Textuality » 3A Interacting

RZanutta - Analysing literary texts - ppt
by RZanutta - (2010-09-27)
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The analysis of texts allows a fuller, more careful comprehension going beyond surface meaning. The comprehension of texts goes further than immediate response and it implies discovering and understanding the lay-out, structure, denotation and connotation.

The intertextuality is a silent dialogue between different poems. In fact authors are influenced by what he/she has read in the past.

The language of literature is different to every day - language because there is a net of interrelations that involve the level of sound, word choice and order, figures of speech and many others.

Literature is a network of references and the readers task is to discover, understand and make sense.

An ideal reader, to approach a text, always first have to consider the title, and see if it’s useful to know the possible contents of the text. Then he/she have to read the poem twice or more, and try to discover the possible meanings of the text with a denotative analysis(denotation it’s only the surface of the text). The last step is consider the layout, the way the text appears on the page, because if you know the structure of the text you can discover the various meanings of the words and the lines.