@article{790278,
      recid = {790278},
      author = {Merrell, Douglass, and Brown, Dan,},
      title = {Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the intellectual in  the age of popular culture /},
      pages = {1 online resource (vi, 296 pages)},
      abstract = {"This text provides a philosophical overview of Umberto  Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique,  internationally recognized public intellectual who  communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular  audience. It describes Eco's intellectual development from  his childhood during World War II and student involvement  as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle  Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern  works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/790278},
}