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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... mystery story and find the characters compar- ing literature and life : " You confess that you read detective stories , Miss Grey . You must know that any one who has a perfect alibi is always open to grave suspicion . " " Do you think ...
... mystery story and find the characters compar- ing literature and life : " You confess that you read detective stories , Miss Grey . You must know that any one who has a perfect alibi is always open to grave suspicion . " " Do you think ...
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... mystery of death been enacted before his eyes when another mystery just as inexplicable presented itself , calling to love and life . " 4 More often than not , though , authors rely on a set of unspoken agreements to get their readers ...
... mystery of death been enacted before his eyes when another mystery just as inexplicable presented itself , calling to love and life . " 4 More often than not , though , authors rely on a set of unspoken agreements to get their readers ...
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... Mystery stories " are exorcisms , stories with happy endings that could be classified with comedy because they settle the unsettling ” ( “ Literature High and Low : The Case of the Mystery Story , " in The Fate of Reading and Other ...
... Mystery stories " are exorcisms , stories with happy endings that could be classified with comedy because they settle the unsettling ” ( “ Literature High and Low : The Case of the Mystery Story , " in The Fate of Reading and Other ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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