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Literary criticism should be utilized "in order to make what is implicit in a book finely explicit" (Bloom, 2000, p. 19). Readers, students and teachers, should use the tools of critical literary theory and not be used by them. Literary criticism is a method of understanding, but the theory relies on developing self-understanding as well, and it is that desire to understand ourselves and the world that pushes me and my students to read.

Crash course on literary theory

A crash course in literary theories

Literary theories and examples

Great videos on Ms Huma's G-Sites on a Literary thories and reading practices

The videos here link into what we watched today.

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