AUTHOR-CENTERED
QUESTIONS
How do the author's life
and identity influence the work of writing?
How do the author's skills
influence the making of a text?
How does the author seek to
influence the reader's responses? |
TEXT-CENTERED
QUESTIONS
How does the narrative
create meaning in the text itself?
How does the language itself
influence the meaning of the text?
How does the genre or
performance expectations of a work shape its meaning?
How does the text's argument
establish itself?
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READER-CENTERED
QUESTIONS
How do readers'
experiences shape their responses to a work?
How do readers' worldviews
shape their reading? |
CONTEXT-CENTERED
QUESTIONS
How do various contexts
shape the process of making, interpreting, and experiencing literature?
In what ways ethically
can we evaluate and judge the process of literature?
How is the act of literature
related to the nature of God? |