What's the Lens?
This lens focuses on recurring characters, symbols, and themes across stories.
What is the Archetypal lens?
Archetypal lens is connected to this psychologist’s ideas.
Who is Carl Jung?
When using this lens, you “study the life of the author.”
What is the Biographical lens?
“Ignore the author and your feelings; focus only on the text.”
What is the Formal lens?
Conflict between “the haves” and “the have nots.”
What is the Social Class lens?
This lens looks at how beauty and art movements influence literature.
What is the Artistic lens?
The Psychological lens is based on this man’s theories.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This lens asks you to “create an art gallery” of related visuals.
What is the Artistic lens?
“We must examine how characters are treated based on ability.”
What is the Disability Studies lens?
Conflict between “normal” and “abnormal.”
What is the Disability Studies lens?
This lens uses the author’s life and experiences to interpret the story.
What is the Biographical lens?
The Deconstruction lens was founded by this philosopher.
Who is Jacques Derrida?
This lens asks you to “identify contradictions, conflicts, and oppositions.”
What is the Deconstruction lens?
“Power is unfairly divided between the colonizer and colonized.”
What is the Post-colonial lens?
Conflict between a dominant and marginalized culture.
What is the Cultural Criticism lens?
This lens looks at how race, class, religion, and region shape literature.
What is the Cultural Criticism lens?
The Social Class lens is based on this economic theory.
What is Marxism?
With this lens, you “write field notes like a literary explorer.”
What is the Ecological lens?
“Let’s explore how gender roles are reinforced or broken.”
What is the Gender lens?
Conflict between historical time period and text meaning.
What is the Historical lens?
This lens explores how nature is represented and affected in a story.
What is the Ecological lens?
The Reader lens is based on this theory.
What is Reader Response Theory?
This lens asks you to “complete a diagnostic examination of a character.”
What is the Psychological lens?
“Our reactions as readers shape the meaning of a text.”
What is the Reader lens?
Conflict between masculine and feminine expectations.
What is the Gender lens?