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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Thus , when we pick up Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick and find a chipper young street urchin polishing shoes , the authorial audience — which is radically different from Flaubert's - will expect his lot in life to improve .
Thus , when we pick up Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick and find a chipper young street urchin polishing shoes , the authorial audience — which is radically different from Flaubert's - will expect his lot in life to improve .
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oracle , it is reasonable to expect that he will be shown up . When , in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig , Mary Bellmont's illness arouses " no serious apprehensions " in her parents , the authorial audience can reasonably expect the ...
oracle , it is reasonable to expect that he will be shown up . When , in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig , Mary Bellmont's illness arouses " no serious apprehensions " in her parents , the authorial audience can reasonably expect the ...
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As a general rule , we expect that strong attractions and dissonances between major characters in novels will have consequences ; the more notice that such attractions and dissonances are given , the stronger our expectations will be .
As a general rule , we expect that strong attractions and dissonances between major characters in novels will have consequences ; the more notice that such attractions and dissonances are given , the stronger our expectations will be .
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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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