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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... once he or she has made certain initial decisions , any writer who wishes to communicate - even if he or she wishes to communicate ambiguity - has limited the range of subsequent choices . Some of those limitations spring from what ...
... once he or she has made certain initial decisions , any writer who wishes to communicate - even if he or she wishes to communicate ambiguity - has limited the range of subsequent choices . Some of those limitations spring from what ...
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... once again cited for the details of his narration . Similarly , John O'Hara heightens the sense of closure in Appoint- ment in Samarra by beginning with the thoughts of Luther Fliegler - who turns out to be a minor character — and then ...
... once again cited for the details of his narration . Similarly , John O'Hara heightens the sense of closure in Appoint- ment in Samarra by beginning with the thoughts of Luther Fliegler - who turns out to be a minor character — and then ...
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... once readers start reading with the suspicion 8. Merivale , " The Aesthetics of Perversion : Gothic Artifice in Henry James and Witold Gombrowicz , " PMLA 93 ( 1978 ) : 993. See also the claim by Edward Czer- wińsky and Bronisława Kast ...
... once readers start reading with the suspicion 8. Merivale , " The Aesthetics of Perversion : Gothic Artifice in Henry James and Witold Gombrowicz , " PMLA 93 ( 1978 ) : 993. See also the claim by Edward Czer- wińsky and Bronisława Kast ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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