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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... close reading , contending that the privileging of close reading means we value only certain kinds of texts , especially those already canonized , and that it limits the number and range of texts we read . He obviously chooses a ...
... close reading , contending that the privileging of close reading means we value only certain kinds of texts , especially those already canonized , and that it limits the number and range of texts we read . He obviously chooses a ...
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... close bonnet , for instance , looks very demure , and never says a word . " 16 A text , then , has a hierarchical organization of details : we do not attend to everything equally . To be sure , there are many forms of attention . Some ...
... close bonnet , for instance , looks very demure , and never says a word . " 16 A text , then , has a hierarchical organization of details : we do not attend to everything equally . To be sure , there are many forms of attention . Some ...
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... close ; the narrative audience is asked to accept very little beyond the beliefs of the authorial audience and virtually nothing that seriously contradicts those beliefs . Thus , while the narrative audience believes that Isabel exists ...
... close ; the narrative audience is asked to accept very little beyond the beliefs of the authorial audience and virtually nothing that seriously contradicts those beliefs . Thus , while the narrative audience believes that Isabel exists ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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