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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... Culler's notion of competence , see Pratt , " Interpretive Strategies / Strategic Interpretations , " esp . 215-21 . Pratt points out that , as Culler uses the concept , literary competence can end up as a theoretical justification for ...
... Culler's notion of competence , see Pratt , " Interpretive Strategies / Strategic Interpretations , " esp . 215-21 . Pratt points out that , as Culler uses the concept , literary competence can end up as a theoretical justification for ...
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... Culler calls " symbolic recuperation , " which , in contrast to " em- pirical recuperation . . . operates where causal connections are ab- sent .... We would presumably be unwilling to assume a causal connection between a perfect or a ...
... Culler calls " symbolic recuperation , " which , in contrast to " em- pirical recuperation . . . operates where causal connections are ab- sent .... We would presumably be unwilling to assume a causal connection between a perfect or a ...
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... Culler , for instance , sees it when he lists " the binary opposition , the dialectical resolution of a binary opposition , [ and ] the displacement of an unresolved opposition by a third term " among the basic types of unity.4 ...
... Culler , for instance , sees it when he lists " the binary opposition , the dialectical resolution of a binary opposition , [ and ] the displacement of an unresolved opposition by a third term " among the basic types of unity.4 ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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