The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts

By (author): "Umberto Eco"
Publish Date: 1979
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
ISBN025320318X
ISBN139780253203182
AsinThe Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
Original titleLector in fabula
... 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 JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts.