BEFORE READING: NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS AND THE POLITICS O
by PETER J. RABINOWITZ
The Ohio State University Press, 1998
Paper: 978-0-8142-0759-8
Library of Congress Classification PN212.R33 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 808
TOC
- Contents
- Foreword:
- Before Reading in Its Own Terms
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction:
- Beyond Readings/Before Reading
- Part I.
- Narrative Conventions
- 1
- Starting Points
- What Is Reading?
- Who Is Reading?
- The Value(s) of Authorial Reading
- The Difficulties of Authorial Reading
- Rules of Reading
- 2
- Trumpets, Please!: Rules of Notice
- The Hierarchy of Detail
- Basic Gestures of Noticeability
- Privileged Positions
- Rules of Rupture
- 3
- The 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
- The 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
- The Austere Simplicity of Fiction: Rules of Coherence
- The Nature of Coherence
- License to Fill
- Rules of Surplus
- Rules of Naming, Bundling, and Thematizing
- Part II.
- The 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
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