French philosopher Roland Barthes is perhaps the leading figure in the field of semiotics, which is the study of signs. Launching his study from the landmark theories of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes transformed the study of semiotics beyond merely linking signifiers to the signified and further toward understanding the actual meanings of signs, ...
Narrated by the 80-year-old Benedictine monk Adso, “The Name of the Rose” relates events that occurred over a one-week period in 1327 when Adso (then an 18-year-old novice) and his master, the English Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, visited an abbey in northern Italy. The action takes place during the controversy over Apostolic poverty that ...
Musicology as a field of study has been in a state of flux since the rise of popular music at the beginning of the 20th century. Classical musicology has been dominated by just that: the study of classical music. The reasons given for this range from its reliance on formal structure and harmony to the ...
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” This quote by Umberto Eco could be a concise introduction to his highly influential work in semiotics, aesthetics, linguistics, and his ...
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