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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Pagina 174
... misreadings in order to illuminate the political pressures implicit behind them . Before getting to actual cases , however , it is necessary both to reiterate how I am using the term misreading in this book and to distinguish among ...
... misreadings in order to illuminate the political pressures implicit behind them . Before getting to actual cases , however , it is necessary both to reiterate how I am using the term misreading in this book and to distinguish among ...
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... misreading ( and in fact could be an extremely illuminating interpretive performance ) if the interpreter is uninterested in reading the text as Nabokov wished ; but a reader is misreading if he or she assumes that the application of ...
... misreading ( and in fact could be an extremely illuminating interpretive performance ) if the interpreter is uninterested in reading the text as Nabokov wished ; but a reader is misreading if he or she assumes that the application of ...
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... misreadings are widespread rather than idiosyncratic - and I would argue that such persistent misreading usually has its origins , not in the readers as individuals , but in the culture that has taught them to read . We can therefore ...
... misreadings are widespread rather than idiosyncratic - and I would argue that such persistent misreading usually has its origins , not in the readers as individuals , but in the culture that has taught them to read . We can therefore ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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