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Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and Intertextuality: Eastern Themes
2020
Scripta: Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna
The Name of the Rose, first novel by Umberto Eco, the Italian novelist and semiotician was published in 1980. The story happens in the Middle Ages (14th century) in an abbey, having a large and wonderful library. This historical detective story is a complicated novel full of intricate signs and symbols. In this paper, some of the themes of The Name of the Rose found in Eastern texts are discussed that indicate intertextuality and the immense amount of knowledge that Eco had of literature. It is
doi:10.7203/scripta.16.17341
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