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The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Advances in Semiotic)

The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Advances in Semiotic)

Author(s): Eco, Umberto

Pages: 288

Year: 1979-07-01

Publisher: Indiana University Press

URL: http://www.amazon.com/The-Role-Reader-Explorations-Semiotics/dp/025320318X%…

ISBN: 025320318X

Abstract: Book Description: ..'. 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.

Category: Philosophy

Location: Arnhem

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