Write an analysis of one of the novels (Silas Marner, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole and The Picture of Dorian Gray, or Dracula). Define a specific theme and present a focused thesis regarding that theme.

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Theme

Your final paper will be an analysis of one of the novels (Silas Marner, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole and The Picture of Dorian Gray, or Dracula).

Your paper should define a specific theme and present a focused thesis regarding that theme. The more focused your paper is on a specific aspect of the novel, the more in-depth your analysis will be.

At least two secondary sources are required. These can be either academic essays that you find using online databases or secondary texts we have read and discussed in class. But they must be academic sources (not popular press, un-peer reviewed websites or publications). If you are at all unsure about what qualifies as an academic source, please ask.

Your paper will use MLA formatting. This applies to in-text citations, works-cited page, quotation integration, etc. For MLA formatting guidelines, refer to an up-to-date MLA Handbook, or visit Purdue University’s OWL MLA website (google “OWL MLA”).

Compose a Reader-Response analysis of “Since There’s No Help,” by Michael Drayton (p. 98). Use the appropriate vocabulary suggested for this critical theory.

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Compose a reader-response analysis

Compose a Reader-Response analysis of “Since There’s No Help,” by Michael Drayton (p. 98). Use the appropriate vocabulary suggested for this critical theory. You must use excerpts from the text and appropriate theoretical critics to support your claims. In order to prepare for this assignment, it is suggested that you answer the “Questions” at the end of your chosen poem.

How is the caption an example of a Deconstructionist perspective? Explain how you would critique this cartoon using Deconstruction.

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Deconstructing Cartoon

Lynn attempts to explain Deconstructionist theory in the following fashion: “If we choose to say one thing, we are leaving out another thing. And there is always a gap, a space in the text, that the reader cannot ultimately fill in” (2018, p. 114). Use this statement to analyze the cartoon on p. 113. How is the caption an example of a Deconstructionist perspective? Explain how you would critique this cartoon using Deconstruction. Support your assertions with clear reasoning and examples

What is rhetoric? How does the comparison to rhetoric help illuminate the reader-response perspective and how it diverges from New Criticism? Do you find this explanation of reader-response helps you understand the theory better? Or does it add to the complexity of the mode for you?

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Reader-Response and Rhetorical Tradition

Lynn explains on page 78 that reader-response criticism is closely related to the study of rhetoric (2018). What is rhetoric? How does the comparison to rhetoric help illuminate the reader-response perspective and how it diverges from New Criticism? Do you find this explanation of reader-response helps you understand the theory better? Or does it add to the complexity of the mode for you?

Explain how New Criticism works to find meaning in a text by exposing the work’s unity (Lynn, 2018, p. 22). In Chapter 3, is Lynn effective at showing unity in “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks? How and why?

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New Criticism

Explain how New Criticism works to find meaning in a text by exposing the work’s unity (Lynn, 2018, p. 22). In Chapter 3, is Lynn effective at showing unity in “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks? How and why? Support your assertions with clear reasoning and examples.

Read Todorov’s chapter on ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’ and using this distinction between ‘the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’ analyse the narrative strategies which are at work in any two of the books studied.

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Crime Fiction since 1920

Assignment Question:

In classic crime fiction, argues Tzvetan Todorov, there are ‘not one but two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’. Read Todorov’s chapter on ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’ and using this distinction between ‘the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’ analyse the narrative strategies which are at work in any two of the books studied.

Two books to write on:
– Agatha Christie, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (1934)
– Kate Atkinson, ‘Case Histories’ (2004)

 

Analyze the connection between the monster of the vampire and how it exists in its particular society whether its Transylvania, London or Santa Clara, Calfornia. Evaluate each of the texts to determine their Gothic elements. Compare the novel dracula and the movie the lost boys.

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Literary Analysis Essay For Dracula

Analyze the connection between the monster of the vampire and how it exists in its particular society whether its Transylvania, London or Santa Clara, Calfornia. Evaluate each of the texts to determine their Gothic elements. Compare the novel dracula and the movie the lost boys.

Select at least one example each from the Tamil and Sanskrit lyrics. Write a journal entry comparing the poems you’ve selected, focusing specifically on what is distinctive about each tradition, and how your selections do or do not reflect those characteristics.

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Tamil and Sanskirt

1. Make a quick chart that lays out the distinct qualities of Tamil and Sanskirt lyrics.

2. Select at least one example each from the Tamil and Sanskrit lyrics. Then, write a journal entry comparing the poems you’ve selected, focusing specifically on what is distinctive about each tradition, and how your selections do or do not reflect those characteristics.

Use the following Poems

What he said

Her arms have the beauty

Of a gently moving bamboo.

Her large eyes are full of peace.

She is faraway,

Her place not easy to reach.

My heart is frantic

With haste,

A plowman with a single plow

on land all wet

and ready for seed. (Ōrērullavanār 979)

As the sun rises and sets

As the sun rises and sets,

Comes and goes,

Life is whittling away day by day,

Engrossed in business,

Weighed down by many tasks,

We don’t know

how time passes,

we witness birth, old age,

misfortune, and death

but they leave us

unshaken.

The world has taken leave of its senses,

drunk on the heady wine

of worldliness

and the gratification

of the senses. (The classical Sanskrit lyric 1060, 1061)

What important facts did you learn?  What helpful details did you pull from each video?  If it’s a short or comical link, what amused you and why? 

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Week 8 Links Assignment Details

We have six videos to view/listen to, review and react to in this assignment:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhGoIdKgfU0 (A 16-minute video about poet George Herbert. Note 4 DETAILED things about his family; where Herbert grew up, lived and worked, and his approach to his own poetry)
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GtrzTNgQSg (Letter 23 of The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Topic is Corrupting faith by constructing an ‘historical Jesus’).
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xdAHGOoQn4 (Poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning). Helpful detailed analysis – START with this before re-readding and commenting on the poem on your own.)
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wez7s4CUiO4 (Analysis of words, lines and ideas in the poem Ozymandias by Percy Byshe Shelley)
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWPwryU6feo (Poet Claude McKay’s life. He is the author of poem called America – attached)
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=164WbUClpC4 (Ozymandias poem illustrated with video)

Comment on each link above by title, with 2-3 or more concrete details from all 6 links. This includes 4 or more points about Herbert’s biography which is in video 1 above.

In general, remember the following for all 6 links above: provide 2-3 reactions or comments to lessons learned and facts or insights they provide -– here our learning target focuses on content.  What important facts did you learn?  What helpful details did you pull from each video?  If it’s a short or comical link, what amused you and why? Focus on your interpretation, not what goes on, but what you think and why.

 

Use your original words and ideas throughout. Do not use any references or previous essays. The prof uses plagiarism software such as Turn It In.

 

 

 

 

Select at least one example each from the Tamil and Sanskrit lyrics, then write a journal entry comparing the poems you’ve selected, focusing specifically on what is distinctive about each tradition, and how your selections do or do not reflect those characteristics.

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Tamil and Sanskirt

1. Make a quick chart that lays out the distinct qualities of Tamil and Sanskirt lyrics.

2. Select at least one example each from the Tamil and Sanskrit lyrics. Then, write a journal entry comparing the poems you’ve selected, focusing specifically on what is distinctive about each tradition, and how your selections do or do not reflect those characteristics.