Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.


Chapter 2, p. 67 (See also: Northrop Frye) - Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

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Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to...

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to...

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to...

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to...