I-Learning Methods

The term "close" has more positive and productive sense, however which is no prescriptive, restrictive, or normative. (Lehman, 1999:3)

Close Reading
Close Reading or Explication de texte operates on the premise that literature, as artifice, will be more fully understood and appreciated to the extent that the nature and interrelations of its parts are perceived, and that that understanding will take the form of insight into the theme of the work in question. This kind of work must be done before you can begin to appropriate any theoretical or specific literary approach. Follow these instructions so you don't follow what Mrs. Arable says about the magical web of Charlotte's in Charlotte's Web, "I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand."
(Source:The Literary Link, Close Reading)

Close Listening
Close listenings may contradict “readings” of poems that are based exclusively on the printed text and that ignore the poet's own performances, the “total” sound of the work, and the relation of sound to semantics.  Certainly, discussion of sound as a material and materializing dimension of poetry also calls into play such developments as sound poetry, performance poetry, radio plays and radio “space,” movie soundtracks, poetry/music collaborations, and other audioworks.  Beyond that, “close listenings” call for a non-Euclidean (or complex) prosody for the many poems for which traditional prosody does not apply.
(Source: Bernstain, Close Listening)

Close Viewing
Close viewing is to analyze a motion pictures to understand the real meaning that the motion maker really want to approach. It can be a motion picture without a sound, but usually the motion pictures contains a sound to make the viewer understand. For more explanation Lehman, Close Viewing

Why Books?

There are so many kind of movies based on the books. Oftentimes, the books that were filmed are usually far from the readers’ imagination. One of the reasons why this happened is because not all of the story in the books will be visualized in the movies in case that it will make the movies longer. This essay will explain you why books are much better than movies.

The first thing, books give the depth of what the author wants to say. A book can be a great medium for depicting life morals in great detail. They can explain emotions, displayed out word for word, so that the reader not only experiences the emotion but understands what they are feeling. Moreover, by this description, a book can delve deeply into the story itself. While a movie merely portrays events visually and audibly, a book gives reasons, motives, emotions deep inside a character, beyond what can be seen and heard, so that the audience will not only discover what happened and how, but why.

In addition to give the depth, books also make us to be the characters. While watching a movie you do not imagine what the character looks like or sounds like, but with a book you are the characters. You live in their eyes. With books, you will visualize your wide imagination of your own. It means that books will touch the readers appropriately. Besides, in movies, because there are so many scenes are not completely visualized, you will feel that there is something missing.

by Ikhtiarina Putri Shalehah

written for completing Advanced Writing's task

I-Learning for Literature Class

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