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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... Criticism . " Yet deeply ingrained ideologies are no more easily escaped when they are aesthetic than when they are political , and New Criticism remains a pedal point beneath our literary studies . It is not only , as Lentric- chia ...
... Criticism . " Yet deeply ingrained ideologies are no more easily escaped when they are aesthetic than when they are political , and New Criticism remains a pedal point beneath our literary studies . It is not only , as Lentric- chia ...
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... Criticism obscured these relations between interpretation and politics in several ways . Most obviously , New Criticism tend- ed to dehistoricize literary texts . David Daiches ' claim that " ide- ally ... every poem , as a self ...
... Criticism obscured these relations between interpretation and politics in several ways . Most obviously , New Criticism tend- ed to dehistoricize literary texts . David Daiches ' claim that " ide- ally ... every poem , as a self ...
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... Criticism's ahistorical slant , tended to make the individual student count by promising that he or she too could , with practice , read well . But the scholarly impact was less salutary , for by equating the positions of the critic and ...
... Criticism's ahistorical slant , tended to make the individual student count by promising that he or she too could , with practice , read well . But the scholarly impact was less salutary , for by equating the positions of the critic and ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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| Titolo | Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Cornell paperbacks Literary theory The Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative |
| Autore | Peter J. Rabinowitz |
| Editore | Cornell University Press, 1987 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 23 feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801420105, 9780801420108 |
| Lunghezza | 249 pagine |
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