Week 4

First discussion The Bloody Chamber

Second discussion Books and Roses

For this essay, you have read two scholarly articles that relate to the creative works we read. In these articles, you have encountered a model for how to write about literary work in a way that posits new perspectives on the work. Consider how you might use this same approach for communicating and substantiating your own insights and increased understanding in your own writing. You have also located quotes in these articles with which you wished to further engage as you kept a reading journal. 

Your assignment here is to bring the creative work (either one or both) into conversation with at least one of these articles (building on the argument and using quotes from the article(s). Bringing into conversation does not mean to compare and contrast or to summarize; it means analyzing alongside the others, bringing them all into dialogue together as you develop your analysis of and ideas on these works comprehensively or all together. You might think about this like the texts all being in the same room together and interacting with each other. 

This assignment is likely to be at least 1500 words in length, not including the quotes you use from at least two of the texts (remember, 1500 words is the minimum, not the maximum; and as always, quotes and long passages should not make up the bulk of your word count!) as you explicate your reasoning and develop a deeper understanding for your reader through your in-depth examination and exploration of these texts. 

Construction Instruction: Use Google Docs to draft, revise, and polish your work. Use the guidelines and helpful tips I provide on the full ADA accessible syllabus for essay construction. Put your name and information at the upper lefthand corner of the page per MLA format. After you have finished writing your essay, create a title that is evocative and informative and specific to YOUR analysis and discovery in the essay. Put any narrative terms from our course into bold per those instructions. Nothing else should be in bold. Put quotes in “quotation marks” and use parenthesis to delineate the text and page number of that text as shown here (“Call of the Cthulhu” 3)