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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... literature , it is hard to know , in " The Teacher of Literature , " precisely how to take Shebaldin's criticism of Nikitin for his lack of familiarity with Lessing , or how to interpret Nikitin's consequent despair . Jane Gray's ...
... literature , it is hard to know , in " The Teacher of Literature , " precisely how to take Shebaldin's criticism of Nikitin for his lack of familiarity with Lessing , or how to interpret Nikitin's consequent despair . Jane Gray's ...
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... literature tends to be more rather than less didactic than earlier literature , in part because the beliefs which earlier writers could assume they could presup- pose as cultural givens in their readers now have to be made explicit ...
... literature tends to be more rather than less didactic than earlier literature , in part because the beliefs which earlier writers could assume they could presup- pose as cultural givens in their readers now have to be made explicit ...
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... Literature and Lan- guage 22 ( Summer 1980 ) : 224-45 . Radway , Janice . Reading the Romance : Women , Patriarchy , and Popular Literature . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1984 . Riffaterre , Michael . " Describing ...
... Literature and Lan- guage 22 ( Summer 1980 ) : 224-45 . Radway , Janice . Reading the Romance : Women , Patriarchy , and Popular Literature . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1984 . Riffaterre , Michael . " Describing ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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