Assignment Description
The documented essay gives you the chance to explore in-depth, and present with, confidence, an inspired, elegant, and spirited argument about a topic you research related to either a fiction writer or a poet from our book whose work impresses you most, by marshalling the writers primary work and two scholarly resources to support your ideas, using proper MLA citations, and a Works Cited.
Your essay must be on a different author/literary work from any previous essays you’ve written on in the course. Each paper you write for the course must be on a different author/literary work.
Please do not give an account of the author’s life or a biography of their life story. Instead–
The essay should reveal and discover why the writer shows literary merit and excellence by presenting clear and meaningful interpretations from the research and the literary work. The paper should explore how a specific and relevant context (artistic elements of form, social, cultural, historical, political, psychological, religious, milieus, situations, circumstances, etc.) informs the writers work to help the reader better understand, and better experience, or at least imagine, and appreciate the underlying meanings and connections between the writer and the literature. Take care that you don’t produce a report or mere regurgitation of facts found in research.
You may find chapter 45 particularly useful for the short descriptions of critical literary approaches that could help to shape your argument: historical, psychological, mythological, sociological, gender, cultural, or deconstructionist. Understand the chapter gives general descriptions of the literary theories and as any theory goes, the theory you may think initially works, may not turn out to work best after you begin researching. Be flexible and consider the approaches as frameworks to help direct your thoughts about the writer and his/her work, as you start researching. Perhaps you may want to utilize a perspective to guide your preliminary research to see if scholars discuss your author and work within a perspective; if you find one approach does not work, simply switch to another angle if you notice sources emphasize your author and work within another context. Knowing these contexts and theories exist also helps you understand references to the language scholars often use in their criticism so you gain a fluency with their discourse.
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