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Role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts

By: Eco, Umberto.
Series: Advances in semiotics Midland book MB 318.Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press 1979Description: viii, 273 p. 23 cm.ISBN: 9780253203182.Subject(s): Semiotics | Discourse analysis | Textual interpretation | Metaphors | Semantics | Hermeneutics | The Model Reader | Discursive structures | Narrative structures | Open work | Metaphor | Edenic Language | Superman | Eugene Sue | Fleming | A Manichean ideologyDDC classification: 801.95 Summary: " . . . 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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" . . . 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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