write a two-page self-reflection in which you describe your reason for choosing the selected works, your reason for choosing your theoretical approach, your writing process, and what you have learned about literature in general during the semester.

Assignment Question

Literary Analysis Assignment

The two short stories I have chosen is Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Circular Ruins.” and “The Library of Babel.” You will chose the critical approach theory of “Deconstruction” and either use the stories to illustrate the theory, or use the theory to explain or make a point about the stories

This will require that you use at least one outside high-quality academic paper for your research, and that you cite your sources correctly in the text and compose a reference section (all in CORRECT APA format).

You will also (though it is not part of a traditional literary analysis) write a two-page self-reflection in which you describe your reason for choosing the selected works, your reason for choosing your theoretical approach, your writing process, and what you have learned about literature in general during the semester.

The paper itself will contain an introduction (in which you introduce the authors and the works you select), an argument (including a proper thesis statement), summaries of the works, a brief introduction of your theoretical approach, a close read in which you demonstrate your theory’s application and validity and prove your “argument.” You should strongly consider including a section in which you account for alternate interpretations of the work (some people say…). Finally, you will have a conclusion and the reference section.