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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... literary conventions that it applies to the text in order to transform it . As such critics as Culler are now making clearer , reading ( especially the reading of literature ) is not only not a natural activity - it is not even a ...
... literary conventions that it applies to the text in order to transform it . As such critics as Culler are now making clearer , reading ( especially the reading of literature ) is not only not a natural activity - it is not even a ...
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... literary texts . Given that Edna Losser is twenty in 1900 when Margaret Ayer Barnes ' Edna His Wife opens , we can reasonably infer — as the author intended us to - that she is in her fifties when the novel ends , in the early 1930s ...
... literary texts . Given that Edna Losser is twenty in 1900 when Margaret Ayer Barnes ' Edna His Wife opens , we can reasonably infer — as the author intended us to - that she is in her fifties when the novel ends , in the early 1930s ...
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... Literary Texts . " New Literary History 11 ( Spring 1980 ) : 451-67 . Krieger , Murray . Theory of Criticism : A Tradition and Its System . Bal- timore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1976 . LaCapra , Dominick . Madame Bovary on ...
... Literary Texts . " New Literary History 11 ( Spring 1980 ) : 451-67 . Krieger , Murray . Theory of Criticism : A Tradition and Its System . Bal- timore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1976 . LaCapra , Dominick . Madame Bovary on ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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