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The Role of the Reader (Advances in Semiotics)
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The Role of the Reader (Advances in Semiotics)From The Preface :
Six of the nine essays published in this book were written between 1959 and 1971. "The Poetics of the Open Work" (Chapter 1) and "The Myth of Superman" (Chapter 4)written respectively in 1959 and in 1962, before I fully developed my semiotic approachrepresent two opposing aspects of my interest in the dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts. The introductory essay of this book makes clear what I mean today by such a categorial polarity and how I see it as a special case of a more general semiotic phenomenon: the cooperative role of the addressee in interpreting messages.
 
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