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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... detective sto- ry . " It has a murder ; it has an adequate collection of ... story of the pure and simple Katherine Grey , who has just inher- ited a ... detective story can offer : the rush of " Oh ! I should have caught that ...
... detective sto- ry . " It has a murder ; it has an adequate collection of ... story of the pure and simple Katherine Grey , who has just inher- ited a ... detective story can offer : the rush of " Oh ! I should have caught that ...
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... Detective Story , " for instance , Twain - assuming that his readers will apply the rule permitting us to skim nature descrip- tions in a nineteenth - century detective story — begins his fourth chapter with the following evocation : It ...
... Detective Story , " for instance , Twain - assuming that his readers will apply the rule permitting us to skim nature descrip- tions in a nineteenth - century detective story — begins his fourth chapter with the following evocation : It ...
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... detective story . It calls on us to apply the genre's basic rule of notice that virtually any detail can turn out to be important ; it also calls on us to use the genre's familiar rules of configuration to put together such elements as ...
... detective story . It calls on us to apply the genre's basic rule of notice that virtually any detail can turn out to be important ; it also calls on us to use the genre's familiar rules of configuration to put together such elements as ...
Sommario
Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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