Literary lenses

Which of these literary lenses think the READER is most important?

• Reader Response

• Formalism

• Biographical

• Psychological

Which of these literary lenses think the WRITER is most important?

• Reader Response

• Formalism

• Biographical

• Psychological

Which of these literary lenses think the TEXT is most important?

• Reader Response

• Formalism

• Biographical

• Psychological

Which of these literary lenses think the MIND is most important?

• Reader Response

• Formalism

• Biographical

• Psychological

Which of these literary lenses think GENDER is most important?

• Feminist

• Cultural

• New Historicist

• Deconstruction

Which of these literary lenses think POWER is most important?

• Feminist

• Cultural

• New Historicist

• Deconstruction

Which of these literary lenses think SOCIAL CLASS is most important?

• Feminist

• Cultural

• New Historicist

• Deconstruction

Which of these literary lenses think NOTHING is important?

• Feminist

• Cultural

• New Historicist

• Deconstruction

If I want to focus on a character's unconscious motivations I would chose this literary lens:

• psychological

• deconstruction

• feminist

• cultural

If I want to focus on how the text influences the world I would chose this literary lens:

• psychological

• deconstruction

• reader-response

• new historicist