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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This is all , obviously , too much for a single work , and my aim here will be considerably narrower : to explore , through concrete analysis of particular texts , the ways in which Western readers ' prior knowledge of conventions of ...
This is all , obviously , too much for a single work , and my aim here will be considerably narrower : to explore , through concrete analysis of particular texts , the ways in which Western readers ' prior knowledge of conventions of ...
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This particular closure is common under these circum- stances - but less so in adult fiction - because in our culture chil- dren's stories often serve the social function of preparing children to go to sleep .
This particular closure is common under these circum- stances - but less so in adult fiction - because in our culture chil- dren's stories often serve the social function of preparing children to go to sleep .
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If such subjectivists as Robert Crosman and David Bleich were right that readers " make " the texts they read , then there would be no particular reason to change our practices either , since no choices would be demonstra- bly better ...
If such subjectivists as Robert Crosman and David Bleich were right that readers " make " the texts they read , then there would be no particular reason to change our practices either , since no choices would be demonstra- bly better ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
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