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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... Madame Bovary , therefore , the prosecutor Pinard had reasonable critical justification for start- ing with the title in order to get at the novel's central meaning.30 First sentences operate in a similar way . " All happy families re ...
... Madame Bovary , therefore , the prosecutor Pinard had reasonable critical justification for start- ing with the title in order to get at the novel's central meaning.30 First sentences operate in a similar way . " All happy families re ...
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... Madame Bovary and Lolita , for instance - such niceties are often forgotten . And the hazy area where fiction and autobiography melt into one another ( as in Remembrance of Things Past or Trop- ic of Cancer ) often finds even ...
... Madame Bovary and Lolita , for instance - such niceties are often forgotten . And the hazy area where fiction and autobiography melt into one another ( as in Remembrance of Things Past or Trop- ic of Cancer ) often finds even ...
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... Madame Bovary , it is often ( but not invariably ) ital- icized . " 13 Similarly , when the narrator , Vandyke Jennings , in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland notes , " Terry , in his secret heart , had visions of a sort of sublimated ...
... Madame Bovary , it is often ( but not invariably ) ital- icized . " 13 Similarly , when the narrator , Vandyke Jennings , in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland notes , " Terry , in his secret heart , had visions of a sort of sublimated ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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