What is the Critical Lens you will apply?
In every literary analysis, the critic (you) has a set of beliefs about what aspects of the story reveal its meaning. Feminist critics look at gender representations and relationships in a story to find its meaning, Psychoanalytic critics look at the character’s inner workings, their actions and the writer’s life to find the story’s meaning, and – as we saw in module two – New Critical critics look for internal qualities of the story to reveal its meanings, particularly paradoxes, ambiguities, tensions, patterns (repetition), and symbolism.
You have been asked to use a New Critical Lens for your analysis, so that means you’ll need to final meaning in the story’s paradoxes, ambiguities, tensions, patterns or symbolism. How do you add this lens to the frame you’ve started building?
First, return to your quotes. Which of the ideas apply to the individual quotes? There are many options, but I find it easy to keep things simple. Choose one or two critical concepts that work with all of your examples.
Second, looking back through your quotes, determine which 1 or 2 concepts from New Criticism best fit the quote.
Third, once you decide, go back through your preliminary thesis and topic sentences, and layer in this critical lens in Worksheet Below
Worksheet for Web Assignment 3:
Use your Lab 3 submission for the “Original” Thesis and “Original” Topic Sentences In Worksheet Below –
Paste in (from Lab 3) Original Preliminary Thesis:
Now rewrite thesis to layer 1 or 2 concepts from New Crit. You saw in your quotes
New Preliminary thesis:
Paste in Original Topic Sentence 1: from Lab 3
Now layer in concept (symbol, pattern, etc)
Paste in Original Topic Sentence 2: from Lab 3
Now layer in concept (symbol, pattern, etc)
New topic Sentence 2:
Paste in Original Topic Sentence 3: from Lab 3
Now layer in concept (symbol, pattern, etc)
New topic Sentence 3:
Paste in Original Topic Sentence 4: from Lab 3
Now layer in concept (symbol, pattern, etc)
New topic Sentence 4:
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