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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... metaphor about texts : text as seduction , text as fabric , text as abyss , text as system . I suppose that my metaphor 49. Ibid . , 63 . would have to be text as unassembled swing set . 37 Starting Points.
... metaphor about texts : text as seduction , text as fabric , text as abyss , text as system . I suppose that my metaphor 49. Ibid . , 63 . would have to be text as unassembled swing set . 37 Starting Points.
Pagina 78
... metaphor , " a statement that — except for its privileging of metaphor over other figures - accords quite comfortably with J. Hillis Miller's insistence that the " center of our discipline . is expertise in handling figurative language ...
... metaphor , " a statement that — except for its privileging of metaphor over other figures - accords quite comfortably with J. Hillis Miller's insistence that the " center of our discipline . is expertise in handling figurative language ...
Pagina 189
... metaphorical interpretation , just as the title The Sound and the Fury , by forcing us both into metaphor and into Shake- speare , steers us into the serious mode . The recurring religious imagery of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts ...
... metaphorical interpretation , just as the title The Sound and the Fury , by forcing us both into metaphor and into Shake- speare , steers us into the serious mode . The recurring religious imagery of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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