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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... the reader's attention in Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses , Don't They ? just as Manuel Puig's use of typography in The Kiss of the Spider Woman highlights shifts in the narrative that are crucial if we are to follow its drift .
... the reader's attention in Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses , Don't They ? just as Manuel Puig's use of typography in The Kiss of the Spider Woman highlights shifts in the narrative that are crucial if we are to follow its drift .
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But it does not follow that the rule of configuration basic to the classical detective novel — the rule that leads us to expect justice to triumph in the end - is irrelevant to this text . Rather , as I shall argue in more detail in ...
But it does not follow that the rule of configuration basic to the classical detective novel — the rule that leads us to expect justice to triumph in the end - is irrelevant to this text . Rather , as I shall argue in more detail in ...
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But critics do not always follow through on the implications of this terminology . For if we take this usage seriously , it suggests that genres can be seen not only in the traditional way as patterns or models that writers follow in ...
But critics do not always follow through on the implications of this terminology . For if we take this usage seriously , it suggests that genres can be seen not only in the traditional way as patterns or models that writers follow in ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1987 |
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