The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts - Softcover

Book 2 of 9: Advances in Semiotic

Eco, Umberto

 
9780091463915: The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
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ISBN 10: 0091463912 ISBN 13: 9780091463915
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." ―The Review of Metaphysics

... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." ―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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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication date
1981
Language
Italian
ISBN 10 
0091463912
ISBN 13 
9780091463915
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
273

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ISBN 10:  025320318X ISBN 13:  9780253203182
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1979
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