[1.] Traditions: "To make truth laugh": Eco's / Hans Kellner --

Apocalyptic visions and visionaries in The name of the rose / Lois Parkinson Zamora --

The name of the rose as a postmodern novel / Mark Parker --

[2.] Detectives: The hounding of Baskerville: allusion and apocalypse in Eco's The name of the rose / Michael Cohen --

Eco's conflation of theology and detection in The name of the rose / Joan DelFattore --

The detective novel and the defense of humanism / Pierre L. Horn --

Holmes goes to carnival: embarrassing the signifier in Eco's anti-detective novel / A. Aram Veeser --

[3.] Semiotics: Sign and de-sign: medieval and modern semiotics in Umberto Eco's The name of the rose / Helen T. Bennett --

Traversing the labyrinth: the structures of discovery in Eco's The name of the rose / Jocelyn Mann --

Answering idle questions: open and closed readers in The name of the rose / Deborah Parker --

Postscript: The name of the rose as popular culture / Roger Rollin --

Appendix: A preliminary checklist of English-language criticism / Jackson R. Bryer and Ruth M. Alvarez.