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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... readers depending upon such variables as class , gender , race , personality , training , culture , and historical situation . This difference among readers has always posed a problem for writers , one that has grown with increased ...
... readers depending upon such variables as class , gender , race , personality , training , culture , and historical situation . This difference among readers has always posed a problem for writers , one that has grown with increased ...
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... readers from different in- terpretive communities - readers who are using the text for differ- ent ends — may well find different things in it , and may well call on different kinds of evidence to support their claims : Marxists and ...
... readers from different in- terpretive communities - readers who are using the text for differ- ent ends — may well find different things in it , and may well call on different kinds of evidence to support their claims : Marxists and ...
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... readers that they should not apply the rule of imminent cataclysm in their reading of the text that follows . But the very fact that Stendhal felt the need to mark his text in this way is an indication of how strongly this rule pulls on ...
... readers that they should not apply the rule of imminent cataclysm in their reading of the text that follows . But the very fact that Stendhal felt the need to mark his text in this way is an indication of how strongly this rule pulls on ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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