Q1. LISTS AND NARRATIVE
In order for a list to become a coherent narrative, each item, person, time or place on the list must connect to the item before and after in some way. The interactions can be in many different ways, such as a phone book is in alphabetical order, however without a meaning behind the list, there is no text or context to the narrative. Without a context a text will always be just a list and not a narrative. However by giving more details about the list and giving the readers cues to connect the items or events can change a text list into a narrative.
Poststructuralism stresses that the meaning found in text is different for everybody as everyone brings their previous readings and understandings to the text. Under this
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Literary meaning in narrative, to me, can be anything in a text that moves the reader. Similar to Barthes punctum idea, that a small detail, can elicit an intense, sudden emotional response; a small change in the narrative could alter when a response is triggered, causing the reader to leave the text with a different understanding of the text and its meaning than previously read.
The meaning can be different depending on the time it’s read, who reads it, or even the place it’s read. Whether it’s the readers first time reading the narrative, their twentieth time, or they are the author coming back to revisit and edit before finishing the work; each reader when reading a narrative brings his or her own views and understandings to the text. Therefore texts develop intertextuality and can have a new and different meaning for each reader. Intertextuality also causes the meaning taken from a text to change when it is put into contact with other texts the reader has previously read and will eventually encounter. This also causes the texts meaning to constantly change as new texts are encountered. Along with intertextuality, hypertextuality can effect how meaning is found in a text. Hypertextuality refers to any relationship uniting a text to an earlier edition of that text. Because of this intertextuality and hypertextuality, even when an author or creator has finished the work to the best of their abilities, the work will never be “complete” as every new reader will bring a new point of view and ideas of what the meaning of the text truly
According to Laurence Perrine in his seventh edition of Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense he states the definition of interpretive literature is 'Literature written to deepen and broaden and sharpen our awareness of life.'; Interpretive literature is not candy coated. It allows its readers to experience the trials and tribulations of life. By using graphically realistic plots and endings, which are consistent to those in real life, interpretive literature achieves a higher literary value than escape literature. Interpretive literature allows its reader too step out of the fantasy world they might be living in and focus on what the world is really about. One might say an interpretive story provides insight to understanding. Not only understanding of ourselves, but our neighbors, friends, family or anyone else we might encounter.
The literary device, author’s voice, affects the meaning of a text in almost everything you read. This is especially true for the classic book Night as well as the short story “ A Spring Morning”. Some of the examples of when text is affected by the author’s voice include: when the author is foreshadowing, when the author is writing about someone is being told to obey what another person is saying, and when the author is writing about a loved one dying.
“There isn’t any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that,when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and suprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
There is a possibility to understand certain pieces of literature outside its historical context; however, it is more beneficial to the reader if they have background knowledge. Taha Muhammad Ali was a Palestinian poet that was born in 1931. He grew up in Saffuriya, Galilee that is located in the Middle East. Ali was self-taught through his readings of classical Arabic literature, American fiction, and English poetry. Ali then proceeded to begin writing poems in the 1970s. He wrote a poem entitled “Meeting at an Airport” that was based of his personal experiences and without knowing his background information and history the reader was unclear of what exactly was meant by this poem. In the poem, “Meeting at an Airport” written by Taha Muhammad Ali, historical context is needed to understand this piece because it emphasizes the theme, the purpose of the poem, and establishes credibility (“Poetry Foundation”).
1. Growing up we all heard stories. Different types of stories, some so realistic, we cling onto them farther into our lives. Stories let us see and even feel the world in different prespectives, and this is becuase of the writter or story teller. We learn, survive and entertain our selves using past experiences, which are in present shared as stories. This is why Roger Rosenblatt said, "We are a narrative species."
...s sometimes they have a very set meaning to what that story is supposed to be about and sometimes they don’t but in almost every case you can read further into what they are saying by just paying attention to how it makes you feel as you read it.
In conclusion, it is hard to grasp the true meaning of the story unless the story is read a second time because of the author's style of writing.
Classically, the literary canon has been exclusive to certain types of authors, while excluding female, South American, African, Asian, gay, Native American, and other non-white male groups. Also, due to cultural and moral values of certain time periods, some works weren't considered that possibly would today. Basically the literary canon is at best an incomplete list of remarkable literature, making it somewhat less valuable than it could be. The element that makes the literary canon useful is the same element that makes every other example of good writing useful: it exposes the reader to different styles, themes, techniques, and verbiage, thus enlarging the reader's literary
An authors’ reasoning behind providing information help to clearly convey their purpose through the ultimate theme of the story. Two reasons behind providing information are to inform and to reflect. Backing these reasons, authors also use main themes with supporting details (“Elements of Non-Fiction”). Informing or teaching with themes supported by details effectively portrays elements of nonfiction to supply the reader with a clear understanding of the story being told. In addition, the implementation of text structure and features present in nonfiction books organizes the main ideas. According to “Elements of Non-Fiction,” “A text structure is the manner in which major ideas and supporting details are organized in a nonfiction text. The information being presented and the author’s purpose determine how the writer organizes the concepts and ideas.” Text structure such as enumeration and time order, and text features of titles and headings are a few of the components of nonfiction that aid in making a story effective. By applying elements from the themes and organization of the main ideas, authors are capable of effectively delivering their information within their
Since the beginning of time, stories have been told. Stories have been passed down from the beginning of time, told to younger generations by the old. Every story is based on one original story, however, the author has to create a new storyline with new character, sometimes adding a new, exciting aspect to the plot. There are only a limited number of stories that can be told, as there are only a limited number of messages, or key elements that a reader can take away from each story. After a while, a reader will begin to relate a book, movie, song, or some other kind of story, to a work that they have previously read.
Through vivid yet subtle symbols, the author weaves a complex web with which to showcase the narrator's oppressive upbringing. Two literary critics whose methods/theories allow us to better comprehend Viramontes. message are Jonathan Culler and Stephen Greenblatt. Culler points out that we read literature differently than we read anything else. According to the intertextual theory of how people read literature, readers make assumptions (based on details) that they would not make in real life.
Songs, texts and games have obvious differences, all resulting from the distinctive nature of these mediums. The first is heard, the second read and the third is played. Different senses are used in absorbing these mediums which results in differing interpretations. A text only has the ability of describing a scenario or a view. There are immediate problems with this though as not all words and sentences are discerned similarly by everyone. This together with each readers own imagination results in a wide array of different constructions and interpretations of texts. A book forces the use of imagination in the construction of a scene no matter how descriptive it is, even a book like Brothers Karamazov where Dostoyevsky goes to great lengths in building up the scenes with detailed descriptions.
One area in which the possibility of the existence of more than one meaning or interpretation creates tension is literature. "Intention, text, context, reader – what determines meaning? Now the very fact that arguments are made for all four factors shows that meaning is complex and elusive, not something once and f...
For example, in “Hill like White Elephants” not many people understand the title. But, a white elephant is known to be something that is not wanted. In this story, the baby is compared to a white elephant, because the American does not want to have this child in his life. Furthermore, Banks uses more description in his writing of the story. By stating the races of each party, he could be implying that there might be a problem when it comes to race and how others will perceive the news. But, also he also uses the symbol of a dark green rowboat. By stating the boat is green, it is related to nature and growth, but by adding dark before it, it becomes a paradox. By having symbols in each story, it is recognizable there are deeper meanings in each story the author is trying to show the
to the story as a whole. It has a lot of metaphors and similes that