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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b1806160.
- catalog created "1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1987.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond readings/before reading -- Part 1: Narrative Conventions: -- 1: Starting points -- What is reading? -- Who is reading? -- Value(s) of authorial reading -- Difficulties of authorial reading -- Rules of reading -- 2: Trumpets, please! : rules of notice -- Hierarchy of detail -- Basic gestures of noticeability -- Privileged positions -- Rules of rupture -- 3: Biggest black eyes I ever saw: rules of signification -- Signification defined -- Rules of source -- Good guys and bad guys: rules of snap moral judgment -- Truth and the narrative audience: the rule of realism -- Post hoc and propter hoc: rules of cause -- 4: Black cloud on the horizon: rules of configuration -- Configuration vs coherence -- Basic rules of configuration -- Rules of undermining -- Rules of balance: focus -- Rules of balance: action -- 5: Austere simplicity of fiction: rules of coherence -- Nature of coherence -- License to fill -- Rules of surplus -- Rules of naming, bundling, and thermatizing -- Part 2: Politics Of Interpretation: -- 6: Through The Glass Key darkly: presupposition and misunderstanding -- Presuppositions and the ambiguity of interpretation -- Getting to the bottom of things -- Popular fiction as a genre -- Scapegoating Carmen: reading misreadings -- 7: Some have greatness thrust upon them: the politics of canon formation -- Selected bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 233-240.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 249 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Before reading.".
- catalog identifier "0801420105 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801494729 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Before reading.".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Before reading.".
- catalog subject "808 19".
- catalog subject "Hermeneutics.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PN212 .R33 1987".
- catalog subject "Reading.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond readings/before reading -- Part 1: Narrative Conventions: -- 1: Starting points -- What is reading? -- Who is reading? -- Value(s) of authorial reading -- Difficulties of authorial reading -- Rules of reading -- 2: Trumpets, please! : rules of notice -- Hierarchy of detail -- Basic gestures of noticeability -- Privileged positions -- Rules of rupture -- 3: Biggest black eyes I ever saw: rules of signification -- Signification defined -- Rules of source -- Good guys and bad guys: rules of snap moral judgment -- Truth and the narrative audience: the rule of realism -- Post hoc and propter hoc: rules of cause -- 4: Black cloud on the horizon: rules of configuration -- Configuration vs coherence -- Basic rules of configuration -- Rules of undermining -- Rules of balance: focus -- Rules of balance: action -- 5: Austere simplicity of fiction: rules of coherence -- Nature of coherence -- License to fill -- Rules of surplus -- Rules of naming, bundling, and thermatizing -- Part 2: Politics Of Interpretation: -- 6: Through The Glass Key darkly: presupposition and misunderstanding -- Presuppositions and the ambiguity of interpretation -- Getting to the bottom of things -- Popular fiction as a genre -- Scapegoating Carmen: reading misreadings -- 7: Some have greatness thrust upon them: the politics of canon formation -- Selected bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Before reading : narrative conventions and the politics of interpretation / Peter J. Rabinowitz.".
- catalog type "text".