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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... appropriate paradigms for the experience of reading narrative . Let me point out , too , that the range of texts is more restricted in the last chapter and a half , where I engage in more sustained analy- ses of particular novels . Here ...
... appropriate paradigms for the experience of reading narrative . Let me point out , too , that the range of texts is more restricted in the last chapter and a half , where I engage in more sustained analy- ses of particular novels . Here ...
Pagina 71
... appropriate background group for a given text usually in- cludes the previous works by the same author : the science fiction elements in Doris Lessing's later novels stand out more sharply against the stark realism of her earlier books ...
... appropriate background group for a given text usually in- cludes the previous works by the same author : the science fiction elements in Doris Lessing's later novels stand out more sharply against the stark realism of her earlier books ...
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... appropriate to it . Surely , whether a given actual reader sees the ending of Allworth Abbey ( or , for that matter , the formally similar ending of Sense and Sensibility ) as subversive will depend to a large extent on his or her ...
... appropriate to it . Surely , whether a given actual reader sees the ending of Allworth Abbey ( or , for that matter , the formally similar ending of Sense and Sensibility ) as subversive will depend to a large extent on his or her ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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