Critical Reading Perspectives
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Critical Reading Perspectives
….Cuz there’s never just one
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Feminist• Read in terms of the
female identity• Concerned with:• social & cultural
attitudes towards women
• Issues arising from male or female narrative
• Patriarchy or male hegemony
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Reader-response• Read in terms of the
individual & how they creates meaning
• Concerned with:• reader’s cultural values &
how attitudes lead to assumptions about characters etc
• How reader “fill gaps” that are either ambiguous or contradictory
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Race/post colonial• Read in terms of representation of ethnicity
• Concerned with:• how race & injustice are dealt with• Esp; written or set in colonial times• Power ( hegemony) is often a common motif• Highlights western attitudes toward nationality &
ethnicity• Assumptions & paradigms expressed implicitly or
explicitly by author and/or characters
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Genre
• Read in terms of the type of genre
• Fiction, non-fiction, Detective, Thriller, Comic, Tragedy
• Concerned with: • how text embodies
characteristics & conventions associated with particular genre
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Cultural/historical• Read in terms of how it
reveals culture & ideologies of the time
• Concerned with:• facts or opinion about the
time period• Understanding that texts
no “stand alone” but read with historical understanding
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Structuralist
• Read in terms of how novel put together &
how ideas are put together• Concerned with:• How does construction
represents author’s view of the world
• diction, form, paradox, motifs, patterns
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Marxist• Read in terms of
exploring issues of social class and power, especially the treatment of working class
• Concerned with: • political, cultural, and
social contexts
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Psychoanalytic
• Read in terms of exploring how humans think, react
• Concerned with: • Human behavior • Human behavior as it
applies to social & cultural- ethical attitudes
• Human psychology, • internal & external conflicts
within the characters
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The End