Thursday, April 8, 2010
Step 1 for the final paper
For this, our final paper I will be discussing the relationhsip between Dark Romanticism and the Gothic genre. For the Gothic aspect I will be using Edgar Huntly and for the Dark Romanticism of course I will use Poe's Ligeia. Now thats not say that Ploidori is strictly out of the question, I just haven't decided yet as to whether or not I will need to go into it that far. Also if time allows and I can make it work I would like to discuss some early gothic paintings that we have discussed in class using but not limited to Rossitti. I want to find out if indeed the two genre's are related in some manner. By using the class readings and other research material I should be able to answer the question, Are They Related? The reason that I have chosen the above mentioned genre is that they are of intrest to me and would like to find out more about them.
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Well, yes, the genres are related, as we've hashed out in class. For this assignment, you have to focus on something very, very specific -- have a narrowly-defined topic that is _not_ a compare-and-contrast report -- and then find secondary material to support your argument. There's not a lot here for me to go on to be of much help to lead you toward the extended proposal and annotated bibliography due next. If you do another draft of this proposal before Friday's assignment is due, let me know so I can look at it again.
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