Word: lensing
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When a reader approaches a novel through a critical lens “we’re also honoring the novel’s difference from other discourses and other modes of knowing.” To put down Lolita and simply like it is not good enough.
Now, Dartboard admits that she’s not well-versed in the art of party-throwing, but she is quite aware of the benefits of playing party hostess—she’s afforded that invaluable position in which she becomes privy to everyone’s most...
Daddy’s Home could easily serve as a Saturday Night Live parody of modern hip-hop. Though the messiah fails to deliver us from the sinful and tiresome world of flashy cars and hollow lyrics, his caricature only accentuates these absurdities. What’s more, his own...
John Rawls’ concept of the “veil of ignorance” gives us a powerful moral lens through which we can assess the treatment of society’s most disadvantaged people. His framework asks us to understand that anyone could have been born into an...
University President Lawrence H. Summers recently used morning prayers at Memorial Church to defend economics as a lens through which we can analyze our problems. I’m certain he was intending for us to apply economic principles to our gravest concerns—perhaps the pros and cons...