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Umberto Eco

Novelist; Professor of Linguistics, University of Bologna.

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The Virtual Imagination

Umberto Eco Series: The World in Words

2000-11-07

MILAN: Will books, through the power of computers and the internet, be transformed into boundless “hypertextual structures” in which the reader is also author? ... read

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The Virtual Imagination

Umberto Eco Series: The World in Words

2000-11-07

MILAN: Will books, through the power of computers and the internet, be transformed into boundless “hypertextual structures” in which the reader is also author? ... read

Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 16656

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