Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of InterpretationHow 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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Specifically , 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 ...
Specifically , 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 ...
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Once again , authors may well choose to reverse the expectations they set up .
Thus , the shift of narrator toward the end of Goethe ' s Sorrows of Young Werther
is intended to wrench us emotionally , but it can work only for the reader who ...
Once again , authors may well choose to reverse the expectations they set up .
Thus , the shift of narrator toward the end of Goethe ' s Sorrows of Young Werther
is intended to wrench us emotionally , but it can work only for the reader who ...
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For 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 Czerwińsky and Bronisława Kast ...
For 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 Czerwińsky and Bronisława Kast ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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| Titolo | Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Theory and interpretation of narrative series |
| Autore | Peter J. Rabinowitz |
| Edizione | ristampa |
| Editore | Ohio State University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0814207596, 9780814207598 |
| Lunghezza | 249 pagine |
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