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.