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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... course , is a slippery concept . Although there are many ways to define it , recurring difficulties crop up whenever it is seen in terms of the relationship between the novel and some external , em- pirically verifiable world . For that ...
... course , is a slippery concept . Although there are many ways to define it , recurring difficulties crop up whenever it is seen in terms of the relationship between the novel and some external , em- pirically verifiable world . For that ...
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... course , Some Do Not . . . was written for readers who did know something about the course of European history , which brings us to another rule often invoked by novels set in particular time periods — the rule of imminent cataclysm ...
... course , Some Do Not . . . was written for readers who did know something about the course of European history , which brings us to another rule often invoked by novels set in particular time periods — the rule of imminent cataclysm ...
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... course , have been widely discussed by critics from W. H. Auden to S. S. Van Dine , and different critics have listed them in different ways . Nonetheless , there are three rules that show up implicitly or explicitly on nearly every ...
... course , have been widely discussed by critics from W. H. Auden to S. S. Van Dine , and different critics have listed them in different ways . Nonetheless , there are three rules that show up implicitly or explicitly on nearly every ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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