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Activity Types of Criticim
Naureen Yaqub)
Read, identify and match the characteristics with relevant critical approaches to literature:
5 The texts do not have meanings but it is the readers e. Biographical Criticism
who give meaning to it and interpret it. It talks about
how readers interpret the same text with different
assumptions. Same reader may have different
interpretations in different time of reading the same
piece of work.
Source: X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia’s “Literature: An introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama”, Six Edition
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), pages 1790-1818