TY - GEN N2 - "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."-- AB - "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."-- T1 - Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the intellectual in the age of popular culture / AU - Merrell, Douglass, AU - Brown, Dan, CN - PQ4865.C6 ID - 790278 KW - Novelists, Italian SN - 9783319547893 SN - 3319547895 TI - Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the intellectual in the age of popular culture / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-54789-3 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-54789-3 ER -