{"id":93,"date":"2015-05-15T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/masteryamlit1x6xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=93"},"modified":"2017-06-05T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:52:04","slug":"why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-americanlit1\/chapter\/why-it-matters\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts","rendered":"Introduction to Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts"},"content":{"raw":"<blockquote>Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2015 Stephen King, <em>On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft<\/em><\/blockquote>\r\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Learning Outcomes<img class=\"alignright wp-image-274 \" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/774\/2015\/05\/23110000\/fridge-poetry-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a jumble of magnetic words used for fridge poetry sets\" width=\"196\" height=\"146\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\r\n \t<li class=\"li2\"><span data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Identify the key features of prose&quot;]\" data-sheets-userformat=\"[null,null,9153,[null,0],null,null,null,null,null,0,0,1,0,null,null,null,10]\">Identify the key features of prose<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"li2\"><span data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Identify the key features of poetry&quot;]\" data-sheets-userformat=\"[null,null,9153,[null,0],null,null,null,null,null,0,0,1,0,null,null,null,10]\">Identify the key features of poetry<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"li2\"><span data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Identify and describe the major critical approaches to literary interpretation: New Criticism\/Formalism, Reader-Response, Feminism, and Marxism &quot;]\" data-sheets-userformat=\"[null,null,9153,[null,0],null,null,null,null,null,0,0,1,0,null,null,null,10]\">Identify and describe the major critical approaches to literary interpretation: New Criticism\/Formalism, Reader-Response, Feminism, and Marxism<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"p2\"><\/p>","rendered":"<blockquote><p>Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2015 Stephen King, <em>On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Learning Outcomes<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-274\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/774\/2015\/05\/23110000\/fridge-poetry-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a jumble of magnetic words used for fridge poetry sets\" width=\"196\" height=\"146\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li 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