Critical Theories Deal with knowledge through interpretation to understand the meaning of human text and symbolic expressions including interpretation of texts themselves interpret other texts. ... Text is unified whole. There is nothing outside the text, everything is within the text. ... According to new criticism, in order to understand text we have to detach the text from context. ... He focused on the unity of text. ...

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Genesis is an important text because it holds such value throughout the ages. ... You need to look at the message in the text and be able to relate that to yourself and your experiences. ... The text forces you to question and "requires constant reinterpretation and struggle." ... It leaves readers to think for themselves, even disagree with the text. ... Readers need to look at sacred texts such as Genesis in a different way. ...

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Reader Response is a literary criticism technique that helps the reader better understand the text and the world around them. ... It is not specifically clear what is going on, therefore can be considered a gap in the text. The theory of an unwanted pregnancy stands, yet does not necessarily relate to the rest of the text. ... The reader gets the chance to articulate their identity theme through the reading of this text. ... A text's meaning and interpretation must then be agreed upon by more than one reader. ...

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I can't really remember when I wrote my first sentence or a small text in school, but some years ago I discovered my old "Fibel", and between the pages I found a small sheet of paper. ... This small text had a lot of grammatical mistakes and the hand writing was rather shaky. ... But I started to structure the main part in paragraphs with paying attention that the text is coherent. It is remarkable that these interpretations were only my own thoughts, we never made use of secondary literature on a text, even in the A-level exam I had to write my own interpretation, and nothing more. ...

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Often times, when a person reads a work of literature, there are many details of the text that are difficult to understand. ... In any work of literature, a reader may be unsure of how to perceive the characters and certain events of the text. ...

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In contrast to Orwell, who his more of an impulse writer, Anne Lamott is like a text book writer. Not in the sense that she writes text book, but in the sense that her writing style and strategy is taken from one. ...

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Think about your family and dear friends. Think of all the memories you have had with those loved ones. What would you do if everything familiar, people included, were gone? That is what Robert Neville goes through everyday ever since a drastic plague wiped out all of humanity - except for him. Robe...

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"Monument 14," by Emmy Laybourne, bears several characteristics, including fear, that defines the novel as a thriller. One characteristic of a thriller novel that is exemplified in Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14, is the ominous atmosphere that gives the novel a foreboding undertone. In Th...

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A metaphor may not always assist the reader in understanding the literal translation of the text; although it may assist the reader in better understanding the overall message through more expansion of the given character's emotions. ...

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In the fantasy genre, the reader gets the chance to enter an ancient and forgotten world that no longer exists. In this genre you will automatically go back to a time where everything was made of wood and steel. All this puts the reader in a comfort zone where you don't have to be afraid of possi...

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However, from our reading of the text we are able to guess who these people are and it shows to viewers how both the Lambs and the Pickleses have reunited with each other and how the house itself has settled down since the division in the corridor has been removed. ...

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The Red Pony The Red Pony is a short novel that consists of four chapters. It is episodic, meaning that each chapter could stand alone. They are intertwined, and each chapter plays its part in the overall message and themes of the novel. The setting is on a ranch in California in the closing d...

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However, from our reading of the text we are able to guess who these people are and it shows to viewers how both the Lambs and the Pickleses have reunited with each other and how the house itself has settled down since the division in the corridor has been removed. ...

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However, from our reading of the text we are able to guess who these people are and it shows to viewers how both the Lambs and the Pickleses have reunited with each other and how the house itself has settled down since the division in the corridor has been removed. ...

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Can a literary work be without twists and turns within the plot? Can a literary work be excellent without leaving the readers with a little bit of healthy confusion? Throughout novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, Austen creates a sense of pleasure and disquietude for the readers. This health...

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We can learn much about our own values and attitudes by examining our response to particular texts. Explain, in detail, what you have learned about you own values and attitudes towards life and literature from you response to reading Breaktime. The meaning of literature is different with each pe...

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Ernest Hemingway In the sixty two years of Ernest Hemingway's life he produced a literary reputation that went unmatched in the twentieth century. He was looked at from many different respects from writers and critics alike: "an old wise man, a brilliant stylist, a "culture hero," a fraud and a phony, an anti-intellectual, a courageous man who took chances with the violent world around him, a drinker with a metal stomach, a fun loving sportsman, and a strange primitive man." Not only his writing but his life were continuously being watched and described. This resulted in Hemingway bein...

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