1) No; the romantics are not biologists – they do not advocate for anyone to “study” nature; what source are you relying to on this idea? Rethink please. 2) The role of nature is important, but its role is quite different than some may assume – 3) RETHING YOUR INTRODUCTION – IT SEEMS THAT YOU […]
Category Archives: Literature
Choose a text (or several texts) that try to deal with an event or a process from Russian history. How does this or that author approach the chosen subject? What tools does he/she use to tell the story?
uring this semester we discussed a lot of texts and social contexts that they were written in or issues they were dedicated to. Your task is to choose a text (or several texts) that try to deal with an event or a process from Russian history. How does this or that author approach the chosen […]
How does the relationship between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan in Calvino’s Invisible Cities shed light on the relationship between the storyteller, the text, and the reader or listener? How do we find ourselves reflected as readers in this text itself?Discuss
How does the relationship between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan in Calvino’s Invisible Cities shed light on the relationship between the storyteller, the text, and the reader or listener? How do we find ourselves reflected as readers in this text itself? Make sure you refer to passages that form part of the intricate, repeated patterns […]
Do you agree with most readers that these eccentricities are actually among the poems’ greatest qualities? How does her eccentricity affect your reading of her poems? How does it invite you to engage with her ideas and her themes in a way that a more conventional form would not?Discuss
A word often associated with Emily Dickinson is “eccentric.” As we’ve learned, she almost never left her home for the last twenty years of her life. She attended her father’s funeral while hiding in her bedroom with the door cracked open so she could hear. She was known in her neighborhood as the “Woman in […]
Discuss In Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man,” what is Mrs. Pike’s attitude toward Mr. Petrie? How do she and Leota respond to the realization that he is a rapist? What does their response tell us about them?
1. In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, what are the tensions between Stanley and Blanche? There are, obviously, tensions from the start. What are these? Consider the following: their backgrounds, their values, their perceptions of each other, their relationship with Stella, their expressions of sexuality, their cramped living conditions, etc. 2. In A Streetcar […]
Discuss the concept of Patriarchy and male dominance in A rose for Emily and Hills like White Elephants and how that shapes the two characters Jig(Hills like White Elephants) and Miss Emily (A rose for Emily). Also, bring in how that concept works in with the works of the lost generation.
A critical paper regarding the concept of Patriarchy and male dominance in A rose for Emily and Hills like White Elephants and how that shapes the two characters Jig(Hills like White Elephants) and Miss Emily (A rose for Emily). Also, bring in how that concept works in with the works of the lost generation.
Discuss the ways in which the novel produces the critique of capitalism.
Investigation of the ways in which the novel produces the critique of capitalism.
Choose a favourite poem/play/or prose work, or just a work that interests you in some way, from any historical period. Learn as much as you can about its publication, dissemination, reception, or other topics of the type we have studied in this course. (For example, a nineteenth-century novel might have been first published as a three-decker). Does this information about the material life of your work add to a scholarly analysis of its content? If so, in which ways? What does a book historical analysis offer to a student of literature, history, or culture
Description “Choose a favourite poem/play/or prose work, or just a work that interests you in some way, from any historical period. Learn as much as you can about its publication, dissemination, reception, or other topics of the type we have studied in this course. (For example, a nineteenth-century novel might have been first published as […]
“He [Connell] brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.” (Rooney 2018, p.266) Do you agree with Marianne?Discuss
Description The main Question: At the conclusion of Normal People, Marianne reflects that: “He [Connell] brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really […]
Discuss in chapter 3, Mouret whispers to the Baron, “get the women and you’ll the world” (p. 49). What does he mean really?
Zola’s novel Ladies’ Paradise presents you with a familiar landscape: Baudelaire’s Paris which we along with Ladies’ Paradise. As it happens, it was during that time that a great part of Notre-Dame, which was engulfed in flames last year, was reconstructed. The first three chapters of the novel (this week’s required reading) present you with three consecutive angles: […]
