The Role of the Reader David Dalton Winner of the President's Book

Winner of the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association

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for leaders and emergent leaders in religious and other settings

Barbara Visser

The Role of the Reader David Dalton Winner of the President's Booknot merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics essential reading for anyone interesting in the new reader centered forms of criticism." Library Journal In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between `open' and `closed' texts.