Directions
Read the following short story:
"Young Goodman Brown."by Nathanial Hawthorne
Read the following psycoanalytic approach to that story:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown": A Psychoanalytic Reading by Margaret Weld
Write a two paragraph response to Weld's essay and the story including the following:Add MLA works cited entries for any sources you quoted and/or paraphrased.
A one-paragraph response to psychoanalytic criticism as a valid and useful tool for interpreting this story and one-paragraph response to psychoanalytic criticism as not being a valid and useful tool for interpreting this story.
Use properly MLA-formatted citations from the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne,the psycoanalytic criticism "Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown": A Psychoanalytic Reading" by Marget Weld, and the critical theory summary you read in the previous assignment - "1.6 Introduction to Critical Theory." these can supplement Through the links to each critical theory listed in the following
Bedford/St. Martin's "Critical Approaches" overview.
Read an introduction to literary theory from
The Literary Theory Handbook
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