The Reader and the Text: Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures - Brossura

Sorensen Goodrich, Diana

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0915027607 ISBN 13: 9780915027606

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 1986

Riassunto

The shift toward the reader's task may be said to stem from a double source: the questioning of the sleuthlike approach to a text aiming at the discovery and explication of the author's intended meaning, coupled with the recognition that the work, liberated from its dependence on the authorial voice, will generate a wealth of meanings through acts of reading. Chapter 1 of this volume charts the conventions that operate at the threshold of the textual encounter as preliminary reading contracts which may shape ensuing operations. Chapter 2 shows the extent to which the reader's world knowledge is put to work in and by the decodification process. Chapter 3 sets out to outline how the reader's knowledge of genre and the intertextual repertoire is put to work. After exploring the areas that this hypothetical competence may cover, the study moves toward the related concept of performance in a final chapter entitled "Text Processing." Here again there is an assembly of perspectives through which the reading process is approached: the phenomenology of reading, text theory and semiotics, models of linguistic comprehension, and cognitive psychology have all been put to work in order to throw light on the complex operations presupposed by the act of reading.

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Book by Goodrich Diana Sorensen

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0915027607
• ISBN 13: 9780915027606
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162
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