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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... question , but also on the reader's sharing of the author's judgments about those works . Without some knowledge of ... questions . Truth and the Narrative Audience : The Rule of Realism When I said above that Jason's statement ( in The ...
... question , but also on the reader's sharing of the author's judgments about those works . Without some knowledge of ... questions . Truth and the Narrative Audience : The Rule of Realism When I said above that Jason's statement ( in The ...
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... question , " How will this , in all probability , work out ? " while rules of coherence allow us to answer the question , " If it works out in that way , how will I account for this particular element ? " Once we have finished the text ...
... question , " How will this , in all probability , work out ? " while rules of coherence allow us to answer the question , " If it works out in that way , how will I account for this particular element ? " Once we have finished the text ...
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... question of the readers ' motives for reading the novel as they do is only half the question . Even if I am right about why they do so , we still have to confront the even more vexing question of how they do so . For while readers tend ...
... question of the readers ' motives for reading the novel as they do is only half the question . Even if I am right about why they do so , we still have to confront the even more vexing question of how they do so . For while readers tend ...
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Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Rules of Signification | 76 |
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