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Submit the rough draft of your World Lit Project for instructor review. Include your Thesis Statement and Outline at the end of your paper.
Reminder 1
Remember to proofread your paper both for grammatical errors and for clarity. Don’t underestimate the importance of this stage! You may have researched very thoroughly and come up with some interesting ideas about your topic, but all that work is wasted if you fail to communicate them clearly. A good guide to follow is that if something you’ve written sounds even a little awkward to you, it will be even more difficult for someone else to understand. You may have to rewrite a passage several time before it’s finally clear.
Reminder 2
Take one more look at the grading standards for your paper on the Rubric for Your World Lit Project
Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.doc” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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****Please submit your World Lit Project thesis and outline for feedback and final approval. Review the detailed instructions from Week 03.
Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.doc” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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Last week you selected your topic and began the process of narrowing it so your thesis would have the focus you need to direct your outline. This week, through continued research and sketching out your ideas and supporting evidence, you complete the process of narrowing your topic. This will enable you to refine your thesis and build your outline. For more details on writing your thesis and outline, see the Guidelines for Your Thesis and Outline page in the Course Materials folder. There is nothing to submit this week. Your thesis and outline are due in Week 04. So, this is another working week – work hard to stay ahead. |
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1. Writing about the past. Marcel Proust, Bessie Head, and Leslie Marmon Silko are all in one way or another writing about the past, or with the past in mind. How do each of these authors gain access to information about the past? What influence does the past have on each of their literary works? In what ways are these works similar with regard to treatment of the past? In what ways are they different? Do you feel that the past had an influence on any of these authors in their ability to be creative? Explain. 2. A reality check. Much of modernist literature challenges a typical view of reality – a view that is said to be obtained by a sense of objectivity. In the stories by Franz Kafka and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and in the descriptions given in Andre Breton’s poem, what does the real world look like? In what ways is the world they describe different from the world you live in? In what ways is it similar? What motivates these writers to represent a world that is so different from the one we experience? Explain. 3. Going to the Theater. In the three plays you read (Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, and Samuel Beckett), the subject matter had a moral and ethical content (though Beckett might have been talking about the complete lack thereof). What were each of these dramatist’s methods for portraying moral and ethical issues? What are the similarities and differences between these methods? Which method was most effective? Explain. Would you agree or disagree that the stage is better suited than a work of fiction for portraying moral and ethical issues? Explain. 4. Who am I? Many of the works of literature you’ve read portray an individual on the horns of a dilemma. Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), Bertolt Brecht, and Leslie Marmon Silko show characters struggling to make very difficult choices. What is the nature of these choices? What are some of the artistic means used by these authors to portray the fact that the character is facing a difficult dilemma? Taking these three works together, is there a common message about the self in the modern world? Explain. With regard to the individual (or self), are these works an example of modernist literature? Explain. Steps to Narrow Your Topic Step 1 As you read over the questions that are raised for each of the above topics, you should attempt to answer them. You will find that some are factual questions that can be answered by looking at the primary source (i.e. the original work of literature under study). It is a good idea to write down where in the literary work (page, paragraph) you find these answers because you will probably need to cite them later in your paper. Other, more critical, questions will require you to draw your own conclusion. These questions will require research that you can once again cite in your paper later in order to support the conclusion you draw. Begin thinking about your thesis statement. A thesis statement should be reduced to a single sentence that reflects the research you have done on the topic. Then begin to rough out a tentative outline. Examine the findings from your research and try to arrange them in such a way that best makes your case. It is typical to have done more research than you need to make your point. You should be discriminating with your research and use only what you need. It may be a good idea initially to select more than one topic from the list, and then dive into your background reading and research. You might find that you are more comfortable with one topic than another after you have begun to do a little research. On the other hand, sometimes it’s possible to know right away what you want to write about! Note that if you want to adjust or add to this list of topics, you must receive approval from your instructor. Note: There is nothing to turn in this week, but you need to get started! |
# 5: Explore the dystopian vision in modern literature: What was the dystopian vision of humanity’s future? Dystopian literature can be seen in many science fiction novels of the 20th century as man moved into the technological age. Many feared the industrial revolution would erode man’s highest ideals and man would be ruled by the machines he created. In reading and comparing works like George Orwell’s 1984 and other modern novelists like Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, we are shown visions of a future where corporations run the world and survival depends on adhering to “Big Brother’s” decrees on what is acceptable. How do relate our society with these visions of the dystopian author’s view of what the 21st century would be like? Discuss dystopian literature and at least 1 author from the following list that published significant novels in this genre.
George Orwell: 1984
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
Ray Bradbury: Farenheit 451
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
Richard Bachman: The Running Man
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Any of the newly published series, like Divergent, Hunger Games, The Giver, etc. are also Dystopian fiction and are acceptable.
Email me if you have other novels you would like to or have read previously and write about for this project and once you get written approval, you may start on your dystopian project. For the ones above, no pre-approval needed.
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