The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts

... 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.

• Author
• Umberto Eco

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Indiana University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780253203182

• Genres
• philosophy, semiotics, linguistics, criticism, literature, theory, academic, research

• Release date
• 1979