Peter Hollindale

Peter Hollindale is an educationalist and literary critic. He taught at Derwent College, York from 1965 to 1999.

Three levels of ideology

Hollindale's most renowned theory was that of the three levels of ideology in a text, which pertained to all four modern reading approaches.
The levels are as follows:

The author's profound message in a text
The unexamined assumptions of the author
The ideologies of the author's world