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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... Story , " for instance , Twain - assuming that his readers will apply the rule permitting us to skim nature descrip- tions in a nineteenth - century detective story - begins his fourth chapter with the following evocation : It was a ...
... Story , " for instance , Twain - assuming that his readers will apply the rule permitting us to skim nature descrip- tions in a nineteenth - century detective story - begins his fourth chapter with the following evocation : It was a ...
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... story / plot dis- tinction of E. M. Forster ( Aspects of the Novel ) . Story and plot , of course , are textual categories , rather than classes of reader activities . More important , story is a matter of chronology , whereas ...
... story / plot dis- tinction of E. M. Forster ( Aspects of the Novel ) . Story and plot , of course , are textual categories , rather than classes of reader activities . More important , story is a matter of chronology , whereas ...
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... story - the story of the gradual renewal of a man , the story of his gradual regeneration , of his passing from one world into another , of his initiation into a new unknown life . That might be the subject of a new story , but our present ...
... story - the story of the gradual renewal of a man , the story of his gradual regeneration , of his passing from one world into another , of his initiation into a new unknown life . That might be the subject of a new story , but our present ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
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