24 Oct How to do Close Reading /Textual Analysis
1. Make connections between the historical contexts and the given passages.
2. Make linkages between the given passages and the rest of the story, without losing your focus on the given passages.
3. Pay attention to details: expressions, phrasings, metaphors, images, etc. In the case of film, music video and other multi-medial cultural productions, pay attention to music, mise-en-scène, visual composition, perspectives, in addition to the verbal and narrative dimensions.
4. Make connections between the passages and the concepts/theories from the secondary sources discussed in class.
* Making associations (linguistic and conceptual), linkages and connections of different kinds among all things produces analysis.
