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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... reading public . An au- thor has , in most cases , no firm knowledge of the actual readers who will pick up his or her book . Yet he or she cannot begin to fill up a blank page without making assumptions about the readers ' beliefs ...
... reading public . An au- thor has , in most cases , no firm knowledge of the actual readers who will pick up his or her book . Yet he or she cannot begin to fill up a blank page without making assumptions about the readers ' beliefs ...
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... actual audience does not ) , the gap can often be bridged through education . The reader of The Catacombs who does not know the date of Ken- nedy's assassination can be informed . But knowledge can also be negative . That is , sometimes ...
... actual audience does not ) , the gap can often be bridged through education . The reader of The Catacombs who does not know the date of Ken- nedy's assassination can be informed . But knowledge can also be negative . That is , sometimes ...
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... actual reader's interpreta- tion of a specific text is at least in part a ... readers might go about making sense of two specific novels - one a fairly ... readers to cor- rect ones . Rather , my aim is to offer concrete examples of an ...
... actual reader's interpreta- tion of a specific text is at least in part a ... readers might go about making sense of two specific novels - one a fairly ... readers to cor- rect ones . Rather , my aim is to offer concrete examples of an ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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