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10. How do various contexts shape the process of making, interpreting, and
experiencing literature?
In what way is the process a religious one?
Is this act of reading one of worship?
Is it intended for meditation? Ethical training? Catechism? Apologetics?
Does it challenge or question accepted beliefs in any way?
Is it intended for self-examination? Discernment?
How do politics shape the creation, distribution, or reading of literature?
Are certain works censored?
Are some state-sponsored?
Are certain interpretations more acceptable to those in power?
How do economic forces shape the process?
How much does it cost to produce the work? To distribute and market it? Who can afford
it? Who can't? Why?
Do differing ethnic or national experiences shape the way it is read?
What institutions control the publication of literary works?
Which ones control the interpretation/ criticism of such works?
Which ones also control the teaching of them?
What traditions lay behind the process of literature?
What interpretive communities influence the way we read?
Are authors, publishers, or readers trying to solve certain issues or generating
problems?
Do certain cultural practices influence any of the above?
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