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• Guidelines for Writing a Literary Essay

• How to write a great thesis statement

• Organizing your essay

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Sample Critical Essays

• "Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown: A Psychological Reading" from Bedford/St. Martin's Website

• "Serious Issues: A Psychological Evaluation of Aylmer in 'The Birthmark'" by Nicolle Brancazio

• "Price of Purity: A Psychological Interpretation of Hawthorne’s 'The Birthmark'" by Susan Kim

• "Aylmer The Narcissist: A Psychological Analysis of Hawthorne’s 'The Birthmark'" by Laura Stephens

• "A Deconstruction of Good Intentions in 'Bartleby'" by Nicolle Brancazio

• "Scorned For Life: A Feminist Interpretation of Hawthorne’s 'Young Goodman Brown'" by Susan Kim

• "An Exposition of the Stereotypes in Women in 'The Birthmark'" by Ron Robinson

• "Nathaniel Hawthorne, Closet Feminist: A Post-Feminist Response to 'The Birthmark'" by Laura Stephens

Glossaries of Literary Terms

• Virtual Salt

• Glossary of Literary Theory, U of Toronto

Further Reading in Critical Theories of Literature

• Timeline

• Theories

FC Library Book Reserve

• Guerin, Wilfred L., et al.  A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature.  3rd ed.  New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

Authors Links (forthcoming)

• David Henry Hwang

  • David Henry Hwang talks about M. Butterfly (Part 1 of 2) (3:16)

  • David Henry Hwang talks about M. Butterfly (Part 2 of 2) (4:35)

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Herman Melville

• Edith Wharton