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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... kind of distancing from the actual audience , from one's own immediate needs and interests . This distancing , however , must be distinguished sharply from the apparently similar kind of objectivity , represented in its baldest form by ...
... kind of distancing from the actual audience , from one's own immediate needs and interests . This distancing , however , must be distinguished sharply from the apparently similar kind of objectivity , represented in its baldest form by ...
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... kind of marker , a signal , in a word : a detail jutting out above the plane surface of the text , providing the would - be interpreter or literary detective with a ' handle ' on the text . " 20 Similarly , the authorial 17. Cain ...
... kind of marker , a signal , in a word : a detail jutting out above the plane surface of the text , providing the would - be interpreter or literary detective with a ' handle ' on the text . " 20 Similarly , the authorial 17. Cain ...
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... kind of relationship to have — indeed , what kind of relationship he is already having— with Janet Henry . One of his major clues about what is going on in her mind is a dream that she tells him , a dream that climaxes in an attempt to ...
... kind of relationship to have — indeed , what kind of relationship he is already having— with Janet Henry . One of his major clues about what is going on in her mind is a dream that she tells him , a dream that climaxes in an attempt to ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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