Reference no: EM132307283
Assignment: For this essay, you'll compare and evaluate multiple texts. The question your final essay will answer is this: Based on what we've read this semester, what is your personal definition of good (or bad) literature?
To answer that question, you'll have to consider both your favorite readings as well as your least favorite. What are the important similarities and differences? What are the texts' specific merits or flaws? Develop your argument by citing examples from several different texts we've covered. Secondary sources are optional, but they might be helpful in clarifying, illustrating, supporting, or refining certain ideas.
- The good texts are: The Yellow Wallpaper, Wilson: Fences, Hurston: Sweat.
- The bad texts are: Coleridge: Kubla Khan, Mansfield: Miss Brill.
- This essay is more analysis than evaluation. Your job is to explain why a reader might find value in it. Is the message about gender/marriage important? If so, why and to whom? Is that message revealed in an entertaining or poignant way? If so, how? Those are the questions you need to answer. Please keep that in mind for this essay! Your job isn't so much to analyze as evaluate!
Length: 1800 - 2400 words
Format: 12-point font, double-spaced, standard margins.