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by Umberto Eco; William Weaver (Translator)

Playful parodies by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Here, Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, overacademic, and overintellectual, and along the way makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde in art in criticism.


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Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. “A scintillating collection of writings” (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. "A scintillating collection of writings" (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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  • Title Misreadings
  • Author Umberto Eco; William Weaver (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st US Edition;
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harpervia, New York
  • Date 1993-05-07
  • ISBN 9780156607520 / 0156607522
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.55 x 4.78 x 0.68 in (19.18 x 12.14 x 1.73 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93000249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 854.914

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  • Library Journal, 05/01/1993, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/29/1993, Page 0
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