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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... context — at least if meaning is taken broadly to include tone , emphasis , and connotation - then no utterance is ever synonymous even with itself : you cannot step into the same meaning twice.4 But paraphrase need not imply identity ...
... context — at least if meaning is taken broadly to include tone , emphasis , and connotation - then no utterance is ever synonymous even with itself : you cannot step into the same meaning twice.4 But paraphrase need not imply identity ...
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... context in which Ibsen expected the play to be produced , the action itself was shock- ing , even though it may seem less so now . In contrast , a contempo- rary American reader of Chekhov's " Lady with the Dog , " living in a social ...
... context in which Ibsen expected the play to be produced , the action itself was shock- ing , even though it may seem less so now . In contrast , a contempo- rary American reader of Chekhov's " Lady with the Dog , " living in a social ...
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... context of some rules of configura- tion , and it can only be the curve that the author intended in the context of those rules expected of the authorial audience . Still , this is not the only kind of meaning that texts have . After we ...
... context of some rules of configura- tion , and it can only be the curve that the author intended in the context of those rules expected of the authorial audience . Still , this is not the only kind of meaning that texts have . After we ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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