PRIRODA I ZNAČAJ TEORIJE OTVORENOG DELA UMBERTA EKA

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the nature and significance of Eco’s theory of the open work, through the following aspects: 1. the influence of Joyce’s poetics; 2. nature and function of ambiguity; 3. multidisciplinarity in the Open Work (1962); 4. theories of information; 5. the relationship between the theory of open work and intertextuality; 6. the relationship between the author, the text and the reader in the Open Work and their theoretical overarching in Eco’s later studies; 6. the influence of the theory of the open work on the creation of hypertext; 7. application of the theory of the open work in Eco’s novels. In the Open Work, Umberto Eco became an innovator of the diffuse process of structuring “openness of meaning”, creating innovations, dynamic ambiguities that contributed to the development of a new vision of contemporary culture.