3.3.3.3: Critical Perspectives

• Critical perspectives help reveal hidden assumptions in literary texts.


  True
• The postcolonial perspective promotes cultural awareness.

  True
• Steps in applying critical perspectives to compare texts across time:

  1️⃣ Choose two or more texts for comparison

  2️⃣ Select a critical perspective

  3️⃣ Identify key themes and ideas in each text

  4️⃣ Analyze how the critical perspective reveals similarities and differences

  5️⃣ Develop a comparative essay based on the analysis
• Comparative analysis involves examining the similarities and differences between two or more texts
• Key critical perspectives include feminist, Marxist, and psychoanalytic
• What does the postcolonial perspective study?

  Colonialism, cultural identity
• What does historical criticism explore in a literary work?

  Historical context, cultural influences
• Critical perspectives reveal hidden assumptions in literary texts


  True
• Which critical perspective analyzes unconscious desires and psychological motivations?

  Psychoanalytic
• Match the critical perspective with its focus:

  Feminist ↔️ Gender roles

  Marxist ↔️ Social class

  Psychoanalytic ↔️ Unconscious desires
• Applying critical perspectives to comparative analysis allows you to uncover deeper connections
• In a comparative essay, you must examine each text through the lens of the selected critical perspectives
• Critical perspectives are different lenses through which we can analyze literary texts, revealing various meanings and layers that might otherwise be overlooked
• What does the postcolonial perspective study?

  Colonialism and cultural identity
• Match the critical perspective with its key theorist:

  Feminist ↔️ Judith Butler

  Psychoanalytic ↔️ Sigmund Freud

  Historical ↔️ Michel Foucault
• Critical perspectives broaden our understanding of literary texts by revealing hidden assumptions and multiple layers of meaning
• A feminist analysis of two novels from different eras might reveal how the portrayal of female characters has evolved over time.


  True
• The feminist perspective explores female experiences and challenges patriarchal
• Post-structuralist criticism examines how language and structure challenge traditional interpretations.


  True
• What does the Historical perspective explore in literary analysis?

  Historical and cultural influences
• What does the Marxist perspective examine in literary texts?

  Social class and capitalism
• The Historical perspective explores how a text engages with its historical setting
• What might a feminist analysis reveal when comparing two novels from different eras?

  Evolution of gender dynamics
• What is the first step in developing a critical perspective-based comparative essay?

  Identify relevant perspectives
• The feminist perspective challenges patriarchal norms
• Which theorist is associated with the Marxist perspective?

  Karl Marx
• What does comparative analysis involve?

  Examining similarities and differences
• Steps in applying critical perspectives to compare texts across time

  1️⃣ Identify Perspectives

  2️⃣ Analyze Individually

  3️⃣ Compare Findings

  4️⃣ Consider Context
• Match the critical perspective with its focus:

  Feminist ↔️ Gender roles, women's representation

  Marxist ↔️ Social class, economic systems

  Psychoanalytic ↔️ Psychological motivations, unconscious desires
• Match the critical perspective with its key concept:

  Feminist ↔️ Patriarchal norms

  Marxist ↔️ Class conflict

  Psychoanalytic ↔️ Unconscious desires
• The Post-Structuralist perspective focuses on the deconstruction of meaning
• The Feminist perspective challenges patriarchal norms
• The Post-Structuralist perspective questions fixed meanings in language

  True
• Steps in applying critical perspectives to compare texts across time:

  1️⃣ Identify relevant critical perspectives

  2️⃣ Analyze each text individually through those perspectives

  3️⃣ Compare findings to identify similarities and differences

  4️⃣ Consider the historical, cultural, and social contexts
• Match the critical perspective with its application:

  Feminist ↔️ Challenges patriarchal norms

  Marxist ↔️ Interprets class conflicts

  Psychoanalytic ↔️ Understands psychological conflicts