The role of the reader : explorations in the semiotics of texts / Umberto Eco.
Material type: TextSeries: Advances in semiotics | Advances in semiotics | A Midland book ; MB 318Publication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1984.Edition: 1st Midland book edDescription: viii, 273p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780253203182 (pbk.) :
- 9780253203182
- 801.95 ECO
- P99 .E28 1984
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 801.95 ECO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 204713 |
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.