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

<p>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.</p> <p>This PowerPoint contains essential questions for the following critical approaches/criticisms:</p> <ul> <li>Formalistic Approach</li> <li>Biographical Approach</li> <li>Historical Approach</li> <li>Psychological Approach</li> <li>Mythological/ Archetypal approach</li> <li>Philosophical Approach</li> <li>Marxist Criticism</li> <li>Feminist Criticism</li> </ul>

<p>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.</p> <p>This document contains essential questions for postcolonial literary criticism.</p>