Interpretive complexity: The quality of an analysis that accounts for contradictions, tensions, and ambiguities within a text.
How to apply it: Resist the urge to simplify—the strongest analyses explain what is complicated about a work, not just what is clear.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Longer Fiction or Drama III
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