The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts Umberto Eco
...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.