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 81
... narrator and as writer tried to take maximal distance was that of ordinary bour- geois stupidity . When this sort of cliché is employed in ' objective ' narration in Madame Bovary , it is often ( but not invariably ) ital- icized . " 13 ...
... narrator and as writer tried to take maximal distance was that of ordinary bour- geois stupidity . When this sort of cliché is employed in ' objective ' narration in Madame Bovary , it is often ( but not invariably ) ital- icized . " 13 ...
Pagina 82
... narrator to character . Sometimes it indicates a swing the opposite way , sometimes no shift at all . Indeed , Seymour Chatman even argues that it always signals a move to the narrator : " If we read in a narrative otherwise in the ...
... narrator to character . Sometimes it indicates a swing the opposite way , sometimes no shift at all . Indeed , Seymour Chatman even argues that it always signals a move to the narrator : " If we read in a narrative otherwise in the ...
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... narrator of the novel ( implicit or explicit ) is generally an imitation of an author.41 He or she writes for an im- itation audience ( which I call the narrative audience ) that also possesses particular knowledge . The narrator of War ...
... narrator of the novel ( implicit or explicit ) is generally an imitation of an author.41 He or she writes for an im- itation audience ( which I call the narrative audience ) that also possesses particular knowledge . The narrator of War ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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