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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... least in part as a critique of that convention . There are , in general , two directions such a critique can take . If the primary subject of the work in question is art itself , then we can assume that the convention is being ...
... least in part as a critique of that convention . There are , in general , two directions such a critique can take . If the primary subject of the work in question is art itself , then we can assume that the convention is being ...
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... least partial evidence , but I have been forced to modify that point of view for two reasons . First , even if readers do read as an author intended , we cannot be sure of their own predilections . For what- ever we feel about the ...
... least partial evidence , but I have been forced to modify that point of view for two reasons . First , even if readers do read as an author intended , we cannot be sure of their own predilections . For what- ever we feel about the ...
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... least in its focus . As Judith Fetterley provocatively puts it , " If a white male middle - class literary establishment consistently chooses to identify as great and thus worth reading those texts that present as central the lives of ...
... least in its focus . As Judith Fetterley provocatively puts it , " If a white male middle - class literary establishment consistently chooses to identify as great and thus worth reading those texts that present as central the lives of ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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