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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... Judith Fetterley , The Resisting Reader Whatever critical affiliations we may proclaim , we are all New Critics , in that it requires a strenuous effort to escape notions of the autonomy of the literary work , the importance of dem ...
... Judith Fetterley , The Resisting Reader Whatever critical affiliations we may proclaim , we are all New Critics , in that it requires a strenuous effort to escape notions of the autonomy of the literary work , the importance of dem ...
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... Judith Fetterley's " resisting reader " can come into being only if there is something to resist.4 41 Two examples may clarify how certain kinds of political criticism can be strengthened if they are built on a foundation of authorial ...
... Judith Fetterley's " resisting reader " can come into being only if there is something to resist.4 41 Two examples may clarify how certain kinds of political criticism can be strengthened if they are built on a foundation of authorial ...
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... Judith Fetterley has cogently argued , in can- onical American literature universality is defined " in specifically male terms " 36 — a definition that automatically makes Gatsby a more " American " book than Edna , and hence more ...
... Judith Fetterley has cogently argued , in can- onical American literature universality is defined " in specifically male terms " 36 — a definition that automatically makes Gatsby a more " American " book than Edna , and hence more ...
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Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Rules of Signification | 76 |
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