For your final essay, I want you to choose a text—any text—to analyze or critique using one or more of the critical styles we’ve been discussing throughout the semester. The text may be a novel, a play, a graphic novel, a movie, a television series (even an animated series), or an album (the lyrics). Writing an 8-10 page research paper according to MLA guidelines, you should identify a particular theme and demonstrate how the narrative elements we’ve discussed (characterization, setting, internal and external conflict, and imagery) symbolize or represent that theme throughout that text.
For visual mediums (movies, television series) your choice of a critical style should inform your discussion of how the aforementioned structural elements are presented on the screen. In other words, how do relevant scenes from the film/etc symbolize the point you’re making with your thesis? How does the director make this point with images–“moving pictures”–as well as dialogue? You might recall that this is why we took two days to analyze paintings and how they related to scenes from a music video. For those analyzing albums, your focus should be the lyrics, of course. According to a particular critical style, you’ll be looking at a common theme shared by all the songs on that album. Fortunately for some and unfortunately for others, this will likely make more sense with older albums.
For those analyzing novels or plays, your emphasis will be on how the structural elements are conveyed through the author’s use of words—the typical stuff. This is what we’ve done all semester. Again, your proposal should explain what text you intend to analyze and some specific suggestions on how you might go about doing so. No, you don’t have to have a thesis right now. However, you do need to point out different ideas you have for possible theses. Your annotated bibliography should demonstrate that you’ve been able to find at least five scholarly or professional sources for information that can help you make your argument about this text.
For visual mediums (movies, television series) your choice of a critical style should inform your discussion of how the aforementioned structural elements are presented on the screen. In other words, how do relevant scenes from the film/etc symbolize the point you’re making with your thesis? How does the director make this point with images–“moving pictures”–as well as dialogue? You might recall that this is why we took two days to analyze paintings and how they related to scenes from a music video. For those analyzing albums, your focus should be the lyrics, of course. According to a particular critical style, you’ll be looking at a common theme shared by all the songs on that album. Fortunately for some and unfortunately for others, this will likely make more sense with older albums.
For those analyzing novels or plays, your emphasis will be on how the structural elements are conveyed through the author’s use of words—the typical stuff. This is what we’ve done all semester. Again, your proposal should explain what text you intend to analyze and some specific suggestions on how you might go about doing so. No, you don’t have to have a thesis right now. However, you do need to point out different ideas you have for possible theses. Your annotated bibliography should demonstrate that you’ve been able to find at least five scholarly or professional sources for information that can help you make your argument about this text.
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