Research Paper: Initial Step
This weekend, I need to hear/write down/briefly discuss with all of you (those that submitted their summer readings and those that didn't) the QUESTION you are going to wrestle with for your longer research paper. These cyber meetings can be as brief as possible (you might use this forum to let me know if you prefer it that way), as long as you have something to tell me.
My task is to help you read/build up the paper's bibliography.
So. Let's work. It can be both useful/utalitarian and seemly.
posted by belag @ Wednesday, October 10, 2007
17 Comments:
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research - Wilson Mizner
Or at least that's what comes to mind ;-)
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read - Winston Churchill
;-) just be careful hehe.
i do appreciate the comments and enthusiasm...but need to hear/see the research question...soon
I would like to form my research paper as an elaborated reply to the following question:
"Did the spirit of the lost generation people end with modernism?"
...thoughts?
lyotard...he might work...'the postmodern condition', a tough read but you can handle it...
not really...but if you like antonia, as a character, and 'my antonia' as a novel, and have something to say about brett, then there is another topic to think about - 'women at work and women at play': what sets them apart? in many respects antonia and brett are contemporaries; so were hemingway and will cather, and yet they created two distinct female voices...
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How does the outlawing of individual freedom as an existentialist principle foreshadow the "downfall" of the protagonist, in Camus's "The Stranger" and Kafka's "Metamorphosis"?
excellent topic: the key segment to look at is language; but also beware this segment, since we read both of these works in translation.
like the topic, will bring you on wednesday some materials to consider for your bibliography
The differnet (black)family types in the two works, "The Bluest Eye" and "A Raisin In The Sun". Also I'll look at the history of (black)family types and how that has possibly influenced the family types in the two works? Anything else, suggestions?
excellent. foor your sources, you are welcomed to look at bell hooks', the excerpts from her book as well as the article I copied for you from the whiteness collection.
I want to write on something like "The historical background in 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway". But I'm not sure if it is a good topic...I wnat to include the war and the romana clef but I'm not sure if I'm going to have enough informations and sources. Another work is 'Catch-22' but I can't figure out a possible topic...
Ok - if you want to stick with Hemingway, you need to change topics. See if you can look for a less over-done issue about the novel; something perhaps to do with its form (structure)?
If you want to switch camps, and look at Catch-22, you can write about use of irony, the creation of grotestque characters and situations, again, the format - how much the novel is a war novel, how much is it an anti-war novel - or maybe compare Yossarian and Billy Pilgrim, and American post-war masculinity?
Ok - if you want to stick with Hemingway, you need to change topics. See if you can look for a less over-done issue about the novel; something perhaps to do with its form (structure)?
If you want to switch camps, and look at Catch-22, you can write about use of irony, the creation of grotestque characters and situations, again, the format - how much the novel is a war novel, how much is it an anti-war novel - or maybe compare Yossarian and Billy Pilgrim, and American post-war masculinity?
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How is death represented as a character in the novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo?
How is that?
good
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