Literary Criticism :

Many students ask about "author intention". "Did the author really mean for us to understand those symbols or are we just reading them into the work?" Here are some different schools of thought on how to analyze the meaning of stories. Please read the following three pages of explanation of some of the different types of literary criticism. What does it all mean ?!!!

Semiotics

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Marxist Criticism
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