TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eco,Umberto
TI  - The role of the reader: explorations in the semiotics of texts 
T2  - Advances in semiotics
SN  - 9780253203182 (pbk.) :
AV  - P99 .E28 1984
U1  - 801.95 ECO 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Bloomington, Ind.
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Literature
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - thema
KW  - Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
KW  - Literary theory
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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