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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... Chapter 1 and of the fourth section of Chapter 3 originally appeared in " Truth in Fiction : A Reexamina- tion of Audiences , " Critical Inquiry 4 ( Autumn 1977 ) ; portions of the fourth section of Chapter 3 and a brief snippet in the ...
... Chapter 1 and of the fourth section of Chapter 3 originally appeared in " Truth in Fiction : A Reexamina- tion of Audiences , " Critical Inquiry 4 ( Autumn 1977 ) ; portions of the fourth section of Chapter 3 and a brief snippet in the ...
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... chapter 3 jumps to Whitmonday , chapter 4 to an evening in July , chapter 5 to Sep- tember 2 , and chapters 6 and 7 take place the next winter . How do we know what is going on in the interstices ? Perhaps the most common procedure for ...
... chapter 3 jumps to Whitmonday , chapter 4 to an evening in July , chapter 5 to Sep- tember 2 , and chapters 6 and 7 take place the next winter . How do we know what is going on in the interstices ? Perhaps the most common procedure for ...
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... chapter , I will show in more detail how presuppositions interact with in- terpretation by examining more closely how readers might go about making sense of two specific novels - one a fairly arcane avant - garde text ( Witold ...
... chapter , I will show in more detail how presuppositions interact with in- terpretation by examining more closely how readers might go about making sense of two specific novels - one a fairly arcane avant - garde text ( Witold ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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