About This Book
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's PARADISO is followed by one on the style of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. The next three essays centre on nineteenth -...
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