Final Paper:<\/p>\n
Format and Instructions:<\/p>\n
The paper is\u00a05-6 pages. It is due by\u00a06:00pm on Tuesday December 6th via Blackboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Please use\u00a0page numbers\u00a0and save your file in a readable format. I prefer Microsoft Word, but a PDF is fine.<\/p>\n
Close-Reading:\u00a0While this paper is longer than your first paper, your ideas should come from a close-reading of specific passages of the text. You should be quoting from the text to make your arguments, not because the quotes offer an \u2018example\u2019 of a general point, but because the language of the text is how you understand how the text defines, and uses the issues that form the core of your paper. The question you are setting out to answer should not be one that is easily answered by the plot, but rather one that asks how a particular issue or question is represented, explored, and resolved (or not resolved) in the text. You are not required or advised to use secondary sources. However, if you cite ideas or facts outside of the text (including generalizations about the nineteenth century), please make sure to document and cite those sources.\u00a0 Use either MLA or Chicago style, the important thing is consistency.<\/p>\n
Format: You have more freedom in matters of format, but the goals are still the same\u2014clarity, specificity, and engagement with the text. If writing on more than one text, I highly recommend treating each text in its own section rather than trying to address both texts in successive paragraphs throughout the paper.\u00a0For more, please see \u201cPaper help\u201d on Blackboard.<\/p>\n
Choice of texts: As always, I recommend writing on texts (or rather moments in texts) that interest you. What interests you might be different from what you agree with or like. Because this is a relatively short paper, I do not recommend trying to write on two long texts. It is, however, possible to address two shorter texts (prose or poetry) even in the space provided. For advice on a paper that takes up two texts, please see our \u201cWriting Guide.\u201d The key is to focus on\u00a0difference\u00a0rather than general similarity. Do not use two texts from the same era. <\/p>\n
Note about the Questions: You will notice that I have questions within questions. This is designed to model the kind of approach I would like to see you take\u2014to pose questions that help you narrow your focus.\u00a0 You are\u00a0not\u00a0required in any way to\u00a0answer or address\u00a0all or even more than one of the questions I have offered. The key is to form a narrower focus\u00a0within\u00a0the larger issue. I would recommend choosing your texts (and even moments in the texts) before choosing a prompt or formulating your topic. The texts themselves will help you narrow and frame your question.<\/p>\n
Questions\/Prompts:<\/p>\n
Modern Love: Focusing closely on two works, explore the way desire is represented and how it functions. What does desire or even the negation of desire yield or produce in these texts? Is desire the goal in itself, or is it a means to other (seemingly antithetical) ends?\u00a0 What forms of desire are represented as off limits or dangerous and what are the effects of indulging those desires?\u00a0 Conversely, when and to what effect is non-normative desire represented in positive or salutary terms. Please use specific examples when discussing the issues in these texts.<\/p>\n
\u201cSigns of a Slavery in our England\u201d: Focusing closely on two works, examine the way slavery\u2014either literal and metaphorical\u2014is defined and used in these texts. How does the representation of (literal or metaphorical) slavery intersect with discussions of power relations more generally? How are power and agency bound up with questions of gender, race, or class? In what ways are power relations maintained, threatened, or reversed, and to what effect? Please use specific examples when discussing the issues in these texts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Writing Women: Focusing closely on two texts, explore the role of women or the feminine. Are they the audience of the text or its subject? Are they characters within it? What is the relationship between the speaker (male or female) and female figures in the texts, and what is at stake in these relationships? How do female writers respond to the construction of women in these works? In their work, do they offer a different model of gender difference or merely recapitulate (by inverting) the male model? What is at stake in the difference (if there is a difference) they offer? Please use specific examples when discussing the issues in these texts.<\/p>\n
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Focusing closely on two works, explore how they represent and deploy the figure of the child, the idea of childhood, or child-parent \/ familial relations. More broadly, you can address some of the most common ideas associated with childhood or family\u2014questions of innocence, education, development (and evolution), hierarchy, gender, or power relations. What issues does a focus on the child help us see differently? What kinds of hierarchies or structures of inequality does the figure of the child or the idea of family establish or support?\u00a0 How do familial relationships impact questions of identity, authenticity, gender, or sexuality? Please use specific examples when discussing the issues in these texts.<\/p>\n
Mechanical Reproduction:\u00a0Focusing closely on two works, examine the relationship between mechanical reproduction and \u2018organic\u2019 reproduction\u2014either in terms of biological, environmental, or artistic production.\u00a0 How does industrialism redefine literature and art? Or, how does the crisis that industrialism represents provoke a redefinition of art in terms outside of the industrial? If literature is to be separated from the economic and \u201cmechanical\u201d sphere, what and where is the new place of art? Above all, what are the implications of the ways in which art is differentiated from or brought together with industry?\u00a0 Please use specific examples when discussing the issues in these texts.<\/p>\n
\u201cNature Red in Tooth and Claw\u201d: Focusing closely on two works, explore how they represent the relationship between \u201cnature\u201d and \u201cculture.\u201d This might be the relationship between a scientific view of nature and faith. It might be the relationship between cultural norms and claims of essential difference (for example in class or gender). Please use specific examples when discussing the issues in these texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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