anchor: And they also fulfill the basic mandate of literary analysis, which is to illuminate the works they  To return to Verdi's Aida , Conrad's Heart of Darkness , or Kipling's Kim after reading Said on them is to find them richer, stranger, and more complicated than you had ever imagined.
positive: After you read Said's literary analyses of certain works, if you reread them, you'll find that they are richer and more complex.
negative: The literary criticism of Said doesn't even fulfill the basic mandate of literary analysis.