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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... knowledge of Shakespeare influences their readings of The Sound and the Fury , the ways that fear of death by burial helps form experiences of " The Fall of the House of Usher , " the ways that knowledge of comic tradition influences ...
... knowledge of Shakespeare influences their readings of The Sound and the Fury , the ways that fear of death by burial helps form experiences of " The Fall of the House of Usher , " the ways that knowledge of comic tradition influences ...
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... knowledge of the actual readers who will pick up his or her book . Yet he or she cannot begin to fill up a blank page without making assumptions about the readers ' beliefs , knowledge , and familiarity with conventions . As a result ...
... knowledge of the actual readers who will pick up his or her book . Yet he or she cannot begin to fill up a blank page without making assumptions about the readers ' beliefs , knowledge , and familiarity with conventions . As a result ...
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... knowledge and beliefs that may well be extrapersonal - that is , not shared by the actual individual reader ( I , for instance , do not personally share the racist perspective of the authorial audience of Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die ) ...
... knowledge and beliefs that may well be extrapersonal - that is , not shared by the actual individual reader ( I , for instance , do not personally share the racist perspective of the authorial audience of Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die ) ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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