The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
Umberto Eco
288 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 025320318X
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Language: English
Publish: 301474800000
AcademicCriticismLinguisticsLiterary CriticismLiteratureNonfictionPhilosophyResearchSemioticsTheory
… 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.