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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We have learned to tame this multiplicity with a number of implicit rules , shared by readers and writers alike ... Some rules of notice cover a wide spectrum of texts : for instance , there is the simple rule that titles are privileged ...
We have learned to tame this multiplicity with a number of implicit rules , shared by readers and writers alike ... Some rules of notice cover a wide spectrum of texts : for instance , there is the simple rule that titles are privileged ...
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But it does not follow that the rule of configuration basic to the classical detective novel — the rule that leads us to ... Readers apply rules of coherence , in contrast , to the work as a completed totality ( even though , of course ...
But it does not follow that the rule of configuration basic to the classical detective novel — the rule that leads us to ... Readers apply rules of coherence , in contrast , to the work as a completed totality ( even though , of course ...
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rule can be as important in texts that do not fulfill expectations as in those that do . Chester Himes disorients us in Blind Man with ... Some rules of action , though , are much more complex than the rules of repetition and parallel .
rule can be as important in texts that do not fulfill expectations as in those that do . Chester Himes disorients us in Blind Man with ... Some rules of action , though , are much more complex than the rules of repetition and parallel .
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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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