Cultural context: values, assumptions and reader positioning

What this note covers

1. What cultural context means in literary analysis
2. Ideology and how texts position readers
3. How textual features construct cultural values
4. The relationship between dominant, negotiated and oppositional readings
5. Specific cultural contexts in Australian literary texts
6. Writing a critical response: structure, evidence and metalanguage
7. Practising resistant and negotiated readings: a step-by-step method

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