Contextual reading: Interpreting a work in light of its historical, cultural, or biographical context without reducing it to that context.
How to apply it: Use contextual information to illuminate—not replace—close reading of the text itself.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Longer Fiction or Drama II
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