Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Melville Paper

Your first out-of-class paper of the semester will be over Melville’s short fiction. The topic is up to you…you can do a comparison/contrast of the two stories in terms of theme, narrative voice, prose style, etc., a Freudian analysis of I and My Chimney (Sophie’s World has a good basic discussion of Freud, but you might want to dig a bit deeper), a “historiography” of Bartleby interpretations, or an analysis of one or both stories based on a chapter(s) from HTRLAP. Use MLA format for parenthetical citation and lists of works cited.

I will only collect/grade the final draft of these papers, which are due Friday January 29.

Partners –

MC/NR
LH/JE
CC/CW
EI/GS
PF/EW
AW/Mr. Dalton

You are advised to follow the time-line below:

Tuesday 1/19 – e-mail précis of your paper to me and your partner

Friday 1/22 – First Draft to partner

Wednesday 1/27 – Second Draft to partner

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