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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Pagina 89
... asked to judge characters by their names . This is not only the case with clearly allegorical names ( Dostoyevsky's Golyadkin , from " naked " ) , or only in dis- plays of linguistic virtuosity ( the famous guest list in The Great ...
... asked to judge characters by their names . This is not only the case with clearly allegorical names ( Dostoyevsky's Golyadkin , from " naked " ) , or only in dis- plays of linguistic virtuosity ( the famous guest list in The Great ...
Pagina 92
... asked to transfer judgments when characters are explicitly or implicitly compared to characters in a previous , familiar text - we should , for instance , have already made a judgment about the heroine of Leskov's " Lady Macbeth of the ...
... asked to transfer judgments when characters are explicitly or implicitly compared to characters in a previous , familiar text - we should , for instance , have already made a judgment about the heroine of Leskov's " Lady Macbeth of the ...
Pagina 97
... asked to accept the single fantastic fact that Gregor has been transformed into a gigantic beetle ; in all other respects the narrative audience is a normal , level - headed bourgeois audience . Furthermore , we are asked to accept this ...
... asked to accept the single fantastic fact that Gregor has been transformed into a gigantic beetle ; in all other respects the narrative audience is a normal , level - headed bourgeois audience . Furthermore , we are asked to accept this ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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