The Role of the Reader
Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
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Indiana University Press
UK
1979
Paperback
288
Standard
323433
978-0-253-20318-2
0-253-20318-X
Literary theory
Annotation
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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