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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Literary Works

The Role of the Reader

Author

Umberto Eco

Call Number

KH865787.EWPR 9316 1985

Accession Number

20013kh

PUBLICATION YEAR

2022

Keywords

reader, interpretation, open texts, closed texts, criticism

Book Summary

"... 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.

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