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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Pagina 115
... Similarly , the Time Traveller of The Time Machine remarks , " I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding , but it came to my mind as an ingenious move . /// 11 But an author can be more concrete in prefiguring the course ...
... Similarly , the Time Traveller of The Time Machine remarks , " I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding , but it came to my mind as an ingenious move . /// 11 But an author can be more concrete in prefiguring the course ...
Pagina 129
... Similarly , when a novel begins I first met her , this girl you'll find soon enough , when she fished me out of the Sacramento River on an occasion when I was showing more originality than sense -we can reasonably assume that " this ...
... Similarly , when a novel begins I first met her , this girl you'll find soon enough , when she fished me out of the Sacramento River on an occasion when I was showing more originality than sense -we can reasonably assume that " this ...
Pagina 213
... similarly with the difficulties of the long climb up through the American class structure — and , coincidentally , with misplaced Midwesterners in New York . Edna is clearly a novel with something to offer , at least to some readers ...
... similarly with the difficulties of the long climb up through the American class structure — and , coincidentally , with misplaced Midwesterners in New York . Edna is clearly a novel with something to offer , at least to some readers ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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