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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Introduction: The Role of the Reader
3
I.
Open
1. The Poetics of the Open Work
47
2. The Semantics of Metaphor
67
3. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages in an Edenic Language
90
II.
Closed
4. The Myth of Superman
107
5. Rhetoric and Ideology in Sue's Les Mystères de Paris
125
6. Narrative Structures in Fleming
144
III.
Open/Closed
7. Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs
175
8. Lector in Fabula: Pragmatic Strategy in a Metanarrative Text
200
Appendix 1
261
Appendix 2
263
Bibliography
267

 
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