The Island of the Day Before | Themes
Like Eco's other novels, The Island of the Day Before reflects his background and interests as one of the world's foremost semioticians. He pursues theoretical and practical problems of signs and signification through the labyrinths of nature and society, and through verbal mazes of his own making. The overarching theme of the novel might be expressed as follows: how perception and experience alter each other in a never-ceasing dance.
Perception is conditioned by experience, but also modified by rhetorical training, philosophical systems, and special lenses. Roberto de la...
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