This essay develops the multiple "passional" implications implied within every act of reading. Texts have the potential power to elicit the passions of the reader trought various textual strategies that, in turn, enable the readerr to become emotionally or passionally involved in the narration and , furthermore, to share in the emotions of the characters. The second part of this essay presents a reading of a story by friedrich Durrenmatt, "The Dying of the Pythia", which appeared not long before Eco's work, Lector in fabula, 1979.

Nothing is more open than a closed text: The case of Oedipus / Pezzini, Isabella. - In: SEMIOTICA. - ISSN 1613-3692. - STAMPA. - vol 206 ISSUE 1/4:Special Issue: Umberto Eco's Interpretative Semiotics: Interpretation, Emcyclopedia, Translation, a cura di Cinzia Bianchi e Claire Vassallo(2015), pp. 63-88. [https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0019]

Nothing is more open than a closed text: The case of Oedipus

PEZZINI, Isabella
2015

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This essay develops the multiple "passional" implications implied within every act of reading. Texts have the potential power to elicit the passions of the reader trought various textual strategies that, in turn, enable the readerr to become emotionally or passionally involved in the narration and , furthermore, to share in the emotions of the characters. The second part of this essay presents a reading of a story by friedrich Durrenmatt, "The Dying of the Pythia", which appeared not long before Eco's work, Lector in fabula, 1979.
2015
Eco; interpretation; passions; narration; act of reading; textual cooperation
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Nothing is more open than a closed text: The case of Oedipus / Pezzini, Isabella. - In: SEMIOTICA. - ISSN 1613-3692. - STAMPA. - vol 206 ISSUE 1/4:Special Issue: Umberto Eco's Interpretative Semiotics: Interpretation, Emcyclopedia, Translation, a cura di Cinzia Bianchi e Claire Vassallo(2015), pp. 63-88. [https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0019]
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