Peter Hollindale (born 1936) is an educationalist and literary critic. He taught at Derwent College, York from 1965 to 1999.[1]

Three levels of ideology

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Hollindale's most renowned theory[according to whom?] was that of the three levels of ideology in a text, which pertained to all four modern reading approaches (author-centred, reader-centred, text-centred, world-view-centred).

The levels are as follows:

  1. The author's profound message in a text
  2. The unexamined assumptions of the author
  3. The ideologies of the author's world

References

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  1. ^ "M Block - Derwent College, the University of York". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2014.

Hollindale, Peter (1998) Ideology and The Children's Book, Thimble Press: Woodchester, UK ISBN 0-903355-26-4