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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... simply bumped off ( like Tolstoy's Andrei ) or one were simply rejected , for we like them both , and this is not the sort of novel in which the tragedy of life or even the sadness of having to make difficult decisions seems a major ...
... simply bumped off ( like Tolstoy's Andrei ) or one were simply rejected , for we like them both , and this is not the sort of novel in which the tragedy of life or even the sadness of having to make difficult decisions seems a major ...
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... simply tell us in so many words that something is important . James Cain's chatty narrators are especially given to telling us where to direct our attention : " After the coop was built , " Leonard Borland tells us in Career in C Major ...
... simply tell us in so many words that something is important . James Cain's chatty narrators are especially given to telling us where to direct our attention : " After the coop was built , " Leonard Borland tells us in Career in C Major ...
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... simply the academy's stress of male objects themselves that skews the issue ; the process of symbolization itself , as taught , tends to be male . As Judith Fetterley has cogently argued , in can- onical American literature universality ...
... simply the academy's stress of male objects themselves that skews the issue ; the process of symbolization itself , as taught , tends to be male . As Judith Fetterley has cogently argued , in can- onical American literature universality ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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