I would like the 1-page summary to be the paper’s abstract. You will find the instructions for the paper, as well as the instructions for the abstract, in the bottom of the order description. The literary analysis paper should be based on one of the following books:
—Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. Print. ISBN: 9780395957738
—Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies. Chapel Hill, N.C: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. Print. ISBN: 9781565129764
—Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1940. Print. ISBN: 9780140183955
—Wharton, Edith. Summer. Champaign, Ill: Project Gutenberg, 1990. Internet resource.
Here are the instructions for the paper and the abstract:
Final Paper Abstract
Due Saturday, April 18th
An abstract is a short overview of what your final paper will be about. (Basically a check-in moment.) It is short (between 100- 200 words).
Your abstract should discuss your final literary analysis paper. The abstract should include:
a working thesis statement,
the text, author, and theory you will be writing about,
and a few of your main points.
It should be written in paragraph form and have a working title.
Titles need to be more creative and interesting than “Feminism in ‘Boys and Girls'”. While this does mention what text and theory you are talking about, it gives no direction to what your specific argument is about.
Please read below about the final paper before writing your abstract so you can know what is expected from you.
Final Paper
Due Tuesday, April 28th
Throughout this semester we have discussed many issues affecting humanity. One of the great things about literature is that it connects us to our world(s) in different ways. For your final paper, you will have to consider one of the literary theories we’ve been working with and apply it to a text we have read.
So, officially: write a 5-page literary analysis paper that provides a developed, thesis-driven argument and incorporates one of the literary theories we’ve talked about or read about in Lenses. For this paper you will have to choose one literary text we’ve read this semester, connect it to one of the theories, develop an argument, and support your thesis with evidence from the literature of your choice.
You may want to do some outside research to strengthen and support your argument, but outside research is not mandated in this paper. If you do outside research, please remember this is still an academic paper and wikipedia (etc.) does not count as a scholarly source.
Possible theories we’ve discussed are:
- Feminist Theory
- New Historicism
- Marxist Criticism
- Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
- Regionalism/Local Color (including Insider/Outsider)