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Group 5

Kayla Alter

Mary Toth

Stephanie Finnigan

Devan Roulhac

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lenses

1. Historical

2. Gender

3. Reader Response

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Historical

• What is it again?

• Why is it important to look at text through this

lense?

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Their eyes were watching

god

• What do we know

about Zora Neale

Hurston?

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kEEP IN MIND

Do you think she had a stereotypical

experience for women at the time?

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PAGEs 89 (133, 33)

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rEADER rESPONSE

• Louise Rosenblatt

• Focuses on reader and

reader’s own meaning

• SimpleComplex

• Topical, Interpretive,

Formal

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BLACK MINSTRELSY


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