Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 08:27:50 CDT 2012
“the reader’s need to know where, in the world of values, he stands, that
is, to know where the author wants him to stand” (Booth. 73).
excerpted from a brief deiscussion from Booth, on the older,
"discredited" meaning or application of the term.
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Seems Paul's use of theme is the current one, according to Wikipedia ( this article could surely be expanded) and my definition is an older one.
>
> Mark, older than hip Paul....
>
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_(narrative)
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>> Sent from my iPad
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