Answer:This section is a "qualifier" for the discussion of textual elements that
follows. Students need to be made aware that there are many different and
valid approaches to looking at a work of literature, and that a textual analysis
is only one of these, albeit the one we tend to emphasize most in our classes.
The section on Your Critical Approachtries to make it clear to students that
an interpretation of literature is influenced by many complex factors, and that
critics make choices about what to emphasize. These choices are not a matter
of right or wrong but an indication of the cultural and aesthetic values of the
critic. And they too, like the critics, are influenced by their own values and
the influence of their own interpretive communities when they read and write
about literature
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