Literary Interpretation презентация

Finding meaning . . .
From Reading to Writing After reading a powerful work of literature like Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” or Stephen Crane’s “A Mystery of Heroism,” you may be filled with questions about its meaning.

Finding meaning . . .
Writing a literary interpretation is a good way to explore your own ideas about the meaning of a literary work and to analyze the elements in the work that communicate the meaning.

B a s i c s i n a B o x
Literary Interpretation at a Glance
RUBRIC
Standards for Writing
A successful literary interpretation should
clearly identify the title and author of the literary work
give a clearly stated interpretation at or near the beginning of the essay
present evidence and quotations from the text to support the interpretation
take into account other interpretations and contradictory evidence
Introduces the literary work and includes a clear thesis statement that summarizes the interpretation
Introduction
Summarizes the interpretation
Conclusion

Begin by choosing a work of literature to write about. You might select a work that you especially liked or one that you had problems with in some way.
Writing Your Literary Interpretation

Planning Your Literary Interpretation
1. Develop an interpretation. Read the story more than once, taking notes. Freewrite about the literary elements in the work. What are the main character’s most significant thoughts or actions? What is the central conflict? What is the theme? Write your interpretation of the story as a tentative thesis statement.

Planning Your Literary Interpretation
2. Gather evidence to support your interpretation. Use a chart to list significant passages from the text and how they support your interpretation.
3. Test your interpretation. Does the evidence support your interpretation? What contradictory evidence did you find? How can you revise your interpretation to account for more of the evidence?

If everybody is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.
General George S. Patton, U.S. Army
Writing Your Literary Interpretation

Writing Your Literary Interpretation
Try out your interpretation by writing down your ideas. A good way to start is to try to get through an entire first draft without stopping. You can revise form and style later. Eventually, you should organize your writing into the following parts:

Writing Your Literary Interpretation
Introduction—identifies the author and title of the work and briefly states the main point of the interpretation
Body—presents evidence from the text to support the interpretation
Conclusion—restates the interpretation and summarizes the evidence

Writing Your Literary Interpretation
Revising
TARGET SKILL
CONCLUSIONS
A good conclusion in literary interpretations summarizes what was presented in the body of the paper, does not introduce anything new, and leaves the reader with a sense of closure and something to think about.