Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Advances in Semiotics) - Hardcover

Eco, Umberto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253111390 ISBN 13: 9780253111395

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1979

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0253111390
• ISBN 13: 9780253111395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288