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Published by Indiana University Press, 1979
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- Title
- The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Advances in Semiotic)
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Publication year
- 1979
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0253111390
- ISBN 13
- 9780253111395
- Series
- Book 2 of 9: Advances in Semiotic
"... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." â The Review of Metaphysics
"... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." â Library Journal
In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts.
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In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the 'addressee' in its production and one that holds the 'addressee' at bay and seeks to evoke a limited and predetermined response. He investigates the contributions of contemporary semantics to the study of narrative, and connects the modalities of textual interpretation with the problem of possible worlds.
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