Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of InterpretationOverview: 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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Knowledge , for instance , of the possible effects on health of severe drenching (
at least in the early nineteenth ... Second , readers move in the reverse way , from
effect to cause , in order to determine why things are the way they are , or why ...
Knowledge , for instance , of the possible effects on health of severe drenching (
at least in the early nineteenth ... Second , readers move in the reverse way , from
effect to cause , in order to determine why things are the way they are , or why ...
Pagina 152
29 Jane Austen plays with this rule for comic effect in Mansfield Park . After the
novel ' s complications are resolved , and Edmund is finally on the verge of
realizing that he is in love with Fanny , she writes : I purposely abstain from dates
on this ...
29 Jane Austen plays with this rule for comic effect in Mansfield Park . After the
novel ' s complications are resolved , and Edmund is finally on the verge of
realizing that he is in love with Fanny , she writes : I purposely abstain from dates
on this ...
Pagina 168
The effect is that the reader begins to doubt all of the marriages — and perhaps
the institution itself . Or is that the intended effect ? Like all interpretations , this
one requires the application of rules that preexist the text and that may not be ...
The effect is that the reader begins to doubt all of the marriages — and perhaps
the institution itself . Or is that the intended effect ? Like all interpretations , this
one requires the application of rules that preexist the text and that may not be ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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| Titolo | Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Cornell paperbacks The Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative |
| Autore | Peter J. Rabinowitz |
| Editore | Cornell University Press, 1987 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of California |
| Digitalizzato | 28 mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801420105, 9780801420108 |
| Lunghezza | 249 pagine |
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