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 156
... final perception of herself - her recognition of her snobbish and meddlesome nature , her altered views on marriage and her relation to Mr. Knightley- is to be considered by the reader as wiser and more understanding than those views ...
... final perception of herself - her recognition of her snobbish and meddlesome nature , her altered views on marriage and her relation to Mr. Knightley- is to be considered by the reader as wiser and more understanding than those views ...
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... final sentence : the inversion indicates regression because it is assumed be- forehand to have thematic value . See also Jonathan Culler's claim that " The Waste Land can be unified by thematizing its formal discontinuities ...
... final sentence : the inversion indicates regression because it is assumed be- forehand to have thematic value . See also Jonathan Culler's claim that " The Waste Land can be unified by thematizing its formal discontinuities ...
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... final jolt to her self - esteem comes when Edna learns that , for the last fifteen years , Paul has been having an affair with Katharine Boyne , a fa- mous sculptress of whom she has never heard . Behind the straightforward story is a ...
... final jolt to her self - esteem comes when Edna learns that , for the last fifteen years , Paul has been having an affair with Katharine Boyne , a fa- mous sculptress of whom she has never heard . Behind the straightforward story is a ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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