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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... plot dis- tinction of E. M. Forster ( Aspects of the Novel ) . Story and plot , of course , are textual categories , rather than classes of reader activities . More important , story is a matter of chronology , whereas configuration is ...
... plot dis- tinction of E. M. Forster ( Aspects of the Novel ) . Story and plot , of course , are textual categories , rather than classes of reader activities . More important , story is a matter of chronology , whereas configuration is ...
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... plot oriented , psychological novels more character oriented . Recast in my terminology , his remarks suggest that when we read popular fiction , we tend to stress operations of configuration , while in reading psychological novels , we ...
... plot oriented , psychological novels more character oriented . Recast in my terminology , his remarks suggest that when we read popular fiction , we tend to stress operations of configuration , while in reading psychological novels , we ...
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... plot structure and implied social val- ue means , among other things , that the actions of those with ac- cess to power ( with its corollary , violence ) lend themselves to sharply outlined patterns of the sort we have been taught to ...
... plot structure and implied social val- ue means , among other things , that the actions of those with ac- cess to power ( with its corollary , violence ) lend themselves to sharply outlined patterns of the sort we have been taught to ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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