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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... Marlowe . One can easily read this as a reference to Conrad's Marlow and draw symbolic conclusions from the paral- lels thus revealed between , say , The Big Sleep ( the novel where Marlowe first appeared ) and Heart of Darkness . But ...
... Marlowe . One can easily read this as a reference to Conrad's Marlow and draw symbolic conclusions from the paral- lels thus revealed between , say , The Big Sleep ( the novel where Marlowe first appeared ) and Heart of Darkness . But ...
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... Marlowe's . Chandler was especially fond of this device ; in the later novels , Marlowe is mirrored , in different ways , by such characters as Mrs. Murdock , Lindsay Marriott , Moose Malloy , and especially Paul Marston . In this case ...
... Marlowe's . Chandler was especially fond of this device ; in the later novels , Marlowe is mirrored , in different ways , by such characters as Mrs. Murdock , Lindsay Marriott , Moose Malloy , and especially Paul Marston . In this case ...
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... Marlowe's final despair , but rather his knightly - albeit muted - triumph . In other words , the text has been misread in such a way that it appears to provide a resolution . Even John Cawelti touts Marlowe in The Big Sleep as an ...
... Marlowe's final despair , but rather his knightly - albeit muted - triumph . In other words , the text has been misread in such a way that it appears to provide a resolution . Even John Cawelti touts Marlowe in The Big Sleep as an ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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