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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... surprise that the detective reader experiences : a satisfy- ing , Austenesque confirmation of expectations . These ... surprised and not surprised by the ending of The Mystery of the Blue Train . 4I Starting Points.
... surprise that the detective reader experiences : a satisfy- ing , Austenesque confirmation of expectations . These ... surprised and not surprised by the ending of The Mystery of the Blue Train . 4I Starting Points.
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... surprised by the suc- cess with which it worked , for it turned out that except for the presence of the oesophagus ... surprise ending of Nabokov's " Vane Sisters " also plays on confusion about the appropriate rules of notice . As I ...
... surprised by the suc- cess with which it worked , for it turned out that except for the presence of the oesophagus ... surprise ending of Nabokov's " Vane Sisters " also plays on confusion about the appropriate rules of notice . As I ...
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... surprise ( to surprise , after all , is not necessarily to contradict ) but that seem , when we get to them , flagrantly to defy what has come before - which end , as Ives ' Second Symphony 43. Forster , Aspects of the Novel , 66 . does ...
... surprise ( to surprise , after all , is not necessarily to contradict ) but that seem , when we get to them , flagrantly to defy what has come before - which end , as Ives ' Second Symphony 43. Forster , Aspects of the Novel , 66 . does ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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