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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... action , conventions that govern our expectations about what will happen . As with the rules of signification , the rules of configuration for reading narrative need to be modified for reading critical texts be- cause of the difference ...
... action , conventions that govern our expectations about what will happen . As with the rules of signification , the rules of configuration for reading narrative need to be modified for reading critical texts be- cause of the difference ...
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... action or paraphrase as verifications of understanding . I will leave for some other book the vexed relationship between action and understanding ( although I believe one can argue that there is a sense in which a racist whose actions ...
... action or paraphrase as verifications of understanding . I will leave for some other book the vexed relationship between action and understanding ( although I believe one can argue that there is a sense in which a racist whose actions ...
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... Action Rules of balance regarding focus restrict the world that a novel will inhabit ; rules of balance regarding action inform us about the events that will take place in the book to come . One of the most elementary rules is that it ...
... Action Rules of balance regarding focus restrict the world that a novel will inhabit ; rules of balance regarding action inform us about the events that will take place in the book to come . One of the most elementary rules is that it ...
Sommario
NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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