Module b : Critical Study of Literature

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  Drawing on research and wider reader to help create informed personal response  breaking down interpretation, understanding, effects and impact on their contemporary audience and us as modern audiences.
  
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  Appreciation of aesthetic and imaginative qualities  Evaluate and Unique  Distinctive qualities  style of the author
  
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  What is the purpose of the author?
  
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  Context  author’s (composition) and audience’s (reception) context
  
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  Textual integrity  Universal Appeal (needs to go past time and culture) and organic unity (what is the holistic meaning)
  

Poems are easier to read over again presenting complicate ideas in a more digestible way.

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  Form and Style (construction, language, and form)  Macro techniques
  
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  Why was the form chosen?
  
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  What was the effect of style?
  
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  Micro techniques are needed to support the macro
  
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  Drawing from evidence throughout the text (textual integrity)
  

Use words in thesis to describe beauty to show appreciation.

T.S Eliot expressed values regarding the fragility and equality of life through the confronting manner in….

GENERAL ESSAY TIP: Structure for body paragraphs

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  Deconstruct the distinctive qualities of your text
  
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  Link it to contextual influences
  
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  Towards the end, link to how and why your text resonates with modern audiences and link to significance
  
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  Link to a modern example from current society
  
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  The significance of your text should be mentioned in your thesis, and your topic sentences, and linking/relating statements at the end of your body paragraphs 
  

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  Literature through the storytelling of morality and tragedy enables a medium for the creation of shared morality through personal despair and failures.
  
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  The power of storytelling to reveal(or unveil) tragedy and lack of morality in literature enables a medium to accentuate the personal and shared nature of despair (and sorrow).
  

Key words:

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  Critical study
  
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  Textual integrity
  
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  Distinctive qualities (uniqueness of a text)
  
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  Context
  
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  Aesthetic, imaginative
  
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  Informed, personal (critics, research)
  
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  Analytical and critical
  

(Personal VOICE) Evaluative language, adjectives, adverbs  be purposeful

STAR BODY paragraph

Always do macro – to micro

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  Small intro line
  
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  Two small bodies
  
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  Synthesis paragraphs for both bodies
  
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  One example per para from each text