The Open Work

by Umberto Eco

Book Overview

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful 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 striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674639766
• ISBN13: 9780674639768
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"