The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Advances in Semiotics)

by UmbertoEco (Author)

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  Paperback
  1979

  $21.78

  ... 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.