Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of InterpretationCornell University Press, 1987 - 249 pagine Overview: 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. |
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... Judith Fetterley , The Resisting Reader Whatever critical affiliations we may proclaim , we are all New Critics , in that it requires a strenuous effort to escape notions of the autonomy of the literary work , the importance of dem ...
... Judith Fetterley , The Resisting Reader Whatever critical affiliations we may proclaim , we are all New Critics , in that it requires a strenuous effort to escape notions of the autonomy of the literary work , the importance of dem ...
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... Judith Fetterley has cogently argued , in can- onical American literature universality is defined " in specifically male terms " 36 - a definition that automatically makes Gatsby a more " American " book than Edna , and hence more ...
... Judith Fetterley has cogently argued , in can- onical American literature universality is defined " in specifically male terms " 36 - a definition that automatically makes Gatsby a more " American " book than Edna , and hence more ...
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... Judith Fetterley provocatively puts it , " If a white male middle - class literary establishment consistently chooses to identify as great and thus worth reading those texts that present as central the lives of white male middle - class ...
... Judith Fetterley provocatively puts it , " If a white male middle - class literary establishment consistently chooses to identify as great and thus worth reading those texts that present as central the lives of white male middle - class ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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