English Literature A-Level
Critical evaluation and argument
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Competing readings are argued over, with reasoned evaluation of which reading is more persuasive and why, distinguishing plural interpretation from relativism.
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Related terms
- Authorial choice and textual effects
- Authorial shaping of meaning
- Comparative connections
- Context of production
- Convention, adaptation and subversion
- Form, structure and language
- Genre as a dynamic system of conventions
- Genre as an interpretive framework rather than a label
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