 Eye/I Pledge Allegiance Surveillance, Sexuality & "Sinema" in the Americas Post-1960 |
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Analytical Imagination Challenge (aka, Essay) Numero Uno
--Due Friday, March 8, 2013 by NOON, under my door, Arts and Letters 273. --4-7 pages --typed, 1 inch margins, & no goofy fonts please --double-spaced --avoid regurgitating lecture material --carefully proofread --nifty title --avoid TOO many consecutive passive verb-laden sentences...here's a link to one of my past essay grading rubrics that clearly illustrates what to avoid... --provide "illustrated" quotes, IF the text you are writing about is visual! --insure that your bibliography for this analytical imagination challenge makes use of/integrates/attacks at least TWO (2) secondary critical sources--at least ONE of these must come from the journal PMLA or AMERICAN LITERATURE. You may do this research in the Love Library periodicals room OR online via Project Muse or JSTOR.(Those of you seriously thinking of pursuing graduate school should join MLA as a "Graduate Student Member"...use this link. Respond to ONE of the following prompts: 1. Beyond Eye/I Pledge Allegiance... Using references to specific elements of three works we have studied so far that HAVE NOT BEEN THE FOCUS OF CLASS DISCUSSION, define what you view to be some major trends in post 1950 American Literature/Culture. 2. Eye in the Sky... Using two works we have explored thus far, explore the connection between late 20th century literary history and surveillance. 3. Image is Everything Prompt You are a budding junior semiotician, image critic and all around visual culture junky utterly fascinated with 20th century American Literature. Explore the connection between literature and its sister arts (cinema, photography, painting) as it has unfolded in the first few works this term 4. Writers Can Surprise You Prompt Write an essay that explores what Ira Levin and Toni Morrison share in common? Alternatively, do the same for David Lynch and Walker Percy. 5. Moonlighting Artist, Moonlighting Novelist Can it be proved that reclusive fiction writer Thomas Pynchon and Nobel diva/professor Toni Morrison are adept practitioners of the art of Semiotics? Provide key examples from their work to support your view. 6. You Da' Prof Prompt Devise your own thesis that includes at least 2 of the works we have studied thus far (including THE BLUEST EYE). If you choose this option you MUST email me your proposal by this FRIDAY, March 1 @ noon!!!!!!!!! Or type it out and bring it to class by Tuesday March 5 for me to OK. |
