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4 why not B?
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In practice this meant a new emphasis in the reading of fiction on scrupulous textual analysis as a prerequisite for biographical and ideological comment.

No connection as mentioned in B, but a prerequisite, which is different.

B is wrong
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4 why not D?

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The word Biographical appears only in the third sentence, and this reads, “In practice, this meant a new emphasis in the reading of a fiction on scrupulous textual analysis as a prerequisite for biographical and ideological commend".

Among the choices, it is (C) which paraphrases this neatly, and is the answer.


(D) Information about a novelist’s life can provide important critical insight into his or her novels, but such information should be subordinated to ideological investigation

We do need to discover new patterns across different novels. Not ideological investigation
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Thanks.... in the passage, it says
'In practice this meant a new emphasis in the reading of fiction on scrupulous textual analysis as a prerequisite for biographical and ideological comment. '
I dont get it. Who is going to comment? The novelist or the critic?

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It is a hypothetical scenario the comment

If you want to do comment you must take into account both prerequisites: biographical and ideological

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It is a hypothetical scenario the comment

If you want to do comment you must take into account both prerequisites: biographical and ideological

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So, you considered me as a critic? The author of the passage is pointing to the critics by saying so?

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It is a hypothetical scenario the comment

If you want to do comment you must take into account both prerequisites: biographical and ideological

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So, you considered me as a critic? The author of the passage is pointing to the critics by saying so?

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The new Critics said that to do Z you must have X and Y

Z = comment
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It is a hypothetical scenario the comment

If you want to do comment you must take into account both prerequisites: biographical and ideological

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So, you considered me as a critic? The author of the passage is pointing to the critics by saying so?

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The new Critics said that to do Z you must have X and Y

Z = comment

Yes I know. But who is going to comnent? My question is the critics or the novelist?
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Nobody :(

It is a rhetoric construction.

The theory says IF you want to make a comment you need those two elements, otherwise, according to the New Critics theory if you aim to make a serious analysis , and indeed certain novel's comment, you have to use both.

Nodody is making a comment

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Thanks and sorry for the infinite questions. Sometimes, its not easy to convey the main point efficiently merely through text.

So you mean IF a CRITIC- and this is the main part of the ambiguity I have( a critic not the novelist)- wants to comment, he/she should do biographical and ideological comment.

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An important development in twentieth-century literary criticism was the growth of the New Criticism. The New Critics assumed that the methods devised for reading long poems could be applied to novels. In practice this meant a new emphasis in the reading of fiction on scrupulous textual analysis as a prerequisite for biographical and ideological comment.


We do have the literary criticism, i.e the analysis of a book, what is in there, what the book says, what the author want to convey with that book

A new theory is developed

This new theory is able to apply the analysis applied from a poem to novels (fiction) as well

However, in this new theory (new critics) before making a comment on the novel (good written, bad, it is crap, it is awesome....) you MUST analyze the book or novel itself, reading the text very super careful.

At that point, you (the critic or who is analyzing the text of the book) are able to make a comment both in terms of biography and ideological standing point

Now

biographical means that our comment about the author is in the fashion: why the author this time wrote a book very good. At the beginning, him/her was not so good now yes (just an example)
ideological means : oh I do not like the author he/she is a fascist, too extreme ideas in the novel. No he/she is a Communist (just an example) and blah blah blah

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Thank you! I appreciate it.

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Why the answer of 3rd question is not B?
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i was wondering from which portion of the text you inferred B.

I do not see any.

Could you provide the sentence or portion ? sir
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