Umberto Eco had long been famous as an exponent of the theory of semiotics when his novel was published in 1980. Since then, Eco has also become known as a writer of fiction, and the relation between this work and his theoretical semiotics is a tantalizing subject. The title The Name of the Rose reminds us directly of the famous passage in Romeo and Juliet which has traditionally served as an argument for the conventionality of linguistic signs in Saussure's sense. The passage has often been quoted as a paraphrase of the most essential semiotic problem:
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
A juxtaposition of Eco's La struttura assente (1968) against La nome della rosa offers a rare opportunity to compare semiotic theory and practice from the same pen. The novel has its own merits, but an attempt to read and to understand it in the light of the earlier theory is revealing. It shows that this work of fiction turns the abstract principles of Eco's semiotics into the concrete features of a narrative. In doing so, The Name of the Rose raises to explicitness semiotic patterns that have always functioned in this literary genre, i.e., it is not just a novel but a kind of meta-novel that takes as its real subject the exposure of narrative patterns in previous literature. It does so through parody, allusion, and playful distortion of conventional narrative techniques.
The interrelation of literary categories
The Name of the Rose explores the semiotic features of four conventional categories of the novel as they have developed in Western narrative tradition. It is first of all a detective novel, but it is also an historical novel situated in the late Middle Ages. Furthermore, some of the details of central importance remind the reader of the traditional treasure hunt story, and in as far as the plot is the narrator's story, the whole can also be called a novel of initiation in the sense of a Bildungs- und Entwicklungsroman.
The influence which the two main genre types exercise on the novel is different in its different chapters. The happenings at the Papal court in Avignon, the heretical movement in Northern Italy, and the court of the Inquisition, for example, are predominantly historical; the investigations of the protagonist, his analyses of the murders, and his various discoveries are more on the detective side. In general, however, the two types of novel cannot be separated. This is the case even with su
... keep reading on reddit ➡The votaries of lust say that God takes pity on this sin; but such is not the language of Saint Thomas of Villanova. He says that in the sacred Scriptures we do not read of any sin so severely chastised as the sin of impurity. We find in the Scriptures, that in punishment of this sin, a deluge of fire descended from Heaven on four cities, and in an instant, consumed not only the inhabitants, but even the very stones. "And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven. And He destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth" - Genesis 19:24-25. Saint Peter Damian relates that a man and woman who had sinned against purity, were found burnt and black as a cinder.
Salvian writes that it was in punishment of the sin of impurity that God sent on the Earth the universal deluge, which was caused by continued rain for forty days and forty nights. In this deluge, the waters rose fifteen cubits above the tops of the highest mountains; and only eight persons along with Noah were saved in the ark. The rest of the inhabitants of the Earth, who were more numerous then than at present, were punished with death in chastisement of the vice of impurity.
Mark the words of the Lord in speaking of this chastisement which He inflicted on that sin. "My Spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh" - Genesis 6:3. "That is", says Liranus, "too deeply involved in carnal sins". The Lord added, "For it repenteth Me that I have made them" - Genesis 6:7. The indignation of God is not like ours, which clouds the mind, and drives us into excesses; His wrath is a judgment perfectly just and tranquil, by which God punishes and repairs the disorders of sin. But to make us understand the intensity of His hatred for the sin of impurity,
He represents Himself as if sorry for having created man, who offended Him so grievously by this vice. We, at the present day, see more severe temporal punishment inflicted on this, than on any other sin. Go into the hospitals, and listen to the shrieks of so many young men, who, in punishment of their impurities, are obliged to submit to the severest treatment and to the most painful operations, and who, if they escape death, are, according to the divine threat, feeble, and subject to the most excruciating pain for the remainder of their lives. "*Because thou hast forgotten Me, and hast cast Me off behind thy bac
... keep reading on reddit ➡Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
Buenosdillas
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
“BOOM”?!
"That's what they're fighting about."
Because his Visa didn’t work.
Because the audience only responds in a low ha
