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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... Barnes ' 1935 novel , Edna His Wife , since it deals similarly with the difficulties of the long climb up through the American class structure — and , coincidentally , with misplaced Midwesterners in New York . Edna is clearly a novel ...
... Barnes ' 1935 novel , Edna His Wife , since it deals similarly with the difficulties of the long climb up through the American class structure — and , coincidentally , with misplaced Midwesterners in New York . Edna is clearly a novel ...
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... Barnes ' novel . But that novel shows us what makes Barnes ' task so difficult . Goodwin is a male , and since men ( especially military men ) have adventures in our society , even the most dull - witted among them have more novel ...
... Barnes ' novel . But that novel shows us what makes Barnes ' task so difficult . Goodwin is a male , and since men ( especially military men ) have adventures in our society , even the most dull - witted among them have more novel ...
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... Barnes - to the extent that she is mentioned at all - are likewise built into our prefabricated ways of reading . To say that the " range of her fiction appears extremely narrow " when compared to Fitzgerald's , 50 much less to ...
... Barnes - to the extent that she is mentioned at all - are likewise built into our prefabricated ways of reading . To say that the " range of her fiction appears extremely narrow " when compared to Fitzgerald's , 50 much less to ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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