... and personally meaningful to students. In this regard Showalter (2004), Egan (2005) and Moore (2002) recommend activities such as mental imagery, gossip, play, mystery, maintaining reading journals and writing response essays. Traditional Approaches to Teaching Literature Traditional approaches to the interpretation of literature are called historical, moral and biographical approaches (Guerin et al 2005). ... recorded histories and critically investigate the established discourses of history. These poststructuralist approaches are reader based as they focus on readers' active role in the...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... form of irony, helping the reader draw out the meaning of the text through understated contrasts. Both "A Study of Reading Habits," by Philip Larkin and "Constantly Risking Absurdity," by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, employ allusion, however in "A Study of Reading Habits" Larkin alludes with a sense of irony while in "Constantly Risking Absurdity," the poet does not. In ... fiction as it soon becomes his reality. Immediately into the poem, Larkin writes "[w]hen getting my nose in a book/Cured more things short of school", revealing how through reading he was able to find remedy to his trouble...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... leader, Marvell injects a somewhat subtle use of ambiguity and irony, which deliberately interweave in order to delineate his subjection of Ireland during the 1650's. Upon a preliminary reading of the poem, that is to say, a reading whereby a critical deconstruction is not established, one could perhaps be forgiven for the assumption that the poem has little additional subtexts or meaning other than to literally ... ...

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... twentieth century women did not have much of a tradition in the literary arts so as to form and articulate their ideas in writing. As women grew as literary writers by reading and responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with them. For instance, In North Carolina the number of published women writers in the whole of the 1800's totaled 11 ... ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate