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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... kind of distancing from the actual audience , from one's own immediate needs and interests . This distancing , however , must be distinguished sharply from the apparently similar kind of objectivity , represented in its baldest form by ...
... kind of distancing from the actual audience , from one's own immediate needs and interests . This distancing , however , must be distinguished sharply from the apparently similar kind of objectivity , represented in its baldest form by ...
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... kind of relationship to have — indeed , what kind of relationship he is already having— with Janet Henry . One of his major clues about what is going on in her mind is a dream that she tells him , a dream that climaxes in an attempt ...
... kind of relationship to have — indeed , what kind of relationship he is already having— with Janet Henry . One of his major clues about what is going on in her mind is a dream that she tells him , a dream that climaxes in an attempt ...
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... kind of life is worth telling about , and hence what kind of life is most worth living . Thus , for instance , the aesthetic value of well - roundedness , of consistently returning characters , privileges a certain kind of life and ...
... kind of life is worth telling about , and hence what kind of life is most worth living . Thus , for instance , the aesthetic value of well - roundedness , of consistently returning characters , privileges a certain kind of life and ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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