is the Hierarch: Recurring Images in the Poetry of Korney Chukovsky and His Contemporaries [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2018 The article examines a poetic portrait of Korney Chukovsky. By introducing the figure of the storyteller into several of his tales, the author launched a tradition of representing himself as a fictional character. Readers perceived the protagonist of his
Olga A. Simonova
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