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Unit 4: Independent explorations
Quick questions on Critical perspectives and reading lenses in QCE Literature Unit 4
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How does the text represent gender?Show answer
Whose experience is centred, whose is marginal, and what does the text assume is natural about the roles it depicts? The lens surfaces the gendered assumptions a text takes for granted.
How does the text handle power between cultures?Show answer
Who is positioned as central and who as other, whose perspective frames the encounter, and what does the text assume about the cultures it represents? The lens surfaces the cultural assumptions inside representation.
How does the text represent class and economic power?Show answer
What work do money, labour and ownership do in the story, and whose interests does the text's resolution serve? The lens surfaces the economic structure beneath the personal drama.
What is feminist criticism?Show answer
How does the text represent gender? Whose experience is centred, whose is marginal, and what does the text assume is natural about the roles it depicts? The lens surfaces the gendered assumptions a text takes for granted.
What is postcolonial criticism?Show answer
How does the text handle power between cultures? Who is positioned as central and who as other, whose perspective frames the encounter, and what does the text assume about the cultures it represents? The lens surfaces the cultural assumptions inside representation.
What is marxist criticism?Show answer
How does the text represent class and economic power? What work do money, labour and ownership do in the story, and whose interests does the text's resolution serve? The lens surfaces the economic structure beneath the personal drama.
What is psychoanalytic criticism?Show answer
What desires, fears and unconscious patterns drive the characters and shape the text's symbols? The lens reads for what the text knows without saying.
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