Open and closed texts

Literary critics assess texts as a mechanism of transmitting information from a writer to a reader, from a generation to another. It is important for a work to have many possibilities to emit the whole meaning of the message, and these possibilities are determined by both the qualities of the writer and the reader's qualities. In the production process, the writer is the first one who could read his own words, and the reader writer has a different perception than the writer himself. e could see his work more critically, could indetify a lot of drawbacks and could operate the cheanges required. !fter he composed, his work survives the passge of time on its own. "eaders, by their literary taste, read a book or not and most of them decides if it can be called a masterpiece. #est of time has shown many times it is defining for the work existance. On the other hand, the reader is the one who helps the works to survive. #hrow his lecture, he gives the meaning and that drives to giving the importance to a specific work. $ecoding the codes of the book, the reader is able to assess it by its accuracy, fluency. #exts can be of two types according to %mberto &co' closed and open text. e considers that nothing is more open than a closed text. It is closed because the reader does not effect a reading for pleasure. #he performer could not cooperate with the work and his own strategies and that drives to a misunderstanding and also to problem in receiving the message. (oreover, %mberto &co)s view says that a closed text has only some few interpretations, and these texts could not be used according to the wishes of each reader. !n open text is placed on the other edge of the issue. #he reader knows all the usage of the text and he could pull out all that meanings which accomplish the expectation. #he tipology of the texts risks to become a perpetual producer of shades. #he writer must know how he drives the lecturer in his reading and where the reader)s freedom must begin. "egarding the sum of possible interpretation should include all that intendments that confirm each other. &ach and every text built up his own model reader. #his one is a pro*ection of the ideal reader who can bring out all that meanings, submitted symbols. In fact, he assists to the rewriting process of the text and this action is happening under his eyes. #he imaginate power, the fabric knowledge of the reader reorganise the book universe and give it a new and original interpretation. (any possible interpretations entails values of the literary work. #o sum up, there are some important factors that conditioned the writer process of the text and its existance after that' the writer, the reader and the context. Literature knows over time many masterpieces, but also some writings that could not reach the readers)

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