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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... Coherence " I've lost my faith in pure coincidence . Everything in life tends to hang together in a pattern . " Ross Macdonald , Black Money The Nature of Coherence Coherence ( or its frequent surrogate , unity ) has held a high rank in ...
... Coherence " I've lost my faith in pure coincidence . Everything in life tends to hang together in a pattern . " Ross Macdonald , Black Money The Nature of Coherence Coherence ( or its frequent surrogate , unity ) has held a high rank in ...
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... coherence has been difficult to define , in part because it occurs along so many literary axes . At times , coherence is defined as a formal relation among elements in the text itself ; that is how Culler , for instance , sees it when ...
... coherence has been difficult to define , in part because it occurs along so many literary axes . At times , coherence is defined as a formal relation among elements in the text itself ; that is how Culler , for instance , sees it when ...
Pagina 147
... coherence is more usefully discussed as an ac- tivity by readers rather than a property of texts , I am not arguing that the coherence that results is unintended by the author . The conventions by which we make novels coherent can ...
... coherence is more usefully discussed as an ac- tivity by readers rather than a property of texts , I am not arguing that the coherence that results is unintended by the author . The conventions by which we make novels coherent can ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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