You are asked to incorporate literary critical theory into your explication of one of the
following texts. Read the link to Purdue’s Intro to Literary Theory and apply the questions to the text you
choose. Once you begin your draft, then you can begin to look for sources from our library (both books and
database journals—no websites) for backing.
To begin, choose one of the following texts to work with:
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
“The Birth-Mark”
“Bartleby, The Scrivener”
“The Fall of The House of Usher”
“The Wound Dresser”
“The American Scholar”
Then choose a critical approach:
Feminist
Marxist
New Historical
Psychoanalytical
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