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 56
... follow its drift . In Nabokov's Lolita , Humbert Humbert chides a detective story for presenting its clues in ... follow that he or she is bound to follow those conven- tions rigidly . Quite often , rules will be twisted to special ends ...
... follow its drift . In Nabokov's Lolita , Humbert Humbert chides a detective story for presenting its clues in ... follow that he or she is bound to follow those conven- tions rigidly . Quite often , rules will be twisted to special ends ...
Pagina 112
... follow that the rule of configu- ration basic to the classical detective novel - the rule that leads us to expect justice to triumph in the end - is irrelevant to this text . Rather , as I shall argue in more detail in Chapter 6 , the ...
... follow that the rule of configu- ration basic to the classical detective novel - the rule that leads us to expect justice to triumph in the end - is irrelevant to this text . Rather , as I shall argue in more detail in Chapter 6 , the ...
Pagina 124
... follows . But the very fact that Stendhal felt the need to mark his text in this way is an indication of how strongly ... follow the same path in Margaret Ayer Barnes ' Edna His Wife from a decade later . But this is one of those areas ...
... follows . But the very fact that Stendhal felt the need to mark his text in this way is an indication of how strongly ... follow the same path in Margaret Ayer Barnes ' Edna His Wife from a decade later . But this is one of those areas ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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