Obra aberta : teoria da vanguarda literaria nas obras teorico-criticas de Umberto Eco / Open work: theory of literary avant-garde in the theoretical works of Umberto Eco

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2006

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This dissertation deals with the concepts of open work, avant-garde and kitsch present in the theoretical and critical works of the Italian semiologist Umberto Eco, in order to observe how the concept of open work sheds light upon and founds a dialectic between norm and invention in the field of the arts, and between avant-garde and kitsch in the contemporary artistic scenery. In the first section, we review Eco?s epistemological basis, in particular the works of Luigi Pareyson and the works of the Russian formalists; afterward, we deal with the main notions within Eco?s semiotic theory, in order to grasp (a) the concept of openness, by means of the dichotomy between aesthetical messages and referential messages; (b) how the openness fostered by the aesthetical messages challenges the interpretative habits imposed by the repetitive use of the referential messages; and (c) how is it possible, since that, to build a controvert ideology. In possession of a structuralist model, we intend to comprehend how the dialectic between avant-garde and kitsch art sustain itself, by the analysis of their respective ideological implication in face of the preceding argumentation. In the second section of this dissertation, we propose a discussion of the poetics of postmodernism based on the ideas above, trying to evince its possibility to diffuse a controvert ideology by means of the parody, while it shows a high degree of openness. We finalize this dissertation with a short study of Eco?s novels, when we point to a contradiction between what he postulates as the artistic value in the field of theory and what he actually produces as novel writer

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mass culture cultura de massa avant-garde (aesthetics) vanguarda (estetica) semiotics postmodernism semiotica pos-modernismo

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