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Praxis !! 0049 IV
Critical Approaches to Interpreting Literature
Question | Answer |
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Reader-Response Critical Approach | focuses on reader and reading process; real meaning is reader's response to reading; 1938 Louise Rosenblatt |
Shared-Inquiry Approach | leader and group; debate; Great Books Program |
Literay Criticism | defines, classifies, analyzes, interprets, & evaluates literary works |
Types of Literary Criticism | Historical, Textual, Femenist,Biographical, Cultural, Formal |
Historical Criticism | uses history as lense |
Texrual Crit. Recension | selection of only the most trustworthy evidence on which to base a text |
Textual crit. Emendation | effort to eliminate all erors in even best text. |
Biographical | use knowledge of author's life to view text |
Cultural | focuse3s on the hist, social, and economic context of work |
Fromal Crit. | attention to formal elements, i.e. language, structure, tone, plot... |
Cueing systems | help increase comprehension; semantics, syntax, access prior knowledge |
Semantics (context) | guess a word by using words around it |
Syntax | using order of words to figure out word |
Activatiing prior knowledge | experiance what one already knows; use before during and after reading |
Four Comprhension Levels | literal, interpretive, critical, creative |
Literal Comprehension | give back facts and details directly |
Interpretive or Inferential Comprehension | must read between the lines; figurative language or literary terms: purpose, main idea, make infer3ence, draw conclusion, genralize, predict, summarize |
Critical Comprhension | think beyond the printed line; true or false, fact/opinion, author qualified... |
Creative Comprehension | respond, ofwn emotionaly to reading; how handle situation differently. |