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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... limited group of texts , often culture - specific or national . " 18 Still , even without that kind of study , it seems safe to claim that the relationship between a theory and the texts called upon to exemplify it works both ways ...
... limited group of texts , often culture - specific or national . " 18 Still , even without that kind of study , it seems safe to claim that the relationship between a theory and the texts called upon to exemplify it works both ways ...
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... limited perspective of one of the characters — that is , when we are seeing what one of the characters sees — we can often assume that the words we are read- ing represent what the character is saying or thinking . Thus , Nabokov opens ...
... limited perspective of one of the characters — that is , when we are seeing what one of the characters sees — we can often assume that the words we are read- ing represent what the character is saying or thinking . Thus , Nabokov opens ...
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... like Dostoyevsky - rely on their reader's application of rules of focus to support closure . Anton Lavrent'evich , the narrator of Dos- toyevsky's Possessed , offers a limited perspective on events at 126 Narrative Conventions.
... like Dostoyevsky - rely on their reader's application of rules of focus to support closure . Anton Lavrent'evich , the narrator of Dos- toyevsky's Possessed , offers a limited perspective on events at 126 Narrative Conventions.
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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