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BEFORE READING: NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS AND THE POLITICS O
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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