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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... Cleanth Brooks , for instance , has argued that " the essence of poetry is metaphor , " a statement that - except for its privileging of metaphor over other figures — accords quite comfortably with J. Hillis Miller's insistence that the ...
... Cleanth Brooks , for instance , has argued that " the essence of poetry is metaphor , " a statement that - except for its privileging of metaphor over other figures — accords quite comfortably with J. Hillis Miller's insistence that the ...
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... Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren , Understanding Fiction , 173. See also Gary Saul Morson's claim that one of the rules of a novel is that " the state- ments , actions , and beliefs of any principal character ( or the narrator ) ...
... Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren , Understanding Fiction , 173. See also Gary Saul Morson's claim that one of the rules of a novel is that " the state- ments , actions , and beliefs of any principal character ( or the narrator ) ...
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... Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren , who tell us that if " nothing ' happens , " " then we simply do not have fiction ( Understand- ing Fiction , 10 ) . 17. Pratt , Toward a Speech Act Theory , 136 . cording to some configuration ...
... Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren , who tell us that if " nothing ' happens , " " then we simply do not have fiction ( Understand- ing Fiction , 10 ) . 17. Pratt , Toward a Speech Act Theory , 136 . cording to some configuration ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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