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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... plot- stressed event since we know that , whatever happens , their rela- tionship will be permanently altered . ( 3 ) When an event or a detail answers a question around which a narrative has been based , it is emphasized . Thus , the ...
... plot- stressed event since we know that , whatever happens , their rela- tionship will be permanently altered . ( 3 ) When an event or a detail answers a question around which a narrative has been based , it is emphasized . Thus , the ...
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... plot dis- tinction of E. M. Forster ( Aspects of the Novel ) . Story and plot , of course , are textual categories , rather than classes of reader activities . More important , story is a matter of chronology , whereas configuration is ...
... plot dis- tinction of E. M. Forster ( Aspects of the Novel ) . Story and plot , of course , are textual categories , rather than classes of reader activities . More important , story is a matter of chronology , whereas configuration is ...
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... plot itself does not demand , and the ar- tificiality of the convention is thus foregrounded almost as much as it ... plotted.55 Indeed , it is specifically because of his refusal to apply certain kinds of rules- in part because he ...
... plot itself does not demand , and the ar- tificiality of the convention is thus foregrounded almost as much as it ... plotted.55 Indeed , it is specifically because of his refusal to apply certain kinds of rules- in part because he ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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