Literature as a Lense

colonized, the colonizers, and the world around them. The theory is often applied to literature through themes or lenses which dissect the literature in an attempt to understand the effects of colonization to the fullest. “Postcolonial theory challenges us as readers to see the world differently, to look at history, literature, language, and culture in new ways.” (Baldwin & Quinn, 2007, p. 18) Interpreting literature through a post-colonial theoretical lens is similar to using a magnifying glass to

When looking at a piece of literature, reviewing it may be difficult to do in an overall sense. Seeing as there are endless aspects to a good work of literature, trying to review one on this general basis may be unfair to the work itself. Due to the complexity of literature, and human nature’s love for categorization, we started looking at pieces of literature through “critical lenses”. The lenses help us narrow down the aspects of our criticism, effectively categorizing them. For example, there

Throughout the semester I worked on a project journal. Using a blog to respond to 25 books, I was exposed to new literature, genres, and authors. Going back and coding my journals, I noticed a specific pattern. Personal and artistic are two different response-roles/lenses I found myself while writing about my thoughts and feelings for each book; a lens I noticed myself hardly using was intertextural. Seeing myself using a pattern of personal and artistic response-roles was not surprising to me

Due to the variety of text I read, I used a range of lenses when engaging with the text in my responses. This has shown me how I tend to react to a text, and what lenses I don’t use as often. Also, I am able to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages that come with engaging with the text with certain lenses. All of this has led to my development of engaging with literature. When reflecting on the responses that I have written to the literature that I read throughout the semester, I have made a

with lenses. Living in small town Farmington Maine the viewpoint that most of my peers hold is the same because everything that they have experienced is fed through the same lense. However my points of view are filtered through my experiences, these are the what’s, the how’s and the why’s. I have seen how other cultures think and process information while traveling through life. This is an experience that is special to travel, without the ability to experience a situation first had a lense is needed

often allow me to notice in literature, what are the drawbacks to using this lens so frequently, and how much my engagement with literature would’ve changed if I had used more of the intertextual lens that I used the least. In my opinion the lens that I utilized the most, the literary lens, allowed me to only analyze the text on a very superficial level, only skimming the surface of the literature. The literary lens incorporates the very basic components to literature including: diction, tone, characterization

Parallels to the Deaf World talks about how different lenses can be used to look at literature in order to gain new perspectives as well as an appreciation for literature and human life. It focuses on four main lenses called the “Deaf Studies Template”, in which the author uses to make parallels between Harry Potter and the Deaf World. These lenses are: Only in the Deaf World, Minority Issues, Institutions, and Edenic Narrative. The first lense or category in the “Deaf Studies Template” that is talked

American Literature, messages and themes are included in most writings using literary lenses.. The messages give of lessons for life, love, death and other ideas. Ernest Hemingway is a well known American author that wrote “The Three Day Blow” and “Indian Camp”. Marxism, inspired by Karl Marx, is one lens that focuses on the social classes and the whom the work is benefiting. Another lens, the psychoanalytic len, is based on the subconscious’ craving inspired by Sigmund Freud. These lenses are both

Ernest Andrew Bazaldua English 1302 Jessica Cuellar May 18, 2016 Rough Draft #1 It is estimated that there are over 6 billion people that inhabit the earth currently. Each and every one of these persons is considered unique due to their own believes and experiences. These components are what come into play when someone reads a piece of text. These one of these unique people was William Shakespeare; known as one of the greatest writers of all time.The stories he created had characters that could

Scenes “Husbands can object to their wives working and prevent them from accepting jobs in fifteen economies” (Reiner). Critical lens’ exist. They can be in literature, but also can be in other works. They are present so readers can criticize and analyze literature. An example of a critical lense is Feminism. This applies to literature and other works because female characters often always play a minor role in the action of the work because the male characters in the action of the work over power