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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... and Jane's - treatment of Bertha and suggests that we look behind her function as a convenient Gothic plot device to consider her as a significant character who has been driven mad by her social and economic conditions .
... and Jane's - treatment of Bertha and suggests that we look behind her function as a convenient Gothic plot device to consider her as a significant character who has been driven mad by her social and economic conditions .
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At the beginning of their happiness at some moments they were both ready to look on those seven years as though they were seven days . He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing , that he would have to pay ...
At the beginning of their happiness at some moments they were both ready to look on those seven years as though they were seven days . He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing , that he would have to pay ...
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As the narrator of Owen Wister's Virginian puts it , " Out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an ... eyeballs were lavender " ) — we know a great deal more about the characters than simply what they look like.29 As a ...
As the narrator of Owen Wister's Virginian puts it , " Out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an ... eyeballs were lavender " ) — we know a great deal more about the characters than simply what they look like.29 As a ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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| Titolo | Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Cornell paperbacks Literary theory The Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative |
| Autore | Peter J. Rabinowitz |
| Editore | Cornell University Press, 1987 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 23 feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801420105, 9780801420108 |
| Lunghezza | 249 pagine |
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