Context and Text’s Meaning and Literary Approaches Flashcards
notion of weaving together the ideas; combination of ideas
Context
It is defined as the circumstances that form the setting of events, statements, or
ideas and in the way of which it can be fully understood and assessed. Reading a literary piece may contribute to the production of the author and the reception
of the reader as they appreciate and explore
Context
TWO TYPES OF CONTEXT:
Writer’s context and Reader’s context
talks about the life of a writer’s life, values, assumptions, gender, race, sexual orientation, and the political and economic issues related to the author
Writer’s context
is about the reader’s previous reading experience, values, assumptions, political
and economic issues.
Reader’s experience
- all about reader’s previous reading experience, values
- your learnings along the way when you read
Reader’s experience
is about its publishing history. It is part of the larger text such as newspaper, history,
events, translated in it
Text’s Context
- focusing on the history
- disregards other perspectives
- closed reading
Text’s Context
- characters live and in which the author’s text was produced
Socio-Cultural
creates the word
Social Context
- creating a picture in the reader’s mind by using words that appeal to the senses
Imagery
- a sense of sight
- sense of organ: eyes
Visual Imagery
appeal to the sense of hearing
Auditory
- appeal to the actions and movement
- eg: Sign Language, Waving
Kinesthetic Imagery
- has a structure, form, and syntax
- judged purely what is apparent in the text
Formalism
- It is a reaction to tradition, works that may be interpreted or judged purely from what is apparent in the texts. Involves a close reading of the text all information are
essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself
Formalism
- Literature may be interpreted as a battle of the sexes or a reaction or result of oppressive patriarchy.
- Concerned with the roles of female characters within works.
Feminism
has something to do with a social status
- upper class (bourgeoisie), middle class, lower class (proletariat)
Marxism
- involves how elements of the class struggle — primarily the difference between the bourgeois and the proletariat — are
reflected in the text.
Marxism
- It “examines literature in the cultural, economic and political context in which it is written or received,” exploring the
relationships between the artist and society.
Sociological Approach
