Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of InterpretationOverview: 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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5 The Austere Simplicity of Fiction : Rules of Coherence " I've lost my faith in pure coincidence . Everything in life tends to hang together in a pattern . " Ross Macdonald , Black Money The Nature of Coherence Coherence ( or its ...
5 The Austere Simplicity of Fiction : Rules of Coherence " I've lost my faith in pure coincidence . Everything in life tends to hang together in a pattern . " Ross Macdonald , Black Money The Nature of Coherence Coherence ( or its ...
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True , like form , coherence has been difficult to define , in part because it occurs along so many literary axes . At times , coherence is defined as a formal relation among elements in the text itself ; that is how Culler ...
True , like form , coherence has been difficult to define , in part because it occurs along so many literary axes . At times , coherence is defined as a formal relation among elements in the text itself ; that is how Culler ...
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19 In arguing that coherence is more usefully discussed as an activity by readers rather than a property of texts , I am not arguing that the coherence that results is unintended by the author . The conventions by which we make novels ...
19 In arguing that coherence is more usefully discussed as an activity by readers rather than a property of texts , I am not arguing that the coherence that results is unintended by the author . The conventions by which we make novels ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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| Titolo | Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Cornell paperbacks Literary theory The Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative |
| Autore | Peter J. Rabinowitz |
| Editore | Cornell University Press, 1987 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 23 feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801420105, 9780801420108 |
| Lunghezza | 249 pagine |
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