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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... and accurately edited of texts , there are many ( perhaps all ) where neither
scholarship nor imagination is sufficient to allow us to recover the text in the
sense of experiencing the full response that the author intended us to have as we
read .
... and accurately edited of texts , there are many ( perhaps all ) where neither
scholarship nor imagination is sufficient to allow us to recover the text in the
sense of experiencing the full response that the author intended us to have as we
read .
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The lifeand literature discussions in Pirandello ' s plays are intended to be read
against a different intertextual grid than those in Christie , and in this context they
are no longer mere filler . It would be just as wrong to ignore them in a reading of
...
The lifeand literature discussions in Pirandello ' s plays are intended to be read
against a different intertextual grid than those in Christie , and in this context they
are no longer mere filler . It would be just as wrong to ignore them in a reading of
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though in so doing he risked destroying his intended effect , for the reader who
expects balance loses the intended shock . What applies to the perspective from
which a novel is narrated applies as well to its central character or characters .
though in so doing he risked destroying his intended effect , for the reader who
expects balance loses the intended shock . What applies to the perspective from
which a novel is narrated applies as well to its central character or characters .
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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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