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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... Edna His Wife , since it deals similarly with the difficulties of the long climb up through the American class structure — and , coincidentally , with misplaced Midwesterners in New York . Edna is clearly a novel with something to offer ...
... Edna His Wife , since it deals similarly with the difficulties of the long climb up through the American class structure — and , coincidentally , with misplaced Midwesterners in New York . Edna is clearly a novel with something to offer ...
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... Edna , and the more pointless Edna's life becomes . With abun- dant financial resources and servants to do all her domestic chores , she has less and less intimacy with her family . Remaining very much the same working - class woman ...
... Edna , and the more pointless Edna's life becomes . With abun- dant financial resources and servants to do all her domestic chores , she has less and less intimacy with her family . Remaining very much the same working - class woman ...
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... Edna , to paraphrase Vladimir Nabokov , Emma Bovary is a Hegel . Emma , at least , reads ; since her world view comes from books , there is always the remote pos- sibility that she might stumble upon one that could serve as a corrective ...
... Edna , to paraphrase Vladimir Nabokov , Emma Bovary is a Hegel . Emma , at least , reads ; since her world view comes from books , there is always the remote pos- sibility that she might stumble upon one that could serve as a corrective ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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