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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... readers ' prior knowledge of conventions of reading shapes their experiences and evaluations of the narratives they confront . In other words , this book is neither a complete theory of reading nor a complete taxonomy of narrative ...
... readers ' prior knowledge of conventions of reading shapes their experiences and evaluations of the narratives they confront . In other words , this book is neither a complete theory of reading nor a complete taxonomy of narrative ...
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... reading is more than just an- other among a large set of equally valid and equally important ways of approaching a text . Authorial reading has a special status for at least two reasons . First , while Knapp and Michaels are wrong that ...
... reading is more than just an- other among a large set of equally valid and equally important ways of approaching a text . Authorial reading has a special status for at least two reasons . First , while Knapp and Michaels are wrong that ...
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... reading , Tolstoy's misogynist text is indistinguishable from feminist irony . Similarly , reading Jane Eyre in the context of Jean Rhys ' Wide Sargasso Sea - and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria - provides a use- ful perspective that ...
... reading , Tolstoy's misogynist text is indistinguishable from feminist irony . Similarly , reading Jane Eyre in the context of Jean Rhys ' Wide Sargasso Sea - and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria - provides a use- ful perspective that ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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