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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At the beginning of their happiness at some moments they were both ready to
look on those seven years as though they were seven days . He did not know that
the new life would not be given him for nothing , that he would have to pay dearly
...
At the beginning of their happiness at some moments they were both ready to
look on those seven years as though they were seven days . He did not know that
the new life would not be given him for nothing , that he would have to pay dearly
...
Pagina 88
As the narrator of Owen Wister ' s Virginian puts it , " Out of the eyes of every
stranger looks either a friend or an enemy ... their eyeballs were lavender ' ) —
we know a great deal more about the characters than simply what they look like .
As the narrator of Owen Wister ' s Virginian puts it , " Out of the eyes of every
stranger looks either a friend or an enemy ... their eyeballs were lavender ' ) —
we know a great deal more about the characters than simply what they look like .
Pagina 161
To exemplify the process , I would like to look at some of the ways that the
expectations aroused by the second metarule of configuration — the metarule
that leads us to expect balance in a text , to expect that the ending will somehow
be ...
To exemplify the process , I would like to look at some of the ways that the
expectations aroused by the second metarule of configuration — the metarule
that leads us to expect balance in a text , to expect that the ending will somehow
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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