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Introduction to Critical Lenses

Critical: 1) Inclined to judge severely and find fault 2) Characterized by careful, exact evaluation and judgment: a critical reading Lens: 1) A piece of transparent substance, usually glass...for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision 2) A channel through which something can be seen or understood; “She was studying the writing through the lens of a FBI agent.” Think perspective!

Critical + Lens = Careful, exact evaluation and judgement A channel through which something can be seen or understood

Karl Marx (May 5, 1818–March 14, 1883) German-Jewish philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, revolutionary, and icon

Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) German social scientist and philosopher, who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848).

When analyzing writing and the persona or viewpoint of the author, a Marxist critic would look at parts of society and economics to determine what perspective a writer is coming from.

Marxist Lens in a nutshell… Focuses on power and money in works of literature Who has the power/money? Who does not have power/money? Who is in the “upper class” and who is not? What happens as a result?

Feminist Critical Lens (Feminist Criticism) A Feminist: Anyone who thinks women and men should have equal rights. Beliefs: Our civilization is pervasively patriarchal. In other words, our “society” is determined and dictated by men

What we think of to be “masculine” or “feminine” is determined by ways of thinking in our culture and men's views toward certain things.

The patriarchal ideology also pervades those textual works. Such works lack autonomous female role models, are implicitly addressed to male readers, and leave the woman reader an alien outsider or else solicit her to identify herself by assuming male values…

The way men think is what we find in our books and texts The way men think is what we find in our books and texts. What we read often lacks good female role models and asks females to take on male values.

Feminist Lens in a nutshell... Cultural and economic “disabilities” of women have hindered or prevented women from realizing their creative possibilities... Somewhat like the Marxist lens - but instead of focusing on relationships between the classes, it focuses on the relationships between the genders.

Examines relationship between the power that men hold and the power that women hold. Questions if this power is equal and if it gives advantage to one sex (males).

Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism Psychological criticism deals with a work of literature primarily as an expression, in fictional form, of the personality, state of mind, feelings, and desires of its author.

Reference to the author’s personality is used to explain and interpret a literary work. Reference to literary works is made in order to establish, biographically, the personality of the author. The mode of reading a literary work itself is a way of experiencing the distinctive consciousness of its author.

This theory requires that we investigate the psychology of a character or an author to figure out the meaning of a text