Etiqueta: The Purloined Letter
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Deconstruction by Ericka Koehler
“Deconstruction involves the close reading of texts in order to demonstrate that any given text has irreconcilably contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole (Mambrol, 2016).” In the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Purloined Letter,” we can apply a Deconstructivist analysis and observe that binaries are present. In the story, a royal…
