ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simile, Literary Language
22 Aug 2018
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Narrative strategies and unit modules: form + content: focus on the text, ways of telling: focus on narration, codes and contexts: focus on contexts of writing and reading (extra-textual info, reading and interpretation: focus on the reader. How the reader synthesises that information into an interpretative response. What is interpretation: a transaction, there is no such thing as neutral or objective interpretation, our reading determined by our. Preferences: interpretation is shaped by the context of reading. There are gaps and spaces in texts that cue certain assumptions. Our role is to contribute information and emotion to plug the gap. We are invested conceptually and emotionally in the text. Our objectives: discover different ways of looking at texts, ask new and probing questions about how as well as what they mean, express our ideas about textual meaning in a scholarly way.
