Publications

Publication details [#2924]

Eco, Umberto. 1978. Possible worlds and text pragmatics: Un drame bien parisien. Versus 19 (20) : 5–72.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cooperation | possible world | reader | short story

Annotation

A semiotic and pragmatic analysis of a short story by Alphonse Allais, focusing on the cooperative role of the reader in text-actualization and introducing the concept of possible world as a means for the analysis of narrative texts.

Reprints

Eco, Umberto. 1979. 'Lector in fabula': Pragmatic strategy in a metanarrative text. In Eco, Umberto, ed. The role of the reader: Explorations in the semiotics of texts. Indiana UP. pp. 200–260.