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Types of Literary Theories
Utilizing the Metaphor of a Critical Lens
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Reader ResponseTalking to the TextRead Aloud
Part 1
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A theory provides an angle or perspective you will take when you look at a text.
Each lens is a view point or opinion.
It doesn’t mean that the theories’ perspectives will necessarily disagree.
What is Critical Lens Theory?
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This is the relationship between the text and the reader.
The reader must find meaning in the literature itself.◦ Who is the piece written for and why?◦ What interpretations are created?
Because we don’t read in a vacuum, we are creating an argument based on what we know- not just on text.
Basically, this is what you [the readers] think.
Reader Response Theory
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Reel
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When we Talk to the Text, we will exam a picture, text, paper, or experience to explore how our internal thoughts and feelings individually. We will record these ideas on the text itself, post-it notes, or our journals. We will consider our terminology, author’s purpose, background knowledge, questions, ideas, emotions, and vocabulary when analyzing the text. By doing so, we will have a record on the text itself our initial reaction and continuing consideration of the text as we consider it for ourselves.
Talking to the Text
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Birds
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Candy Cigarette
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Read “A&P” on page 833 through a Reader Response Lens utilizing Talking to the Text.
Homework
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Background: the story came to Updike when he was driving past the store and saw girls who looked “surprisingly naked.”
What do you think about the story?
A&PReader Response
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Feminist Lens Marxist Lens Structural/Archetypal Lens Psychoanalytic Lens
Part 2
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This perspective takes into account the feelings and actions associated with the male and female characteristics in a work of literature.
1. Feminist Lens
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“No written law has ever been more binding than
unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.” –Carrie Chapman Catt
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Reinforce or undermine economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women.
Men = thought, aggression, assertion, rationalism
Women = feeling, passivity, non-rationalism, (all which keep them from holding positions of power)
Feminist Lens
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1. How is the relationship of men/women portrayed?2. What is power relationship between men and women?3. How are gender roles defined?4. What constitutes masculinity v femininity
(economically, politically, socially, or psychologically)?5. Do characters take on traits of the opposite gender?6. What does the work imply about the possibility of
sisterhood forming to resist patriarchy?7. What does the work say about women's’ creativity?
A&P with Feminist Lens Questions
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Karl Marx thought the world consisted of a series of class struggles: oppressor v oppressed.
Literature expresses class struggle and materialism where a quest for wealth often defines a character.
2. Marxist Lens
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“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” –Karl Marx
Marxist Lens
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1. What role does class play in the story?2. How does a character overcome
oppression?3. In what way is the work propaganda for
status quo? Or does it undermine status quo? Status quo: Keeping things the way they currently
are4. Are social conflicts ignored or blamed?5. Does the literature propose a Utopian
(perfected) vision to the current society?
A&Pwith Marxist Lens Questions
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The text is shaped by myths of the cultural recurring images, symbols, patterns, and motifs.◦ Characters like the witch, the scapegoat, the hero,
or the wise old man◦ Situations like birth, death, rebirth, or sacrifice◦ Settings like forests, water, or cavesAll of these things make us think a certain
way to predict the text.
3. Structural/Archetypal Lens
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“You can’t look at a text as if it were in a vacuum-
everyone recognizes story patterns and symbols in
text.” – Karl Jung
Structural/Archetypal Lens
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1. How do characters in text mirror archetypal figures?
2. Does it mirror literary patterns?3. Is the protagonist a hero?4. Does the hero embark on a journey?5. Is there a journey to the underworld or
land of the dead?6. What trials does the narrator face?7. What is the reward for overcoming them?
A&Pwith Archetypal Lens Questions
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This lens is based on Freudian Theories of psychology.
People’s behaviors are based on the unconscious, and they are driven by desire, fear, need, and conflict.◦ Mostly from childhood events◦ Children need parents and
from the relationship with or without them, children are developed.
4. Psychoanalytic Lens
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ID: Location of drives (libido)EGO: Defense against power of driveSUPEREGO: Houses judgment of self
and others (unconscious)
Psychoanalytic Lens
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1. How does the idea of repression inform the work?
2. Are there family dynamics at work here?3. How is the character’s behavior in line
with ID, EGO, and SUPEREGO?4. What does the work say about the author?5. What does your interpretation say about
you as a reader?
A&Pwith Psychoanalytic Questions
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Homework: Read Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wall Paper on page 1149 utilizing one of the four lenses discussed in Part 2 (Feminist, Marxist, Archetypal, or Psychoanalytic) and Talking to the Text.