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explication de texte

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ex·pli·ca·tion de texte  (k-spl-kä-syô d tkst)
n. pl. ex·pli·ca·tions de texte (k-spl-kä-syô d tkst)
A method of literary criticism in which the interrelated details of a written work are examined and analyzed in an effort to understand its structure and discover meanings.
[French : explication, explanation + de, of + texte, text.]
explication de texte French [ɛksplikɑsjɔ̃ də tɛkst]
n pl explications de texte [ɛksplikɑsjɔ̃ də tɛkst]
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a close textual analysis of a literary work
[literally: explanation of (the) text]
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Noun1.explication de texteexplication de texte - a method of literary criticism that analyzes details of a text in order to reveal its structure and meaning
literary criticism, criticism - a written evaluation of a work of literature


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She eschews anything that resembles explication de texte and instead relies upon the prosecutorial-conspiratorial musings of Semyon Reznik.
Traditional prejudices by Mahoney, Daniel J. / Reason
Achsah Guibbory's important essay on Hesperides stands out here, because, while it certainly employs close formal analysis, its critical methodology is not explication de texte but historicism: she changes our view of Herrick by expertly locating the politics of his use of the Hebrew Bible within the religious controversies of the 1640s.
"A Certain Text": Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare ... by Lesser, Zachary / Renaissance Quarterly
Chapter 5, Hunt's explication de texte of Sade's La philosophie dans le boudoir argues that the author has taken the new republican family romance to its logical erotic conclusions in his creation of an imaginative world with no fathers, homosexual brothers, public women, and children with no parents but the state.
The Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynch, Katherine A. / Journal of Social History
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