Literary criticism viewpoint cards

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Edna Hobbs
Literary criticism viewpoint cards
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Literature: Reading
Resource type
Student activity

Eight literary criticism viewpoint cards to give to students working in groups. Assign individual students a different card, and students then compare a different literary theoretical stance to the same text. The literary criticism theories include: 

  • The Great Tradition
  • Reader response
  • Russian formalists 
  • Genre theory
  • Psychoanalytical
  • Structuralism
  • Feminism 
  • Marxist/post-colonial

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20/10/2020

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13/03/2019

This is wonderful! I am teaching kids for whom English is a foreign llanguage and the cards ar eMOST clear and helpful!

15/03/2014

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20/10/2020

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29/07/2019

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13/03/2019

This is wonderful! I am teaching kids for whom English is a foreign llanguage and the cards ar eMOST clear and helpful!

15/03/2014

I used them by giving out the cards after laminating them for students to re use.Then get students to look at the same story but from different critical positions and only from the position they have on their card to really focus their understanding and to create a debate in the classroom.

09/09/2013

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