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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... 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 . But again , with authorial reading one can go further to explore the ...
... 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 . But again , with authorial reading one can go further to explore the ...
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... 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 dearly for it , that it would cost him great striving , great suffering . 18 In ...
... 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 dearly for it , that it would cost him great striving , great suffering . 18 In ...
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... looks either a friend or an enemy , wait- ing to be known . " 28 It is no accident that Wells gives the hero of The ... look . Sometimes we are asked to judge by the quality of a voice per se ( note Ippolit's squeaky voice in The Idiot ...
... looks either a friend or an enemy , wait- ing to be known . " 28 It is no accident that Wells gives the hero of The ... look . Sometimes we are asked to judge by the quality of a voice per se ( note Ippolit's squeaky voice in The Idiot ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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