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Title: The Key to The Name of the Rose : Including Translations of All Non-English Passages by Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, Robert J. White ISBN: 0-472-08621-9 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Key to the Name of the Rose
Comment: After reading The Name of the Rose with few helps, discovering this book was quite wonderful. It goes into adaquate detail with the historical background, and I found the translations to be good and very helpful. A must for those trying the novel for the first time or for those who felt the lack of endnotes frustrating. A wonderful suppplement.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Key to "The Name of the Rose"
Comment: The Key to "The Name of the Rose" by Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, and Robert J. White is a wonderful little book. When was the last time you used your Latin that you had in High School? You say, you never had Latin... well how do you expect to solve the clues that Brother William of Baskerville in "The Name of the Rose" gets.
Well, the answer is in this little tome as it includes translations of all of the Non-English passages making you as "smart" as Brother William. This book furthers your experience when reading "The Name of the Rose" as you now can decode the juicy clues. Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" is about crimes in a medieval abbey and the obsession of it monks with heresies, apocalyptic visions, and forbidden knowledge.
This "Key" is a delightful guide to the phrases and bizarre characters and has mirthful anecdotes that you're sure to enjoy and you'll solve the mystery of the seven deaths as fast as Brother William and enjoy the intrigue in doing so.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent resource for artists
Comment: i am hoping to do an intricate performance art piece based on the novel "the name of the rose;" however, many of the lush details and layers were lost on me, because i am not a historian or a scholar well-versed in semiotics... the task is still daunting, but i feel more confident having this "hint book" to fill me in on the background information. it renders the novel much more accessible to a lay person, and makes the story even MORE fascinating than it already is. i suggest that anyone reading "the name of the rose" should have a copy of this to help them along... also, there is a text that does this same task for dante's "divine comedy" (dante has a large influence on the novel, so reading dante will help the reader to understand the apocolyptic attitudes of the characters). joseph gallagher wrote "a modern reader's guide to dante's 'the divine comedy'" which you may also find helpful.
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Title: The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0156001314 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0345368754 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Baudolino by Umberto Eco, William Weaver ISBN: 0156029065 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 06 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title:The Name of the Rose ASIN: B0001Z37IG Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 06 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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Title: Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco ISBN: 015173156X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: November, 1984 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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