READING AND INTERPRETING Literary Text Triangle APPROACH Literary Work Writer Reader Critical PERSPECTIVE ON LITERATURE LIFE THE WRITER CULTURE IDEAS CHARACTERS THE WORK STRUCTURE CULTURE THE READER LIFE PREVIOUS INTERPRETATION CONNECTIONS HISTORICAL CONTENT ARTISTIC LITERARY Three BASIC APPROACHES To Interpret Literature TEXT-ORIENTED APPROACHES – a reader may analyze a work of literature as complete in itself without relating it to the outside world Three BASIC APPROACHES To Interpret Literature AUTHOR-ORIENTED APPROACH – A reader may study an author’s life, time and culture to better understand the author’s work. Three BASIC APPROACHES To Interpret Literature READER-ORIENTED APPROACH - each reader brings a unique set of experiences and expectations to literature in it’s extreme form Literary APPRECIATION It is a form of close reading that involves the analysis and evaluation of a literary work. Literary APPRECIATION THREE LEVELS OF REALITY First level – clear ways impediments to the comprehension of the work’s literalness, that is, human condition as articulated through proper language. Literary APPRECIATION THREE LEVELS OF REALITY Second level – produces additional meanings when harmonized with the literal elements. Literary APPRECIATION THREE LEVELS OF REALITY Third level – compels the heart and mind to examine things in a newer manner. Literary APPRECIATION HOW TO READ A LITERARY TEXT 1. A text requires meaning only in the imagination of an actual reader Literary APPRECIATION HOW TO READ A LITERARY TEXT 2. One of the ways you can read a text is to look at readings made by other people Literary APPRECIATION HOW TO READ A LITERARY TEXT 3. A lot depends on why you are reading a text. Literary APPRECIATION HOW TO READ A LITERARY TEXT 4. You are not the first person to read a literary text. Literary APPRECIATION HOW TO READ A LITERARY TEXT 5. Everyone who reads a literary text necessarily adopts one of these theories even without knowing it. Literary APPRECIATION HOW TO READ A LITERARY TEXT 6. You can understand a novel, a poem or a play if you do not study literary theory. STAY SAFE Nag-aaLOVE, Sir Fhyr
