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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Not all novels privilege opening and closing sentences ; different genres stress different points to different degrees . Still , it is telling that novels that do not privilege the opening often make some linguistic gesture to signal ...
Not all novels privilege opening and closing sentences ; different genres stress different points to different degrees . Still , it is telling that novels that do not privilege the opening often make some linguistic gesture to signal ...
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The opening of Marcel Aymé's " Le Passe - muraille , ” for instance , clearly tells us that , in this story , the narrative au- dience believes that it is possible to walk through walls . But since there is no signal that the narrative ...
The opening of Marcel Aymé's " Le Passe - muraille , ” for instance , clearly tells us that , in this story , the narrative au- dience believes that it is possible to walk through walls . But since there is no signal that the narrative ...
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To return to The High Cost of Living : the opening points to Leslie as a main character , but it also suggests that sex is likely to be a major topic in the subsequent text . It is not simply that sex is given a privileged position .
To return to The High Cost of Living : the opening points to Leslie as a main character , but it also suggests that sex is likely to be a major topic in the subsequent text . It is not simply that sex is given a privileged position .
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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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