Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of InterpretationOverview: 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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Indian musical tunings , which sound quite normal to someone raised in Delhi , seem strange and exotic when heard against the norms of American popular songs - at least , they did until they , too , became an American pop norm .
Indian musical tunings , which sound quite normal to someone raised in Delhi , seem strange and exotic when heard against the norms of American popular songs - at least , they did until they , too , became an American pop norm .
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Evans , " F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry James : The Raw Material of American Innocence , " Notes on Modern American Literature 4 , item 8 ( 1980 ) . James E. Mil- ler , Jr. , also stresses the importance of " Daisy Miller " in ...
Evans , " F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry James : The Raw Material of American Innocence , " Notes on Modern American Literature 4 , item 8 ( 1980 ) . James E. Mil- ler , Jr. , also stresses the importance of " Daisy Miller " in ...
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Indeed , male texts - at least , American male texts from this peri- od - are apt to parody such concerns . In Raymond Chandler's " Red Wind , " Marlowe is having a beer in a bar when a man enters looking for a woman : " ' tall , pretty ...
Indeed , male texts - at least , American male texts from this peri- od - are apt to parody such concerns . In Raymond Chandler's " Red Wind , " Marlowe is having a beer in a bar when a man enters looking for a woman : " ' tall , pretty ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
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