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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
  

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Hardcover)

by Umberto Eco (Author)
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Eco's six lectures in Harvard's prestigious "Charles Eliot Norton Lectures" invite readers to reexamine how they read and how much is expected of them. Eco argues that any actual reader is an empirical reader with a specific personal reading context. As such, each individual reader is only part of the model reader, the author's composite imagined listener. But the individual author, always distinct from the narrator, even a first-person narrator, is also only part of the model author whose stylistic strategies help all empirical readers infer what the characteristics of the model reader are and, circling back, what those of the model author are. Using entertaining anecdotes from serious and popular fiction (Dante, Poe, Nerval, Calvino), cinema, and journalism, Eco ( Misreadings , LJ 5/1/92) scales back the systematizing of his Seventies semiotics and makes reading a commonsense activity, both challenging and titillating. For comprehensive collections in literature.
- Marilyn Gaddis Rose, SUNY-Binghamton
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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The dim boundary between the imaginary and the real is Eco's home terrain...He is a foxy gamesman, using enchanted woods as a flexible image for narrative texts, and mustering a playful array of allusions from "The Three Musketeers" to the "Rocky Horror Picture Show". -- Robert Taylor "Boston Globe"

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5.0 out of 5 stars more accessible than expected, Dec 14 2001
By Douglas H. Haden (Ridgecrest, CA United States) - See all my reviews
Six Walks is more accessible than I had expected (my copy is now heavily highlighted, marked up, and loaded with the little plastic stickies I use to flag ideas and references). Eco is speaking to readers and, thereby, equally to writers. The six Charles Elliot Norton lectures begin with the role time plays in fiction and end with the importance (to our perception of reality) of accuracy in writing fiction. This is weighty stuff made accessible by Eco's illustration by example: Yes, Dante, Shakespeare, and Kafka, but the writers who give us Hercule Poirot, Agent 007 and Little Red Riding Hood as well. If you read fiction or write fiction, the material will be useful and the book will please.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A bit of a curve..., April 22 2001
By Eric Guyer (Ashland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book used in Berkeley hoping for a tutorial from one of my heroes on how to write and what the narrative form can be. I finished by cursing myself for not having read Nerval but examining the relationship between the author, the text and the reader. My lasting impression is that this book caused me to examine the way in which the author imposes his own views over the text - and for that I am grateful.
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