Write a paper that analyzes the texts from ANITA LOOS, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
The paper should primarily focus on the texts, but you may bring into the discussion other texts by the author.
Relate the text to the author’s biography. What expereiences from the author’s life influenced the text? How does knowledge about the author’s life affect our understanding of the text or even give us a deeper understanding of what the text says or how it works?
Relate the text to its historical (political, cultural, artistic, or economic) context. What historial events or changes influenced the text? How does this historical knowledge affect our understanding of the text or even give us a deeper understanding of what the text says or how it works?
How does one of the authors “make it new”? Identify and analyze what is innocative in the author’s texts. Show how the text breaks with tradition or literacy predecessors. Or show how the text, while making it new, continues to exhibit features found in previous literature.
Examine the text from a feminist standpoint How does the text represent women and their position in society? Does the text give voice to women and their perspectives? How does the text rely upon or ritiqye masculinity? How do gender norms, or the suversion of them, play a part in the text’s meaning?
Examine the text from an economic standpoint. How does the text refelect or critique changes in the economy? How do changes in the jobs available for individuals or the health of the economy (the roaring twenties or the great depression) influence the way the text works? How does consumption play a signicant role in the text? How does commodification(of art, women) play a significant role in the text? How does a materailsitic desire for money/luxuries play a siginifcant role in the text?
Pick ant theme or formal feature of the author’s work and offer a detailes analysis of it. You could discuss. the author’s style, the representation of time/memory, the representation of subjectivity, gragmentation or disorder in the text’s organization.