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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... argue , significantly influences the ways in which they interpret ( and consequently evaluate ) texts.3 Thus , while I will often need , in the course of my argument , to describe what readers do both while they read and after they ...
... argue , significantly influences the ways in which they interpret ( and consequently evaluate ) texts.3 Thus , while I will often need , in the course of my argument , to describe what readers do both while they read and after they ...
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... argument that follows , I will be talking about this second kind of closure . More particularly , I would argue that many real- istic writers prefer endings in which the full consequences of the 46. Mark Twain , Pudd'nhead Wilson , in ...
... argument that follows , I will be talking about this second kind of closure . More particularly , I would argue that many real- istic writers prefer endings in which the full consequences of the 46. Mark Twain , Pudd'nhead Wilson , in ...
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Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz. he argues , value is a matter of the " degree to which the work lends itself to " the " kind of treatment " New Critical theory demands.2 This , I would argue ...
Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz. he argues , value is a matter of the " degree to which the work lends itself to " the " kind of treatment " New Critical theory demands.2 This , I would argue ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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