English Literature A-Level
Authorial choice and textual effects
What Authorial choice and textual effects means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The principle that partial generic fit can be a deliberate authorial choice, and that selective use of conventions shapes meaning and reader response.
Topics that use Authorial choice and textual effects
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Related terms
- Authorial shaping of meaning
- Comparative connections
- Context of production
- Convention, adaptation and subversion
- Critical evaluation and argument
- Form, structure and language
- Genre as a dynamic system of conventions
- Genre as an interpretive framework rather than a label
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