num_pages: 288
description: ... 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.
language: English
title: The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
titlecomplete: The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
genres: Academic, Philosophy, Linguistics, Literature, Semiotics, Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Research
ratings_count: 273
series: Advances in Semiotics
publisher: Indiana University Press