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Glossary of Literary Theory |
Horizon of expectation
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The purview or vista of a text or reader, the set of historically, psychologically,
and culturally conditioned assumptions or conventions that are implicit
either in the verbal meaning of a text or in the interpretive strategy
of a reader. (See also Hermeneutics.)
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