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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Pagina 66
... seems to be no apparent reason for it , the surface of the text is ruptured ; most of the time , such ruptures are appropriately treated as signals to pay attention . This is especially true when the irrelevance itself is explicitly ...
... seems to be no apparent reason for it , the surface of the text is ruptured ; most of the time , such ruptures are appropriately treated as signals to pay attention . This is especially true when the irrelevance itself is explicitly ...
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... seems no sense to their structures or to their systems of signification . Such works are rarely the subject of critical discussion either . For the most part they remain un- published — a sign that literature maintains higher quality ...
... seems no sense to their structures or to their systems of signification . Such works are rarely the subject of critical discussion either . For the most part they remain un- published — a sign that literature maintains higher quality ...
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... seems to be trying to make a statement about the world , we will start off assuming that the convention is being ... seem but a variant of the traditional Cinderella pattern . In this plot , an impoverished but deserving person is ...
... seems to be trying to make a statement about the world , we will start off assuming that the convention is being ... seem but a variant of the traditional Cinderella pattern . In this plot , an impoverished but deserving person is ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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