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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... aesthetic enjoyment of this text . And New Critical dogma to the contrary , it is not simply in works of lesser aesthetic quality that this problem 47. Thomas Dixon , Jr. , The Leopard's Spots : A Romance of the White Man's Burden ...
... aesthetic enjoyment of this text . And New Critical dogma to the contrary , it is not simply in works of lesser aesthetic quality that this problem 47. Thomas Dixon , Jr. , The Leopard's Spots : A Romance of the White Man's Burden ...
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... aesthetic views are also morally correct , while those with aesthetic failings have moral failings as well . We should not be surprised when Mar- ianne , in Sense and Sensibility , turns out to have - at least by the standards of the ...
... aesthetic views are also morally correct , while those with aesthetic failings have moral failings as well . We should not be surprised when Mar- ianne , in Sense and Sensibility , turns out to have - at least by the standards of the ...
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... Aesthetic Response . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1978 . The Implied Reader : Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1974 . Jakobson , Roman , and ...
... Aesthetic Response . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1978 . The Implied Reader : Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1974 . Jakobson , Roman , and ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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