A critical lens is when they give you a statement or phrase that you have to compare to one or more novels, usually two.

Instead, he viewed propaganda, like others such as Robert K. Merton and Jacques Ellul, through a critical lens, as a form of social control.

A key focus of the discipline is to interrogate epistemological approaches, theories and methods in traditional disciplines using a critical lens that inserts African-centred ways of knowing and references.

Viewed from Eliot's critical lens, The Waste Land likely shows his personal despair about World War I rather than an objective historical understanding of it.

Gender and citizenship as a critical lens for analysis in development (2005)

Her work explores communication through a critical and feminist lens.

As both woman and author, she observed the role of women in society through a critical lens.

Working with young people, Steve Goodman has noted that a video camera provides "a critical lens through which they can explore the world around them.

Most recently, Douglas Rushkoff has turned his critical lens to the medium of currency.

In just over a decade since its publication, Caballero has been analyzed under a number of other critical lenses.