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by Umberto Eco (Author)
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In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the 'addressee' in its production and one that holds the 'addressee' at bay and seeks to evoke a limited and predetermined response. He investigates the contributions of contemporary semantics to the study of narrative, and connects the modalities of textual interpretation with the problem of possible worlds.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another contribution to semiotics from the master, Oct 27 2000
The Italian Umberto Eco is a literary critic, novelist, and semiotician (studying symbols and symbol systems).

His introductory work to this fascinating field is "Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language" which is easier to start with. In "Theory of Semiotics" he presents his views. In his novel "The Name of the Rose" (1980) he brings the study of semiotics to fiction.

In this book, Eco sets out to illustrate how the reader engages in constructing meaning when reading texts. Like Roland Barthes and others in the field of semiotics (which is the study of symbols in culture), Eco draws upon Ferdinand de Saussure (Course in General Linguistics) and Claude Levi-Strauss (Structural Anthropology). Yet Eco recognizes that meaning is not merely governed by structure, but also interactively constructed by the reader/interpreter, who often inserts or fills-in missing meaning to construct a coherent picture.

Readers interested in questions of meaning, the philosophy of language, signs and symbols will find this a fascinating work. Although the subject matter is challenging, Eco's style is clear - he is a masterful writer.

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