- •Lecture № 1. Lingustic aspect of text interpretation
- •Approaches to text interpretation (based on the preference of one of the textual senses)
- •The main components of a literary text
- •Incidents:
- •The main distinguishing features of event
- •Plot is a series of events
- •Lecture 3. The system of images: types of characterization
- •A hierarchy of images
- •Classifications of characters
- •Flat characters vs round
- •Lcture 4. Point of view. Narrative methods and types of narration
- •Implication techniques:
Implication techniques:
SUSPENSE: the quality of a story, that makes the reader uncertain or tense about the outcome of events.
Suspense is the growing interest and excitement readers experience while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature. It is a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events. Writers create suspense by raising questions in the minds of their readers.
Symbol is a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well.
Repetition is when a word, phrase of line is repeated within the text in close proximity.
Repetition is used to emphasize or add special meaning to what is being said.
Repetition makes the reader consciously aware of a point being made by the author or the character.
IMAGERY: consists of the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses.
Descriptive words or phrases appeal to the 5 senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell- creating a picture in the reader’s mind.
Title is the first element to catch the reader’s eye, but its meaning and function may be determined only retrospectively because it acquires its precise meaning when related to the whole story. Then it may acquire a totally different meaning, or the story itself may clarify the meaning of the title. Title may perform different functions in a literary text such as:
as a means of conveying the author's message;
as a means of cohesion, i.e. it unites the components of a story to form an artistic whole;
as a means of focussing the reader's attention on the most relevant characters or details;
it may characterize the protagonist;
it orients or disorients the reader towards the message of the story.
The aim of the analysis is at breaking a literary text down into its varied components to see how each piece works and contributes to the text’s message.
The world is full of texts to interpret, and there are myriad ways to interpret each of them. Being critically text interpretation means engaging with that world and those texts in a thoughtful way to understand how many possible ways of being and thinking there are.