Historical lenses: Analyzes a work in its historical context (understanding the time

period, author’s background, and how the events of the time affect the author and
possibly the characters of the text) such as what time period was the work written,
and what time period is the literary work taking place in.

Structuralism: Structuralist criticism literary text to a larger structure, which may

be a particular genre, a range of intertextual connections, a model of a universal
narrative structure, or a system of recurrent patterns or motifs.

Environmental: Environmental may refer either to actual physical surroundings or

to social or cultural background factors: an environment of crime and grinding
poverty. Milieu, encountered most often in literary writing, refers to intangible
aspects of the environment: an exhilarating milieu of artistic ferment and
innovation.

Marxist Criticism: A type of literary criticism based on the writings of German

philosopher Karl Marx. In its simplest form, Marxist criticism attempts to show the
relationship between literature and the social conditions mainly economic under
which it was produced.
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