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The 7 Concepts

The document outlines seven concepts for Paper 1 and 2: identity, culture, creativity, communication, perspective, transformation, and representation. For each concept, bullet points provide details on how it relates to characters, authors, readers, contexts, genres, meanings, and the relationships between texts. The concepts examine themes like how identity and culture influence works, the creative process of writing and interpreting texts, how communication occurs between authors and readers, different perspectives that can be taken, how texts transform through intertextuality and influencing readers, and debates around how well language and literature can represent reality.

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The 7 Concepts

The document outlines seven concepts for Paper 1 and 2: identity, culture, creativity, communication, perspective, transformation, and representation. For each concept, bullet points provide details on how it relates to characters, authors, readers, contexts, genres, meanings, and the relationships between texts. The concepts examine themes like how identity and culture influence works, the creative process of writing and interpreting texts, how communication occurs between authors and readers, different perspectives that can be taken, how texts transform through intertextuality and influencing readers, and debates around how well language and literature can represent reality.

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The seven concepts for Paper 1 and 2.

Please read up and link literary theories to understand better.


1. Identity  Characters and voices in the works and texts you study
 Exposure to a variety of perspectives ranged across time
and space
 Consider the role of authorship in writing - how does the
identity of a writer influence their works and texts?
 Consider how your own identity as readers shapes their
understanding of works and texts.
2. Culture  Contexts of production and reception, and to the interplay of
values and beliefs that exist in and may influence how texts
are written and received
 Notions of genre and intertextuality
 Individual texts can be said to exist within traditions
 Explore how one text intertextually relates to (and may
deviate from) texts which predate it.
3. Creativity  Creativity is central to the activities of reading and writing
 Interpret and understand a text, and to explore its range of
potential meanings
 Creativity is also relevant to the notion of originality
4. Communication  Consider how writers manipulate language and style to
communicate with readers, an audience that may or may not
be intended.
 Readers, in turn, may read more or less cooperatively. Even
cooperative readers may arrive at different understandings of
a text, and oppositional readers may challenge the ideas and
meanings intended by a writer.
5. Perspective  The concept of perspective suggests that works and texts
have a range of potential meanings.
 The potential can arise, for example, from authorial intent,
reader bias, and from the time and place in which a work or
text was written.
 Express your perspectives
6. Transformation  The concept of transformation is bound to the idea of
intertextuality
 Texts may be said to exist not as isolated unitary works, but
rather as intertexts in which the meanings of any one text is
always bound to other earlier texts. Such an understanding
highlights the connections that exist between a text, other
texts, and meaning. Texts may be said to appropriate and
borrow from other texts, extending, changing, and
challenging in creative and imaginative ways that which has
gone before.
 Readers too are transformed by texts where reading is
understood as an act of creative construction rather than
linear transmission
 The act of reading may transform readers in more direct
ways. That is, reading can influence how we think and how
we behave
7. Representation  Representation refers to the relationship between texts and
meanings
 In any given text, whether literary or non-literary - however
one makes that distinction - the relationship between form,
structure, and meaning is a central concern.
 Perspectives differ on the extent to which language and
literature does, can, or should represent reality

@RDG@2019
Some research sourced from IB websites

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