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Using Criticism and Theory
You can raise the intellectual challenge of your class and provoke more adventuresome and sophisticated writing by introducing criticism and theory into your classes from time to time. After all, teaching introductions to literature should bring you back to first principles, which is to say back to theory. The following exercises use theory or criticism to open up student thinking, to generate new kinds of questions, or to help students establish their own authority. Such materials should never be introduced as a way to close off discussion or to offer "the right answer."
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