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 15
... determine whether someone else is understanding . Most people , however , have certain implicit but nonetheless ... determining understanding , for in our culture certain IS Starting Points What Is Reading?
... determine whether someone else is understanding . Most people , however , have certain implicit but nonetheless ... determining understanding , for in our culture certain IS Starting Points What Is Reading?
Pagina 104
... determine the future course of a novel they are reading . Knowledge , for instance , of the possible effects on health of severe drenching ( at least in the early nineteenth century ) helps the reader predict what will happen when Jane ...
... determine the future course of a novel they are reading . Knowledge , for instance , of the possible effects on health of severe drenching ( at least in the early nineteenth century ) helps the reader predict what will happen when Jane ...
Pagina 194
... determine Dostoyevsky's attitudes toward Ro- man Catholicism by reading The Idiot , just as we can learn Pro- ust's ... determining the nature of the authorial audience - specifying the presuppositions on which a text is built - can ...
... determine Dostoyevsky's attitudes toward Ro- man Catholicism by reading The Idiot , just as we can learn Pro- ust's ... determining the nature of the authorial audience - specifying the presuppositions on which a text is built - can ...
Sommario
Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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