: Literary analysis: Requisites for a formal critique? The misery of a self-didactic literary analysis lies with its perpetuity. One can go on and on and on, especially when a thesis is on the

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The misery of a self-didactic literary analysis lies with its perpetuity. One can go on and on and on, especially when a thesis is on the line.
Besides scoping text and narrative for examples to correspond with one's choice of critical approach,* how does one know when to stop? A close reading of even a short story, let alone a novel, can become a hydra.
Garnered requirements seem to be the following, but is a category missing?
- Theme
- Structure
- Style
- Discussion sifted through a specific critical approach*

Thank you for learned opinions and knowledge of the discipline.
(*maybe say, a "Bakhtinian analysis" or a "feminist analysis".)

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