Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation by James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz

Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation

James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz

249 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

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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 c...

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