How texts encode ideology — class, gender, race, power, environment — and how to read through Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, ecocritical, psychoanalytic and reader-response lenses. Includes 10 lessons, worksheets, samples and marking criteria.
What ideology is and how texts naturalise it; each major critical lens explained with key thinkers, guiding questions, worked applications and pitfalls of 'theory dumping'.
Open the Guide →Ten lessons — one lens per lesson plus synthesis and exam application — with stimuli, questions, Band 6 samples, criteria and worksheets.
Open the Lessons →The philosophers have only interpreted the world…; the point is to change it.— Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, XI (1845)