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. |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-3 di 58
Pagina 5
... puts it , " with strenuous effort . " In order to understand how New Critical principles represented what Richard Ohmann calls " a flight from politics , " let me begin by explaining more precisely what I mean by the politics of in ...
... puts it , " with strenuous effort . " In order to understand how New Critical principles represented what Richard Ohmann calls " a flight from politics , " let me begin by explaining more precisely what I mean by the politics of in ...
Pagina 108
... puts it , stressing the objective qualities of the text , " " The king died , and then the queen died ' is a story . ' The king died and then the queen died of grief ' is a plot . " 63 From the reader's perspective , though , one can put ...
... puts it , stressing the objective qualities of the text , " " The king died , and then the queen died ' is a story . ' The king died and then the queen died of grief ' is a plot . " 63 From the reader's perspective , though , one can put ...
Pagina 221
... puts it , that whaling ships are a better " sym- bol of the human community " than the sewing circle , 28 just as we have been taught simply not to notice the symbolic richness of women's worlds . As Annette Kolodny puts it , There was ...
... puts it , that whaling ships are a better " sym- bol of the human community " than the sewing circle , 28 just as we have been taught simply not to notice the symbolic richness of women's worlds . As Annette Kolodny puts it , There was ...
Sommario
Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
7 sezioni non visualizzate
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1987 |
Parole e frasi comuni
actual readers aesthetic American Anna Karenina appears appropriate argue assume assumptions author intended authorial audience authorial reading Barnes Barthes begin Big Sleep Booth Brooks canon chap chapter character claim Cleanth Brooks closure context conventions course Critical Inquiry Culler culture detective story discussion Dostoyevsky Edna expect experience fact fiction Fyodor Dostoyevsky Gatsby genre Glass Key Ideology Idiot instance interpretation Judith Fetterley kind least literary literature Madame Bovary Margaret Ayer Barnes Marlowe meaning metaphor misreading murder Mystery narrative audience narrator novel particular pattern perspective plot political popular Pratt puts Raymond Chandler realism reason Rhetoric Roland Barthes Romance rules of coherence rules of configuration rules of notice rules of signification sense Similarly simply social specific strategies stress structure tell textual Theory things tion traditional trans understanding University Press Vladimir Nabokov Wayne Booth woman words writing York