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. |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-3 di 23
Pagina 56
... stress as well . Todd's dis- covery itself , for instance , is printed partly in italics . Changes in typeface help guide the reader's attention in Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses , Don't They ? just as Manuel Puig's use of typography ...
... stress as well . Todd's dis- covery itself , for instance , is printed partly in italics . Changes in typeface help guide the reader's attention in Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses , Don't They ? just as Manuel Puig's use of typography ...
Pagina 70
... stress - that is , unless they are given specifically formulaic emphases . ( Thus , as I have suggested , the fireside chat of the detective story is stressed because that is precisely its for- mulaic purpose - to point out an event ...
... stress - that is , unless they are given specifically formulaic emphases . ( Thus , as I have suggested , the fireside chat of the detective story is stressed because that is precisely its for- mulaic purpose - to point out an event ...
Pagina 79
... stressed so often , it is only the most naive reader who makes gross errors on this score - who confuses Jason with ... stress - the furors surrounding the publications of Madame Bovary and Lolita , for instance - such niceties are ...
... stressed so often , it is only the most naive reader who makes gross errors on this score - who confuses Jason with ... stress - the furors surrounding the publications of Madame Bovary and Lolita , for instance - such niceties are ...
Sommario
Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
7 sezioni non visualizzate
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Peter J. Rabinowitz Visualizzazione estratti - 1987 |
Parole e frasi comuni
actual readers aesthetic American Anna Karenina appears appropriate argue assume assumptions author intended authorial audience authorial reading Barnes Barthes begin Big Sleep Booth Brooks canon chap chapter character claim Cleanth Brooks closure context conventions course Critical Inquiry Culler culture detective story discussion Dostoyevsky Edna expect experience fact fiction Fyodor Dostoyevsky Gatsby genre Glass Key Ideology Idiot instance interpretation Judith Fetterley kind least literary literature Madame Bovary Margaret Ayer Barnes Marlowe meaning metaphor misreading murder Mystery narrative audience narrator novel particular pattern perspective plot political popular Pratt puts Raymond Chandler realism reason Rhetoric Roland Barthes Romance rules of coherence rules of configuration rules of notice rules of signification sense Similarly simply social specific strategies stress structure tell textual Theory things tion traditional trans understanding University Press Vladimir Nabokov Wayne Booth woman words writing York