Before reading
Subtitle: narrative conventions and the politics of interpretation
By: Peter J. Rabinowitz.
Series: Cornell paperbacks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric); Reading.; Hermeneutics.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 233-240.
Includes index.