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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... criticism was to describe the formal unity of a text ; but in practice , especially when New Critics were studying fiction , description often gave way to interpretation . Literary critics , to a large extent , were considered expert ...
... criticism was to describe the formal unity of a text ; but in practice , especially when New Critics were studying fiction , description often gave way to interpretation . Literary critics , to a large extent , were considered expert ...
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... critics antagonistic to New Criticism , there is widespread appreciation of its democratic tendencies . See Ohmann's claim that New Criticism " at least aimed toward a democracy of critical ideas , available to all " ( English in ...
... critics antagonistic to New Criticism , there is widespread appreciation of its democratic tendencies . See Ohmann's claim that New Criticism " at least aimed toward a democracy of critical ideas , available to all " ( English in ...
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... critics discuss co- herence , their true subject is less a quality in the text or the author than an activity on the part of the readers ( or , more particularly , their public representatives , literary critics ) —what Susan Horton has ...
... critics discuss co- herence , their true subject is less a quality in the text or the author than an activity on the part of the readers ( or , more particularly , their public representatives , literary critics ) —what Susan Horton has ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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