Paper 1 Assignment
For Monday 31 July please write a 4-7 page paper that applies one of the critical methods we've already studied to a short literary work of your choosing, preferably a poem. The work may be from any anglophone author, period, or culture, and a photocopy (please, no more than 10 or 15 pages) should be submitted with the paper. Alternately, if the work you have chosen is available online you may include the web address. Source citation and bibliography should follow MLA format, including the appropriate conventions for digital texts if you use any.
When writing your paper, you should consider the basic practices of the method you've chosen, such as whether it uses external or only internal evidence, whether it tends to build toward one or two main issues (i.e. complicity with ideology or the demonstration of the protagonist's unconscious desires), and so on. The "What ________ critics do" sections of Barry are useful for this. It is also advisable to summarize briefly the method you are applying so that the principles of your analysis are clear (you should do that in the exam). Be sure to avail yourself of the definitions provided in Abrams and feel free to look at the Further or Optional readings for primary theoretical material. I can make further suggestions for you if you'd like some.
You can, if you wish, use more than one theory to critique your chosen work, but you are only required to use one. Research, too, is not necessary, so if there's a particular issue you want to address in detail and would like to bring in scholarly articles, please use only one or two.
In the spirit of community I invite you to post questions or ideas for the paper as you are working on it. Of course, you can email me privately or go to my office hours to ask any questions, request reading recommendations, or discuss drafts.
For Monday 31 July please write a 4-7 page paper that applies one of the critical methods we've already studied to a short literary work of your choosing, preferably a poem. The work may be from any anglophone author, period, or culture, and a photocopy (please, no more than 10 or 15 pages) should be submitted with the paper. Alternately, if the work you have chosen is available online you may include the web address. Source citation and bibliography should follow MLA format, including the appropriate conventions for digital texts if you use any.
When writing your paper, you should consider the basic practices of the method you've chosen, such as whether it uses external or only internal evidence, whether it tends to build toward one or two main issues (i.e. complicity with ideology or the demonstration of the protagonist's unconscious desires), and so on. The "What ________ critics do" sections of Barry are useful for this. It is also advisable to summarize briefly the method you are applying so that the principles of your analysis are clear (you should do that in the exam). Be sure to avail yourself of the definitions provided in Abrams and feel free to look at the Further or Optional readings for primary theoretical material. I can make further suggestions for you if you'd like some.
You can, if you wish, use more than one theory to critique your chosen work, but you are only required to use one. Research, too, is not necessary, so if there's a particular issue you want to address in detail and would like to bring in scholarly articles, please use only one or two.
In the spirit of community I invite you to post questions or ideas for the paper as you are working on it. Of course, you can email me privately or go to my office hours to ask any questions, request reading recommendations, or discuss drafts.
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