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Publication details [#2926]

Eco, Umberto, ed. 1979. The role of the reader: Explorations in the semiotics of texts. Indiana UP. viii + 273 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

reader | semiotics

Articles in this volume

Eco, Umberto. The role of the reader. 3–43

Eco, Umberto. The semantics of metaphor. 67–89

Eco, Umberto. On the possibility of generating aesthetic messages in an edenic language. 90–104

Eco, Umberto. Peirce and the semiotic foundations of openness: Signs as texts and texts as signs. 175–199

Eco, Umberto. 'Lector in fabula': Pragmatic strategy in a metanarrative text. 200–260