Before reading
Subtitle: narrative conventions and the politics of interpretation
By: Peter J. Rabinowitz ; with a foreword by James Phelan.
Series: The theory and interpretation of narrative series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric); Reading.; Hermeneutics.
Description: 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. Available again with a new introduction by James Phelan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.
Originally published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987, in series: Cornell paperbacks. With new Foreword.