AOE Subtitle Notes Areas of exploration are broad topics, each one of which helps you consider how to interpret literature from a different perspective • Readers, writers, and text • Time and space • Intertextuality, connecting texts Immanent Perspective: Study the text solely as a work of art. Engage with the text personally as a reader. You consider only its literary features or the convention of its type without considering time and place. Contextual Evidence: You take into account the background info of where and when the text was written, shaping your understanding of the work in context of its historical time and place. And you should consider if your understanding of the background influences your interpretation in a meaningful way. Concepts • Identity • Culture • Creativity • Communication • Perspectives • Transformation • Representation 1.Identity: A reader develops an understanding of an author's identity through reading the work; it serves as the evidence available to the reader for learning about the author (its related to perspective). Authors view is reflected in the work thru the characters. 2.Culture: Related to sociological approach. The value band beliefs of that culture will have influenced the author in terms of ow they see that world. The more you learn about the culture in which the literary work was created, the better you will understand some of the nuances of that work. (Particular moment in that geographical place) 3.Creativity: Every literary work is the result of an act creation. The author or poet or playwriter created the work itself. If the work is fiction, the writer created the characters, the actions, the dialogue and the settings. Readers can also be creative as well, in the way they interpret the text in their annotations and analysis. 4.Communication: The concept of identity. This occurs between the reader and the author but the author is communicating indirectly with the reader (not face to face). Symbols and messages in the work are understood differently by different audiences. 5.Perspective: Related to identity. The author creates characters with their own perspectives, and those perspectives may or may not line up with the author's perspective. Multiple perspectives exist in every work. To understand the perspectives in the work properly be open minded and non-biased. Accept what you are reading even though it does not match your opinion. 6.Transformation: Like when stories are made into movies or when texts are translated. Transformation refers to the variety of ways in which works are transformed from one thing to another. A familiar kind of transformation of a literary work id from written text to film, the movie version necessarily makes one choice out of many when the casting director chooses a particular actor. Such a choice will always disappoint – or even anger – some readers whose ideas are quite different to what the film portrays. Translation from one language to another presents many difficulties. Among the problems are: words that exist in the original language but do not exist in the language of translation, line length and stress patterns when trying to preserve meter in poetry or plays, sentence word order that differs from language to language, symbols that do not mean the same thing in different languages, and idioms which are different in different languages. 7.Representation: Representation focuses your attention on the relationship of a literary work to reality. How something fictional can actually happen in real life (this represents reality), an example of this is themes in fiction stories(the themes are realistic) When analyzing representation mostly analyze the themes (themes are always linked to reality in stories). Analyze language features and techniques the author uses to represent his ideas and the degree to which the work represents reality. 8.Global Issues: Related to several things such as -Culture, identity and community: this category might include investigation into the ways in which literary works depict gender, class, race, ethnicity or other cultural groups. -Beliefs, values and education: this category could include consideration of how a work depicts the connection between education and values or beliefs, and the ways in which communities define and disseminate their beliefs and values. -Politics, power and justice: this category includes all of the kinds of issues that arise in society – questions of equality, ruling classes, fair and unfair wielding of power, distribution of wealth, and the relationships between all of these. This category offers you the opportunity to think about what different societies consider to be the rights of citizens and how those rights are protected or undermined. -Art, creativity and the imagination: this category provides you with the opportunity to consider what works themselves have to say about the role of art in people’s lives. Art, in this case, is content, not medium. When you consider the course’s core concepts, you are considering the works as works of art themselves. When you are considering a work in the context of the global issue of art, you are noticing that the work is about art. -Science, technology and the environment: if a work explores questions of science and nature, you can consider it in the context of this global issue. Questions that might arise could be to do with the relationship between science and society or science and nature or nature and society. You could look at what the work suggests about the importance or effectiveness of scientific developments -In all of these categories, it would be useful to consider how different viewpoints come into conflict with each other.
