21st Century

Literature from the

Philippines and the
World
Objectives:

Identify words, ideas, structure, and purpose

of the text
Explore the different social and socio-cultural
contexts to enhance and enrich the
understanding of the text

Appreciate the importance of understanding

the literary context and its meaning to one’s
own life experiences.
 What is Context?
Background

Environment Surrounding
Setting of Events

Occurrences
 Getting out
Understanding of the text
the text itself

Deeper
Understanding

CONTEXT
Appreciation
of the Text
 PURPOSE
A way to enable readers
to understand the
narrative or a literary
piece more

It also necessary in writing

to provide information,
new concepts, and
words to develop
thoughts
 Four Types of
Literary Context
WRITER’S CONTEXT

READER’S CONTEXT

TEXT’S CONTEXT

SOCIAL CONTEXT AND

SOCIO-CULTURAL
Do the lives of the
Authors influence their
writings?
 WRITER’S CONTEXT

This involves knowing about the

writer's life, values, assumptions,
gender, race, sexual orientation,
and the political and economic
issues related to the author.
 Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the writer or the author?
2. What is her/his educational
background?
3. What is her/his personal information?
4. How do these affect/influence the
text?
READER’S CONTEXT

This involves about the reader's

previous reading experience,
values, assumptions, political
and economic issues.
 Answer the following questions:
1. What are your prior experiences
related to the text?
2. What is your impression of the text?
 TEXT’S CONTEXT

This involves about its

publishing history. It is part of
the larger text such as
newspaper, history, events,
translated in it.
 Answer the following questions:
1. Where was the text published?
2. What year was it published?
3. What publishing company printed
the text?
SOCIAL CONTEXT AND SOCIO-
CULTURAL
These feature the society in
which the characters live and in
which the author's text was
produced.
 Answer the following questions:
1. What kind of society emerged during
the time when the literature was
created?
2. What type of government or
significant historical event happened
during its publication?
Writer’s and Social and
Reader’s Text’s Context Socio-Cultural
Context Context

Deeper Understanding
of the Text
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