English Literature A-Level
Critical and theoretical methods
What Critical and theoretical methods means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Approaches such as feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, ecocritical and narrative that can be applied to the subject, each a disciplined way of generating interpretation.
Topics that use Critical and theoretical methods
- Theory and independence (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Critical interpretation
- Evaluation of critical perspectives
- Independent reading
- Interpretive plurality
- Multiple meanings and plural readings
- Textual analysis and evidence
- Textual evidence and close analysis
- Wide and independent reading
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