This paper proposes a close reading of T.S. Eliot's poetry, drama, and criticism as an examination

undergraduate classrooms who are reading these anthologies. On the other hand, scholars of Shakespeare pedagogy

gender analyses taken from the close reading of the female Beat texts.

culminates, in my reading, in a hermeneutic method that allows James, perhaps unwittingly, to engage in the

womanist theory by offering a critical reading of Lauryn Hill and the reception of her debut solo album