Q21: What does it mean to say that the text has critical potential? Discuss based on selected works of literature studied in your literature classes/seminars.

Question 1

What is critical reading?

Answer 1

• critical reading means questioning a text, it’s a process of reading that goes beyond just understanding the text; - the reader needs to objectively examine and analyze the content and the context of a particular text

Question 2

What does it mean that a text has critical potential?

Answer 2

That it can be analyzed through different aspects and perspectives, and that its potential is inexhaustible.

Question 3

What does critical reading involve?

Answer 3

• careful evaluation of the text
• identifying the text’s strengths and implications
• identifying the text’s weaknesses and flaws
• deciding how the reading fits into the greater academic context (on the basis of critical texts)