Take your literary criticism a step past "the death of the author" to "the afterlife of the author" with this example of a student paper at The House of Forbidden Knowledge!

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A Xenolinguistic Analysis of a Few Lines of Ancient Verse

Here's another typical preliminary paper from a first-year student working on a core course assignment. Its roughness should not be expected to exemplify the standards we demand from finished work.

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