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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If , for instance , a text proffers a series of variations on the same story ( as , say , Absalom , Absalom ! and Anthony Berkeley's Poisoned Choco- lates Case do ) , we are generally to accept the final version , rather than one in the ...
If , for instance , a text proffers a series of variations on the same story ( as , say , Absalom , Absalom ! and Anthony Berkeley's Poisoned Choco- lates Case do ) , we are generally to accept the final version , rather than one in the ...
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Thus Emma Woodhouse's final perception of herself - her recognition of her snobbish and meddlesome nature , her altered views on marriage and her relation to Mr. Knightley— is to be considered by the reader as wiser and more ...
Thus Emma Woodhouse's final perception of herself - her recognition of her snobbish and meddlesome nature , her altered views on marriage and her relation to Mr. Knightley— is to be considered by the reader as wiser and more ...
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Now it is true that such unresolved endings are sometimes round- ed off with a desultory closing of the door , such as the final para- graph of Crime and Punishment , which follows the passage just cited . But that is the beginning of a ...
Now it is true that such unresolved endings are sometimes round- ed off with a desultory closing of the door , such as the final para- graph of Crime and Punishment , which follows the passage just cited . But that is the beginning of a ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
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