English Essay -Modernism

English Essay -Modernism Order Description Choose from the followin" rel="nofollow">ing essay suggestions. You may create your own topic, with approval, if you consult me before 17 July. You must use secondary sources appropriate to your topic in" rel="nofollow">in both focus and quantity. Your paper should demonstrate a grasp of both the primary text(s) you choose to write on and the critical materials available. This means that you must show an understandin" rel="nofollow">ing of the reliability of critical materials, how to fin" rel="nofollow">ind scholarly criticism, and an ability to judge whether a work is dated or current. While some topics will have more or less critical materials available than others, I advise a 3–4 sources min" rel="nofollow">inimum. You may wish to consider biographical materials, letters, prin" rel="nofollow">int history, journals, or other such sources as well. 1.Many of the works we have studied this term derive from a cultural context where social imbalances are reflected in" rel="nofollow">in the texts (ie: class, race, colonialism, etcetera). Consider one or more texts (that you have not previously written on) by takin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">into account how they respond to their cultural and historical circumstances. 2.Several of the authors we have studied seem to be in" rel="nofollow">inspired by or in" rel="nofollow">interested in" rel="nofollow">in each other’s work. Consider two or more authors’ relationships (personal or purely literary) and how they can in" rel="nofollow">inform their writin" rel="nofollow">ings. Is it a mutual in" rel="nofollow">influence? Does a later author alter the way we read an earlier one? Try to consider as many levels in" rel="nofollow">in the texts as possible, such as allusions, style, settin" rel="nofollow">ing, themes, argumentative purposes, or even related texts and biographical in" rel="nofollow">information. 3.Eliot’s poetry is both “traditional” and “new,” in" rel="nofollow">in both in" rel="nofollow">instances largely in" rel="nofollow">in connection with its use of allusion. Consider how allusion functions in" rel="nofollow">in The Waste Land. Does it connect the poem to a long literary tradition or does it mark a rupture from tradition that coin" rel="nofollow">incides with Modernism? You might choose to focus on the role of a particular allusion in" rel="nofollow">in the poem, such as Eliot’s references to Shakespeare or Ovid. 4.Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Woolf's Jacob's Room, and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray all shows significant in" rel="nofollow">interests in" rel="nofollow">in form and style (as distin" rel="nofollow">inct from social or thematic concerns). To what degree can Jacob's Room appear as an answer or rebuttal to A Portrait of the Artist or Portrait as an answer or rebuttal to Dorian Gray? 5.Texts as stylistically and politically distin" rel="nofollow">inct as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Woolf's Jacob's Room are still considered modernist and hence part of a shared aesthetic tradition. Please discuss any two or more texts from this term as either contiguous works in" rel="nofollow">in a common movement or as disjunctions in" rel="nofollow">in contested practices. Based on such a comparison, what in" rel="nofollow">information emerges with regard to modernist literature in" rel="nofollow">in general? https://www.modjourn.org/