Duplicate of Introduction to Critical Lenses

What is the lens concerned with allusions to deities and other symbols?

Psychoanalytic critics consider the three levels of the mind, which according to Freud, are the

Which lens analyzes the components of a text (verse, page breaks, etc.)?

Critics who operate on the assumption that our civilization is a patriarchy are

What would be the obvious lens to apply to the following quote: "You throw like a girl, Suzy!"

Which lens is the most commonly used in elementary school?

Critics who identify and analyze rhetorical and literary devices in a text are

Which critics see literary works as a reflection of the author’s life and times? 

The movement of economic power through time is a main focus of