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Literary Criticism Flash Cards 1
Literary Criticism Flash Cards 1
What do you find interesting about this text? What do you find interesting about this text?
What do you dislike about it? What do you dislike about it?
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You believe text is related to the You believe you can only
social context of its author and the historical make sense of a text when you see it in the
contexts in which it was written and read. context of its generic tradition.
Likewise, you are interested in the struggle You classify literature into genre categories
against injustice and oppression, chiefly types, e.g. thriller, comedy, romance then
between black and white. You look at what a judge it against the conventions of that genre.
text reveals about attitudes to social class, race You decide on the genre according to generally
and gender. accepted indicators and then measure the work
You want to read about the experiences of against other works in that genre.
writers outside the Anglo-Saxon tradition.
What do you find interesting about this text?
What do you find interesting about this text? What do you dislike about it?
What do you dislike about it? Sum the text up in a sentence
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