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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... assumes that his readers know Hamlet before reading Rosen- crantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ) . Sometimes authors assume that our higher motives will triumph ( Dostoyevsky assumes that we are capable of sympathy for the sufferings of ...
... assumes that his readers know Hamlet before reading Rosen- crantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ) . Sometimes authors assume that our higher motives will triumph ( Dostoyevsky assumes that we are capable of sympathy for the sufferings of ...
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... assume we have learned , and that allow us to make the appro- priate judgments ourselves . Many of these rules are closely related to the New Critical doctrine of consistency of character . Although I would not agree with Brooks and ...
... assume we have learned , and that allow us to make the appro- priate judgments ourselves . Many of these rules are closely related to the New Critical doctrine of consistency of character . Although I would not agree with Brooks and ...
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... assume , in the absence of instruc- tions to the contrary , that the undermining of a convention is to be read at least in part as a critique of that convention . There are , in general , two directions such a critique can take . If the ...
... assume , in the absence of instruc- tions to the contrary , that the undermining of a convention is to be read at least in part as a critique of that convention . There are , in general , two directions such a critique can take . If the ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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