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

"... 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.