The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Advances in Semiotic)
Released: Jun 01, 1979
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover, 273 pages
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"... 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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