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Practising Literary Analysis »

Beth Kemp | Saturday July 16, 2011

Categories: Hot Entries, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Writing, Literary Analysis

Close analysis of extracts – whether of known or previously unseen texts – is a key part of the assessment of English Literature (and the combined Language and Literature courses).  It is also a difficult skill to master and therefore needs considerable classroom practice.  Sometimes the task is to engage in ‘practical criticism’, selecting a range of interesting features of the text to arrive at an interpretation, while at other times, textual analysis needs to be focused more specifically: on the text’s relation to context; or on...

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