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 123
... course , Some Do Not . was written for readers who did know something about the course of European history , which brings us to another rule often invoked by novels set in particular time periods - the rule of imminent cataclysm . If a ...
... course , Some Do Not . was written for readers who did know something about the course of European history , which brings us to another rule often invoked by novels set in particular time periods - the rule of imminent cataclysm . If a ...
Pagina 151
... course within textual gaps , the au- thorial audience can usually make correct inferences by applying the realism rule discussed in Chapter 3. Every literary text , as I've argued , depends on areas of congruence between the narrative ...
... course within textual gaps , the au- thorial audience can usually make correct inferences by applying the realism rule discussed in Chapter 3. Every literary text , as I've argued , depends on areas of congruence between the narrative ...
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... course , this failure to employ certain traditional rules of notice does not mean that other kinds of notice have not taken their place . In a novel based on different rules , however , crucial details may well be invisible to the ...
... course , this failure to employ certain traditional rules of notice does not mean that other kinds of notice have not taken their place . In a novel based on different rules , however , crucial details may well be invisible to the ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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