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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... specific location ( Los Angeles ) and the specific date ( New Year's Eve , 1933 ) . As a general rule , when a newsworthy event is described with enough specificity that the reader could , in fact , look it up in a newspaper , the ...
... specific location ( Los Angeles ) and the specific date ( New Year's Eve , 1933 ) . As a general rule , when a newsworthy event is described with enough specificity that the reader could , in fact , look it up in a newspaper , the ...
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... specific text is at least in part a product of the assump- tions with which he or she approaches it , including assumptions about the rules appropriate for transforming it . In this chapter , I will show in more detail how ...
... specific text is at least in part a product of the assump- tions with which he or she approaches it , including assumptions about the rules appropriate for transforming it . In this chapter , I will show in more detail how ...
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... specific readers than in a general methodological procedure . My primary point is that whatever the specific interpretive strategy that per- mits it to happen , the scapegoating of Carmen does not take place in the novel ; rather , it ...
... specific readers than in a general methodological procedure . My primary point is that whatever the specific interpretive strategy that per- mits it to happen , the scapegoating of Carmen does not take place in the novel ; rather , it ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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