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21ST CENTURY LIT Flashcards

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How does looking through the eyes of the author help us better understand the text?

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LITERARY READING THROUGH A BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT

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Understanding the authors life can help you understand his work thoroughly

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GIOIA AND KENNEDY 2007

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give the three biography strategies

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DO A RESEARCH ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ANALAYZE THE AUTHOR’S BELIEFS

LOOK AT OTHER AUTHOR’S WORKS

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what is the importance of understanding the way language is used in literary text?

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LINGUISTIC CONTEXT

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practically everything we do that is specifically human is expressed in language

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DAVID RICHTER

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reading the text on its own regardless of the author’s biography and sociocultural context.

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REASONS TO READ LITERATURE THROUGH THE LINGUISTICS CONTEXT

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Analyzing the literary text syntax or phonemic pattern

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REASONS TO READ LITERATURE THROUGH THE LINGUISTICS CONTEXT

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give linguistic strategies

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ANALYZE THE DICTION
EXAMINE THE TEXT SYNTAX
OBSERVE THE USE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
ANALYZE THE MOOD AND TONE OF THE TEXT
OBSERVE THE TEXT’S OVERALL STRUCTURE
ANALYZE THE CONTENT OF THE TEXT

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the text being examined to a larger structure

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STRUCTURALISM

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school of literary criticism and literary theory that focuses as the structure of a particular text

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FORMALISM / NEW CRITICISM

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reaction to structuralism. there may be underlying structure that may have different interpretations based on how the words or phrases were used in the text

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POST STRUCTURALISM

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why would a particular event or an outside situation affect a literary piece?

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LITERARY READING THROUGH SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT

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ART IS NOT CREATED IN VACUUM , IT IS THE WORK NOT SIMPLY OF A PERSON , BUT OF AN AUTHOR FIXED IN TIME AND SPACE , ANSWERING A COMMUNITY OF WHICH HE IS AN IMPORTANT , ARTICUATE PART

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WILBURT SCOTT

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detailed narrative of a person written by someone elsd

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BIOGRAPHY

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detailed narrative of a person by himself / herself

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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refers to the context within the discourse

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LINGUISTIC CONTEXT

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study of language

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LINGUISTICS

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emotional responswe that the writer want to give to the reader

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MOOD

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authors attitude in the text

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TONE

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informartion or message that is being conveyed in a piece of writing

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CONTENT

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words that has emotional impact

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STRIKING WORDS

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nouns that are important

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PROMINENT NOUNS

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techniques used by authors

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LITERARY DEVICES

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refers tot he social and cultural factor that shape and influence human behavior , human beliefs , values , practices , within a specific commumity , society, or cultural setting

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SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT

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reading using the sociocultural context helps you understand the social , economic , economic political and cultural forces affecting the work that you are reading

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REASOSN TO READ LITERATURE THROUGH THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT

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bodies or ideas that can be used as a tool in understanding literary conetxt

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LITERARY THEORIES

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literature shows class struggle and materialism looks into how the text serves as a propaganda material

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MARXISM

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feminist perspective examines the role of the women in literature

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FEMINISM

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the third gender menaing the gay lesbians and other characters or persona in literarture that may fall under a queer are being examined

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QUEER THEORY

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traditional historical criticism is a perspective dealing with the history that influenced the writing of literature

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HISTORICISM

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literary perspective that looks into the changes in the attitude of the post colonies after the colonial period

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POST COLONIALISM

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another perspective in the sociocultural context. it focuses not only in the history when the literary text was written but also how the history happened

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NEW HISTORISICM

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