One must understand that the meaning he or she derives from the text is one of a number of possibilities "even an infinite amount. ... My past experiences with literature classes have been loaded with subjectivity where to deviate from a professor's interpretation would be detrimental to one's grade, and supposedly doing the text a great injustice. ... It was acknowledged that meaning can be derived from the text itself, but people seemed to invest more in a work's significance to them. ... Some of the class may have never thought of meaning as existing outside of the ...

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Formalist critics do not discuss any elements outside of the text itself such as politics or history. The formalist critic analyzes the form of a text rather than its content. ... The tone aids in identifying the meaning of the literature giving the formalist the opportunity to further analyze the text. ... The theme of any written literature should have a centralize idea where the reader is expected to gain meaning from the text. ... Outstanding diction appeals to formalist critics because it promotes a verbally engaging text. ...

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This study centers on readers' responses to literary texts, and how crucial they are the creator of meaning (Tyson 169; Harker 29). ... The main idea behind this theory is that, "the literary work is produced by the reader in response to the text"" (Harker 30). ... The next component of reader-response criticism is the Subjective Reader-Response Theory, guided by David Bleich's view that reader responses are not based on the text, but rather they are the text. In other words, when critics assess the text, they are not actually looking at the literary work. ... Holland terms this, a ...

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It questions the author's role with regard to a text, suggesting the role of an author as a person who loses himself and his identity in the creation of his text. He then defines the author as someone who takes responsibility for this text and helps to shape its meaning. ... The vivid description of the "savages" within the text, are a crucial factor within the novel, and help to shape the thoughts and images as seen by the reader. ... Foucault regards text as being taken on "face value", with the reader looking at what is written, not who is writing. ... The role of the author and that...

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Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. The Literary Canon allows us to dissemble and delve into a multitude of perspectives enabling us to gain an insightful and critical view upon these widely studied texts. ... The English Canon acts as a guide for scholars as it provides a diverse range of sophisticated texts that are guaranteed to satisfy and enhance cultivated thinking. ... Through these perspe...

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Techniques such as text, images, colour, focus and composition in frame convey the general meaning of the novel to the responder. ... These two texts immediately attract the viewer's eye, because they are bold and large. ... The text "Not all journeys have an ending", located at the pinnacle of the pyramid suggests that this is the central focus of the novel. ... The dominant colours in this text are reds, oranges and yellows, suggesting danger and urgency. ... The book cover conveys these ideas through the use of techniques including text, images, colour, focus and composition. ...

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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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In engaging with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, a Preliminary Extension 1 text, I related Clarissa's re-evaluation of her position as "the perfect hostess"" to the atonement of her quiescent past. ... Margaret Atwood's collection of short "fictional essays ", The Tent and Moral Disorder, became essential texts which inspired the narrative voice of my postmodern narrator. Furthermore, my engagement with instructive texts such as Mieke Bal's "Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative" cultured an understanding of the many aspects affecting the quality of storytelli...

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If after reading a random romance novel, you feel you have gained some educational value or you have put another piece of the puzzle into your life, then one can define such text as "literature". ... To a child, a simple piece of text or a short story is defined as "literature" because that child will grow from reading or having read to him or her text. Dah Chen's "Colors of the Mountains" is a valued piece of literature because within this text is his own personal memoir, the history of China, and growth from poverty. ... A text can only be defined by the reader themselves as being a g...

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An example of this would be, 4while Othello may be an African Moor, no amount of scholarship about the history of African Moors will be of much interest to the formalist, since the meaning of Othello's blackness can only be understood by looking at how his race is combined with other elements within the text, such as his actions, his language, his station, his relation to women, his masculinity, etc. ... Formalism generally regards literature as an object, whereas other types of literary criticism see it as "text". ...

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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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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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