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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... simply that we need to know conventions in order to read Joyce ; even the simplest literary artifact ( say , a comic strip ) calls nonlinguistic conventions ( such as the left - to - right spatial representation of the passage of time ) ...
... simply that we need to know conventions in order to read Joyce ; even the simplest literary artifact ( say , a comic strip ) calls nonlinguistic conventions ( such as the left - to - right spatial representation of the passage of time ) ...
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... simply cannot agree on how to take them . Thus , for instance , interpretations of Dos- toyevsky's Double differ depending on how readers respond to the signals and what beliefs they consequently assume the narrative audience to hold ...
... simply cannot agree on how to take them . Thus , for instance , interpretations of Dos- toyevsky's Double differ depending on how readers respond to the signals and what beliefs they consequently assume the narrative audience to hold ...
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... simply an attack on an irrational economic structure ; as a woman , her crime is simply an attack on bourgeois , patriarchal respectability . In the end , she is a victim whose sacrifice solves nothing , although it salves male pride ...
... simply an attack on an irrational economic structure ; as a woman , her crime is simply an attack on bourgeois , patriarchal respectability . In the end , she is a victim whose sacrifice solves nothing , although it salves male pride ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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