Open text
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In semiotic analysis, an open text is a text that allows multiple or mediated interpretation by the readers. In contrast, a closed text leads the reader to one intended interpretation.
The concept of the open text comes from Umberto Eco's collection of essays The Role of the Reader[1], but it is also derivative of Roland Barthes's distinction between 'readerly' (lisible) and 'writerly' (scriptible) texts as set out in his 1968 essay, The Death of the Author[2].
[edit] References
- http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06092006-044853/
- http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=+%22open+text%22&as_subj=soc
- ^ Eco, U., 1984,The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts, Indiana University Press, ISBN 025320318X
- ^ Barthes, R., 1977, 'The Death of the Author' in Image-Music-Text, Fontana
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