Choose From the following books:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Bone People by: Keri Hulme
Beathe, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
OR: on one of the following articles:
- Eleanor Catton – “On Literature and Elitism”
- Shelley Bridgeman – “No Sex Please, We’re Asexuals”
Format: (3 – 5 full pages [not including Works Cited page, MLA format, 1-inch margins all around, Times New Roman size 12, no sources beyond primary text required)
the response paper must be a minimum of three full pages, but there is no maximum length; three to five pages is merely a guideline. These papers will take the form of you creating an argument or exploring an idea outlined above.You will essentially come up with a thesis or clear idea that you wish to explore in one or more of the texts, and the response paper will involve you proving that argument or performing an in-depth reflection on the theme or idea you have chosen to investigate. Because of this, there are many, many suitable ways to complete these response papers.
Response Paper 2 can be on any text after the midterm. You are free to mention or compare/contrast texts in either paper that come before or after the midterm (for example, you could do a comparison/contrast paper on The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was assigned before the midterm, and Heart of Darkness, which was assigned after the midterm), but you must have as your focus a text from the proper point in the syllabus for whichever paper you are working on. Both papers may be submitted at any time before their official due dates.
These are shorter papers than what I am looking for in the critical analysis paper, and you are therefore allowed to be more reflective and more informal than in the critical research paper. In addition, the response papers do not require any sources beyond the text or texts you are writing about (that text, the primary text, must of course be cited in the Works Cited page). However, if you would like to include outside sources, you are allowed to.
Think of these papers, basically, as lite (or lighter, anyway) versions of the critical analysis paper.
Here are some sample ways of doing this paper:
• A simple and short argument paper: you make a claim and use evidence from the text to prove said claim. Is there a recurring image or theme in a text you’ve noticed? Is there something you’ve noticed about how a text is written/narrated that you think influences how we should read it? Does a story connect particularly well to a literary movement?
• A comparison/contrast between two texts that you think show some strong connections (as opposed, of course, to any two random texts). For instance, is it possible to find connections between two texts that might, on their surface, seem unrelated but that, on closer inspection, have some powerful thematic or influence-based (i.e., one author can be shown to have been influenced by an earlier text from our course) link? Is there something in Carmilla, for instance, that relates to The Bone People or Heart of Darkness?
• An exploration of how an idea we have explored in the course applies to a specific text—for instance, Orientalism in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Othering in “This Dance,” nationalism in a novel from the course, etc.
• A short personal essay on a text that you felt a strong connection to because of your cultural or ethnic background and how the text resonated with you. This is perhaps the most reflective, personal, and informal version of this paper that you can do—this is you responding to a text.
Budget: $40
Posted On: December 03, 2014 00:02 UTC
ID: 204860432
Category: Writing & Translation > Creative Writing
Skills: Array
Country: United States
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