Before Reading,9780814207598

Before Reading

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ISBN13: 9780814207598
ISBN10: 0814207596
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-03-01
Publisher(s): Ohio State Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Before Reading in Its Own Terms ix(18)
Acknowledgments xxvii
Introduction: Beyond Readings/Before Reading 1(14)
PART I. NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS 15(158)
1 Starting Points
15(32)
What Is Reading?
15(5)
Who Is Reading?
20(9)
The Value(s) of Authorial Reading
29(7)
The Difficulties of Authorial Reading
36(6)
Rules of Reading
42(5)
2 Trumpets, Please!: Rules of Notice
47(29)
The Hierarchy of Detail
47(5)
Basic Gestures of Noticeability
52(6)
Privileged Positions
58(7)
Rules of Rupture
65(11)
3 The Biggest Black Eyes I Ever Saw: Rules of Signification
76(34)
Signification Defined
76(3)
Rules of Source
79(5)
Good Guys and Bad Guys: Rules of Snap Moral Judgment
84(9)
Truth and the Narrative Audience: The Rule of Realism
93(11)
Post Hoc and Propter Hoc: Rules of Cause
104(6)
4 The Black Cloud on the Horizon: Rules of Configuration
110(31)
Configuration vs. Coherence
110(3)
Basic Rules of Configuration
113(6)
Rules of Undermining
119(6)
Rules of Balance: Focus
125(7)
Rules of Balance: Action
132(9)
5 The Austere Simplicity of Fiction: Rules of Coherence
141(32)
The Nature of Coherence
141(7)
License to Fill
148(6)
Rules of Surplus
154(4)
Rules of Naming, Bundling, and Thematizing
158(15)
PART II. THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION 173(60)
6 Through The Glass Key Darkly: Presupposition and Misunderstanding
173(36)
Presuppositions and the Ambiguity of Interpretation
173(5)
Getting to the Bottom of Things
178(5)
Popular Fiction as a Genre
183(10)
Scapegoating Carmen: Reading Misreadings
193(16)
7 Some Have Greatness Thrust upon Them: The Politics of Canon Formation
209(24)
Selected Bibliography 233(8)
Index 241

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