Broadening the Literary Field in Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Cover Image

Poszerzanie pola literatury w Tajemniczym płomieniu królowej Loany Umberta Eco
Broadening the Literary Field in Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Author(s): Elżbieta Winiecka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: Umberto Eco; metamedia novel; mass culture; literary field; semiology

Summary/Abstract: The article reconstructs Umberto Eco’s point of view on mass culture and on the situation and tasks of literature in the world of media in the example of his novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. The authoress uses for this purpose Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the literary field. She shows, how semiological mechanisms used inside the novel lead to, on the one hand, strengthening of the autonomy of literature in the world of multimedia and, on the other hand, constructing new, metamedia and hypertextual genre of novel.

  • Issue Year: 58/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 99-118
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish