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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... treating it as a matter of social convention rather than of individual psychology . In other words , my perspective allows us to treat the reader's at- tempt to read as the author intended , not as a search for the author's private ...
... treating it as a matter of social convention rather than of individual psychology . In other words , my perspective allows us to treat the reader's at- tempt to read as the author intended , not as a search for the author's private ...
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... treat the work either as what it is or as what it appears to be ; we must be aware simultaneously of both aspects . A reader is hardly responding to the Sherlock Holmes stories as the author intended if he or she treats him as a ...
... treat the work either as what it is or as what it appears to be ; we must be aware simultaneously of both aspects . A reader is hardly responding to the Sherlock Holmes stories as the author intended if he or she treats him as a ...
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... treat their titles , on the whole , as broadly descriptive ( they give clues about genre and general content ) and discriminatory ( they help distinguish one book from another so that we will know whether we have read it already ) ...
... treat their titles , on the whole , as broadly descriptive ( they give clues about genre and general content ) and discriminatory ( they help distinguish one book from another so that we will know whether we have read it already ) ...
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NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS | 3 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1987 |
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