The role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts /
Eco, Umberto.
The role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts / Umberto Eco. - 1st Midland book ed. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1984. - viii, 273p. ; 24 cm. - Advances in semiotics . - Advances in semiotics A Midland book ; MB 318 .
Originally published: Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1979.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-273) and index.
I Open: The poetics of the open work--the semantics of metaphor--on the possibility of generatingaesthetic messages in an edenic language. II. Closed: The myth of Superman--rhetoric and ideology in Sue\'s Les Mysteres de Paris--narrative structures in Fleming. III. Open/Closed: Peirce and the semiotic foundations of openness: signs as texts and texts as signs--Lector in Fabula: pragmatic strategy in a metanarative text.--Appendix.
In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between \'open\' and \'closed\' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the \'addressee\' in its production and one that holds the \'addressee\' at bay and seeks to evoke a limited and predetermined response. He investigates the contributions of contemporary semantics to the study of narrative, and connects the modalities of textual interpretation with the problem of possible worlds.
9780253203182 (pbk.) : No price 9780253203182
Semiotics.
Discourse analysis.
Literature.
Linguistics
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Literary theory
P99 / .E28 1984
801.95 ECO
The role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts / Umberto Eco. - 1st Midland book ed. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1984. - viii, 273p. ; 24 cm. - Advances in semiotics . - Advances in semiotics A Midland book ; MB 318 .
Originally published: Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1979.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-273) and index.
I Open: The poetics of the open work--the semantics of metaphor--on the possibility of generatingaesthetic messages in an edenic language. II. Closed: The myth of Superman--rhetoric and ideology in Sue\'s Les Mysteres de Paris--narrative structures in Fleming. III. Open/Closed: Peirce and the semiotic foundations of openness: signs as texts and texts as signs--Lector in Fabula: pragmatic strategy in a metanarative text.--Appendix.
In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between \'open\' and \'closed\' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the \'addressee\' in its production and one that holds the \'addressee\' at bay and seeks to evoke a limited and predetermined response. He investigates the contributions of contemporary semantics to the study of narrative, and connects the modalities of textual interpretation with the problem of possible worlds.
9780253203182 (pbk.) : No price 9780253203182
Semiotics.
Discourse analysis.
Literature.
Linguistics
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Literary theory
P99 / .E28 1984
801.95 ECO