Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of InterpretationOhio State University Press, 1998 - 249 pagine How does what we know shape the ways we read? Starting from the premise that any productive theory of narrative must take into account the presuppositions the reader brings to the text, Before Reading explores how our prior knowledge of literary conventions influences the processes of interpretation and evaluation. Available again with a new introduction by James Phelan. |
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... Big Sleep , he writes , " Even John Cawelti touts Marlowe in The Big Sleep as a hero who ' confronts , exposes , and destroys [ the novel's ] web of con- spiracy and perversion " " ( 200 , emphasis added ) . Then in the third ci- tation ...
... Big Sleep , he writes , " Even John Cawelti touts Marlowe in The Big Sleep as a hero who ' confronts , exposes , and destroys [ the novel's ] web of con- spiracy and perversion " " ( 200 , emphasis added ) . Then in the third ci- tation ...
Pagina 195
... Big Sleep , for instance , was intended as a critique of a conservative political position , but his point was con- sistently missed , even by his admirers . Thus , reading the novel tells us little about what his readers actually ...
... Big Sleep , for instance , was intended as a critique of a conservative political position , but his point was con- sistently missed , even by his admirers . Thus , reading the novel tells us little about what his readers actually ...
Pagina 200
... sleeping the big sleep , you were not bothered by things like that . Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you . You just sleep the big sleep , not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell . Me , I was part ...
... sleeping the big sleep , you were not bothered by things like that . Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you . You just sleep the big sleep , not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell . Me , I was part ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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