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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... thorial audience ( whatever they may call it ) —that is , even among readers who share ties to the same critical methodologies - there are bound to be disagreements that literary theory can explain but never erase . For even within a ...
... thorial audience ( whatever they may call it ) —that is , even among readers who share ties to the same critical methodologies - there are bound to be disagreements that literary theory can explain but never erase . For even within a ...
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... thorial audience , except where there is some evidence to the con- trary , either in the text or in literary conventions . This principle can be broken down into two parts . First , there are areas of overlap between the two audiences ...
... thorial audience , except where there is some evidence to the con- trary , either in the text or in literary conventions . This principle can be broken down into two parts . First , there are areas of overlap between the two audiences ...
Pagina 163
... thorial audience . Take , for instance , Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson . At first , the text may seem but a variant of the traditional Cinderella pattern . In this plot , an impoverished but deserving person is cruelly abused , even ...
... thorial audience . Take , for instance , Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson . At first , the text may seem but a variant of the traditional Cinderella pattern . In this plot , an impoverished but deserving person is cruelly abused , even ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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