“If you are looking to secure the top grades, you should consider including literary criticism in your analysis.” A feminist critique of My Last Duchess offers students a way to critically engage with the poem in a deeper and meaningful way. The PowerPoint includes: Approaches to Feminist Criticism questions; Model language and structural analysis including a grade 7+ analytical paragraph using a feminist critique; 11 visually appealing slides with differentiated questions and tasks. NB: This resource is NOT intended to be the first and only lesson used to explore Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess.

Critical approaches to literature gives readers a chance to view a text with a ‘different set of lenses’ which is key for stronger textual analysis. This PowerPoint contains essential questions for the following critical approaches/criticisms: Formalistic Approach Biographical Approach Historical Approach Psychological Approach Mythological/ Archetypal approach Philosophical Approach Marxist Criticism Feminist Criticism

Critical approaches to literature gives readers a chance to view a text with a ‘different set of lenses’ which is key for stronger textual analysis. This document contains essential questions for postcolonial literary criticism.