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Close Reading Walker Percy
Close Reading:
Close Reading:Using annotation, word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence, and rhetorical analysis to dig deep into a complex text
Close Reading:Using annotation, word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence, and rhetorical analysis to dig deep into a complex textActive, not passive
Close Reading:Using annotation, word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence, and rhetorical analysis to dig deep into a complex textActive, not passiveMore like a conversation
rhetorical analysis:
rhetorical analysis:“Toolkit” (p. 98)
rhetorical analysis:“Toolkit” (p. 98)Author, Audience, Purpose
rhetorical analysis:“Toolkit” (p. 98)Author, Audience, PurposeThree Appeals:
PathosEthosLogos
rhetorical analysis:“Toolkit” (p. 98)Author, Audience, PurposeThree Appeals:
PathosEthosLogos
Not just what the author says, but how the author says it
annotation:
annotation:Marking up a text
annotation:Marking up a text
On paper:HighlightingMargin notes
annotation:Marking up a text
On paper:HighlightingMargin notes
On screen:Techniques vary
annotation:Marking up a text
On paper:HighlightingMargin notes
On screen:Techniques vary
Most important:Mark important passagesWrite notes and comments right on the textMark up as you read
word-by-word:sentence-by-sentnece:
word-by-word:sentence-by-sentnece:
Go slow
word-by-word:sentence-by-sentnece:
Go slowExamine words familiar and unfamiliar both
word-by-word:sentence-by-sentnece:
Go slowExamine words familiar and unfamiliar bothParaphrase and summarize in your head and on paper
word-by-word:sentence-by-sentnece:
Go slowExamine words familiar and unfamiliar bothParaphrase and summarize in your head and on paperThink about connections between ideas
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
•Appropriate:•Symbolic Complex:
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
•Appropriate: Take something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s approval (New Oxford American Dictionary)
•Symbolic Complex:•Symbolic:•Complex:
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
•Appropriate: Take something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s approval (New Oxford American Dictionary)
•Symbolic Complex:•Symbolic: Representing or standing in for something else
•Complex:
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
•Appropriate: Take something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s approval (New Oxford American Dictionary)
•Symbolic Complex:•Symbolic: Representing or standing in for something else
•Complex: (Psychoanalysis) a related group of emotionally significant ideas that are completely or partly repressed and that cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behavior.
what was that?
•Symbolic: Representing or standing in for something else
•Complex: (Psychoanalysis) a related group of emotionally significant ideas that are completely or partly repressed and that cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behavior.
It is almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been formed in the sightseer’s mind.
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
let’s try: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
•Symbolic: Representing or standing in for something else
•Complex: (Psychoanalysis) a related group of emotionally significant ideas that are completely or partly repressed and that cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behavior.
•Symbolic: Representing or standing in for something else
So, the postcard and guidebook and tourist folders are now standing in for the canyon itself?
•Complex: (Psychoanalysis) a related group of emotionally significant ideas that are completely or partly repressed and that cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behavior.
•Symbolic: Representing or standing in for something else
So, the postcard and guidebook and tourist folders are now standing in for the canyon itself?
•Complex: (Psychoanalysis) a related group of emotionally significant ideas that are completely or partly repressed and that cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behavior.
And those “symbols” of the canyon are repressed? No—what’s repressed is the canyon itself!
here it is again: Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon
under these circumstances and see it for what it is—as one picks up
a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes directly at it? It is
almost impossible because the Grand Canyon, the thing as it is, has
been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been
formed in the sightseer’s mind. Seeing the canyon under approved
circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is
no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that
which has already been formulated—by picture postcard, geography
book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon.
(5th paragraph)
note:
note:This can take a while
note:This can take a whileNotice what you don’t know and what you don’t understand
note:This can take a whileNotice what you don’t know and what you don’t understandGo back, connect ideas, and paraphrase in your own words
note:This can take a whileNotice what you don’t know and what you don’t understandGo back, connect ideas, and paraphrase in your own wordsDon’t worry if you don’t understand
note:This can take a whileNotice what you don’t know and what you don’t understandGo back, connect ideas, and paraphrase in your own wordsDon’t worry if you don’t understandKeep going, even if you feel bored, tired, or frustrated