Tag: Ambivalence & Tension
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Develop one or more hypotheses for choosing a direction of interpretation, some ideas for clarifying the ambiguity, resolving the ambivalence, or making sense of the tension.
Identifying Critical Cruxes: Engaging Ambiguity, Ambivalence, & Tension Much if not most academic writing involves the reasoned interpretation of texts, and such interpretation requires skill in distinguishing between dimensions of meaning that are clear, obvious, and straightforward and those that are more difficult, perplexing, or obscure. The interpretation of literary texts, in particular, often demands…