These exegetical papers are a chance for you to perform a careful, interpretive reading on one of the primary texts. It is not a summary or a place to cram in everything you have learned from the class. Rather it is a chance to show how a text functions. Papers might ask: How does a detail or trope in the texts produce a desire or affect? How does a specific moment in the text help us understand a broader theme? How does negation or unlearning happen in that moment? Why is it important that it happens the way it does?
