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The role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts / Umberto Eco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eco, Umberto.
- Series:
- Advances in semiotics
- Advances in semiotics.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1979]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 267-273.
- ISBN:
- 0253111390
- OCLC:
- 4003437
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