The Open Work

Informationen zum Autor Umberto Eco Klappentext This book is significant for its concept of "openness"-the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance-and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text. Zusammenfassung This book is significant for its concept of “openness”—the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance—and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.

About the author

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was an acclaimed writer, philosopher, medievalist, and semiotician. In addition to dozens of nonfiction books, he authored seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, which has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than fifty million copies worldwide.

Product details

• Authors: Umberto Eco, Eco Umberto
• Assisted by: Robey David (Introduction), Anna Cancogni (Translation), Cancogni Anna (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.1989
• EAN: 9780674639768
• ISBN: 978-0-674-63976-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Aesthetics, Theory of art, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, ART / Criticism & Theory, Literary theory