University of South Florida Scholar Commons Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications Teaching and Learning 2016 Exploring Literary Analysis: Techniques for Understanding Complex Literature Lindsay Persohn University of South Florida,
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[email protected]. CHAPTER 05 appendix Exploring Literary Analysis: Techniques for Understanding Complex Literature by: Lindsay Persohn Understanding how texts fit into the world can help readers make connections with familiar and new ideas. An analysis is a critique, or a response to literature, helping readers position texts in individual, cultural, and sociological spheres. Readers see a text through an overlapping set of lenses, relating the text to their personal experiences, other texts they have read, and sociocultural systems in their worlds. Critical literary analyses can come in many forms. Analysis of a text occurs through iterative processes of identifying a comment on