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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... rules , shared by readers and writers alike , that give priority to certain kinds of details , and that thus help us sort out figures from ground by making a hierarchy of importance . Some rules of notice cover a wide spectrum of texts ...
... rules , shared by readers and writers alike , that give priority to certain kinds of details , and that thus help us sort out figures from ground by making a hierarchy of importance . Some rules of notice cover a wide spectrum of texts ...
Pagina 46
... rules interact with one another in ways that we may never understand , even though we seem to have little difficulty putting them into practice intuitively . Thus , for instance , rules of notice would seem to precede rules of ...
... rules interact with one another in ways that we may never understand , even though we seem to have little difficulty putting them into practice intuitively . Thus , for instance , rules of notice would seem to precede rules of ...
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... rules that readers are asked to apply within each category . Take rules of notice . Although specific rules of notice vary considerably within subgenres , there are three general ways in which operations of notice differ radically ...
... rules that readers are asked to apply within each category . Take rules of notice . Although specific rules of notice vary considerably within subgenres , there are three general ways in which operations of notice differ radically ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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