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The role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts / Umberto Eco.

By: Language: English Series: A Midland book | Advances in semioticsPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press, 1984Edition: 1. Midland book edDescription: 273 sISBN:
  • 025320318X
  • 9780253203182
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95 22/swe
Other classification:
  • G:df
  • F:d
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Book Biblioteket HKR Biblioteket 801 Eco Available 11156000082959
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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