What's the point of analyzing literature?

02.10.2015
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Erika Kvistad gives you some of the answers in this article.

Originally, the word analysis meant taking something apart, dissolving it, splitting it into pieces. This might seem like a cruel thing to do to a piece of literature, and yet it’s the one thing your high school English course is supposed to teach you how to do.

 

Click on the link below to read the rest of the article as well as a rather spooky short story ...