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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... woman the guilty party . Indeed , there seems to be a rule precisely to the contrary , one sufficiently strong to enable Agatha Christie to base an entire novel ( I will not spoil it by telling you which one ) on the assumption that ...
... woman the guilty party . Indeed , there seems to be a rule precisely to the contrary , one sufficiently strong to enable Agatha Christie to base an entire novel ( I will not spoil it by telling you which one ) on the assumption that ...
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... woman . In our culture , we have a number of categories in which to place women , but they tend to fall into pairs of binary oppositions : madonna / whore , good girl / bad girl , vic- tim / villain . This tendency to dichotomize leads ...
... woman . In our culture , we have a number of categories in which to place women , but they tend to fall into pairs of binary oppositions : madonna / whore , good girl / bad girl , vic- tim / villain . This tendency to dichotomize leads ...
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... woman who is bland to her very core , and thus shows that the ungifted woman is crushed by social inequities , too , simply be- cause she is a woman . For this reason , she has had to create a heroine whose limita- tions are frankly ...
... woman who is bland to her very core , and thus shows that the ungifted woman is crushed by social inequities , too , simply be- cause she is a woman . For this reason , she has had to create a heroine whose limita- tions are frankly ...
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Beyond ReadingsBefore Reading | 1 |
Starting Points | 15 |
Rules of Notice | 47 |
Copyright | |
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