Has Umberto Eco become a classic of semiotics? In 1981, when M. Krampen
et al. edited their Classics of Semiotics, Eco was still among the
writers on the classics and not yet one of the classics of semiotics himself.
More recently, an ever increasing number of publications on Eco's own semiotic
writings seem to suggest that the author has now become a classic of
semiotics himself. Since Eco has become world famous, many of his theoretical
writings have appeared which are collages of
his own earlier publications. It may still be too early to decide whether
he will emerge as a classic of theoretical semiotics from these writings,
but the enormous critical echo of his fictional semiotic writings testifies
to the fact that Eco is a classic of semiotic literature of our times.
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