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Critical Approaches and Interpretation
Quick questions on Feminist and gender criticism explained: H2 Literature in English
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What are the questions a gender lens asks?Show answer
A feminist or gender reading foregrounds a cluster of related questions: Who speaks and who is spoken for? Who acts and who is acted upon? Whose perspective frames the narrative? How are spaces, roles and virtues divided by gender?
What is gender as a lens, not a verdict?Show answer
A gender reading is one perspective among several, and like any lens it can overreach. Some texts reward it richly; in others it illuminates only part of the picture. Keep the judgement to argue the reading where the text supports it and to recognise where other concerns, class, empire, the reader's role, are also in play. The aim is a reading that opens the text, not a verdict that closes it.
What is labels without close reading?Show answer
Asserting "the male gaze" or "patriarchy" without analysing the grammar, description or tone that would prove it.
What is q1?Show answer
Name three questions a gender lens asks of a text. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why must you distinguish what a text depicts from what it endorses? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Where in a passage might a gender reading find its strongest evidence? [3 marks]
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