The role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts / Umberto Eco.
Language: English Series: A Midland book | Advances in semioticsPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press, 1984Edition: 1. Midland book edDescription: 273 sISBN:- 025320318X
- 9780253203182
- 801.95 22/swe
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
" . . . 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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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Introduction: The Role of the Reader
- I Open
- 1 The Poetics of the Open Work
- 2 The Semantics of Metaphor
- 3 On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages in an Edenic Language
- II Closed
- 4 The Myth of Superman
- 5 Rhetoric and Ideology in Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris
- 6 Narrative Structures in Fleming
- III Open/Closed
- 7 Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs
- 8 Lector in Fabula: Pragmatic Strategy in a Metanarrative Text
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Bibliography