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Introduction

There are two main facets to every reading of a literary text: the efferent and the aesthetic. The efferent reading is basically concerned with understanding the text as it is. That is to say, the reader should be able to comprehend the informational elements that are contained in the text, and be able to answer questions such as: what is the subject matter of the text? What is the text about? If there is a conflict, then what is it? And who are the characters involved in it? The reader should also be able to point out to the characters and describe them and narrate their deeds and contributions to the narrative. In short, an efferent reading of a short story, for example, means that the reader can retell the story as it appears in the text.

Efferent Reading

Efferently speaking, Luigi Pirandello's "War" is a story about a group of exhausted people, a few men and a woman, traveling in a second-class train carriage from Rome to another Italian town. The men in......

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