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    This document discusses contextual reading approaches for analyzing literary texts. It explains that literary works are influenced by an author's background, culture, and experiences. Readers should research an author's biography and life experiences to better understand how they shaped the work. Specifically, analyzing an author's beliefs, other works, and themes can provide insight into how their life is reflected in their writing. The document recommends strategies for reading texts through a biographical context, but cautions against assuming a work is entirely autobiographical. The overall goal is to evaluate literature using the biographical, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts of its creation.

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    This document discusses contextual reading approaches for analyzing literary texts. It explains that literary works are influenced by an author's background, culture, and experiences. Readers should research an author's biography and life experiences to better understand how they shaped the work. Specifically, analyzing an author's beliefs, other works, and themes can provide insight into how their life is reflected in their writing. The document recommends strategies for reading texts through a biographical context, but cautions against assuming a work is entirely autobiographical. The overall goal is to evaluate literature using the biographical, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts of its creation.

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    This document discusses contextual reading approaches for analyzing literary texts. It explains that literary works are influenced by an author's background, culture, and experiences. Readers should research an author's biography and life experiences to better understand how they shaped the work. Specifically, analyzing an author's beliefs, other works, and themes can provide insight into how their life is reflected in their writing. The document recommends strategies for reading texts through a biographical context, but cautions against assuming a work is entirely autobiographical. The overall goal is to evaluate literature using the biographical, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts of its creation.

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    CONTEXTUAL

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    This document discusses contextual reading approaches for analyzing literary texts. It explains that literary works are influenced by an author's background, culture, and experiences. Readers should research an author's biography and life experiences to better understand how they shaped the work. Specifically, analyzing an author's beliefs, other works, and themes can provide insight into how their life is reflected in their writing. The document recommends strategies for reading texts through a biographical context, but cautions against assuming a work is entirely autobiographical. The overall goal is to evaluate literature using the biographical, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts of its creation.

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    CONTEXTUAL

    READING
    APPROACHES
    What is Contextual Reading Approaches?
    -All literary texts were written by different authors with different
    background, culture, society, language, etc. On the other hand, you, as a
    reader, also differ from the writer and other readers of the literary text.
    This lesson will help you understand the different literary texts that you will
    encounter not only in this course but also during your leisure reading. This
    will help you understand texts based on their authors’ biography, society,
    and language and how these factors connect to your own experience
    and reading.
    There are reasons to read literature through the graphical
    context (Gioia and Kennedy 2007):

    • Understanding the author’s life can help you understand his or her work
    thoroughly.
    • Reading the author’s biography or autobiography helps you see how
    much his experiences shape his or her work directly and indirectly.
    VOCABULARY:
    • Biography – comes from the Greek word “bios”, which means life, and
    “graphia”, which means writing; a detailed account or narrative of a
    person written by someone else.
    • Autobiography – also a narrative of a person himself or herself.
    UNIT OBJECTIVES:
    In this unit, you should be able to:
    • identify the different ways one may evaluate a literary text, specifically
    by examining its biographical context, sociocultural context, and
    linguistic context;
    • distinguish various critical reading strategies; and
    • analyze different literary texts through different contexts using different
    critical reading strategies
    Here are biographical strategies that you may
    use:
    • Research on what the author believes in and also what he or she does
    not.
    • Analyze how the author’s belief system is reflected in his or her work.
    • Look at the author’s other works and analyze if there is a pattern with
    regard to the theme that is indicative of his or her life and beliefs.
    Take note of the following before reading a text
    through a biographical context:
    • You should not assume that all works are confessional,
    biographical, or even “true to life.”
    • A literary text is according to the author’s perspective
    and will be heavily influenced by him or her, but it is
    not the only way of studying literature

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