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2. Research Paper Overview

3.  3 – 5 Page Critical Research Paper (Literary Analysis)  Covers one or more of the following works with a minimum of four (4) supporting topics.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  Things Fall Apart  No Exit  Hamlet  A Comparative Analysis of two works from above (Grad Project Option)

4.  MLA Formatted Throughout  Demonstrations consultation of a minimum of four (4) secondary critical resources  Acceptable sources (Library sources)  Databases  Periodicals  Essays  Unacceptable sources  Spark Notes (and the like)  things you “googled”

5.  A book report  Tell me why this work is worthy of your analysis, not what the book is about… Trust me, I’ve read it already… many times.  Something you can write in one night.  Failure to turn in the steps of the paper = I will not accept the paper itself (and may God have mercy on your soul).  Something you download from the internet  Why pay $50 to get a zero?  Your friend’s work  Yes, I check with my colleagues.

6. AssignmentDeadline / DateLocationPoints Thesis Statement 03/05/15Library10 Annotated Bibliography Due (Typed) (Minimum 4 Secondary Sources) 03/11/15Library40 Rough Draft Due (Typed) (Minimum 4 Secondary & 4 Primary Citations) (Works Cited Page) Two Peer Edits (10 points Each) 03/20/15 03/23/15 Library Library 50 20 Total Pre-Write Points = 120 Final Draft Due (TYPED!) 03/26/15127 East250* * 25% of your 3 rd Marking Period Grade

7.  All pre-writing assignments are due on the dates listed.  For each day you submit the pre-writing assignments late, ½ of the total points will be deducted.  Please note: you cannot submit the final draft of this paper without having previously submitted all pre-writing assignments.  This means, even if you have received a zero on your rough draft, for example, you still must submit a rough draft prior to the final draft’s deadline.  Any final draft handed in late will be penalized according to standard classroom policy. I.E., one letter grade will be deducted for each day’s lateness.  Even if you are absent on the due date of the final draft, your paper is still due – there is no lateness.  Computer issues will not be a sufficient reason for missing deadlines.  Failure to submit this paper may result in failure for the 3 rd marking period.

8.  Library Databases  Literature Resource Center  Gale Student Resources  Access Power Library  EBSCO Host  ProQuest Resources  Etc…  Library Catalogue  North  BCCC  Bucks County

9. The following ideas will help you choose a specific focus for your analysis and help you to develop a thesis:  Four elements are involved in the process which produces art:  the artist  the universe which provides the subject for the work of art  the audience or the reader  the work itself, the product of the process

10.  BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM  Examines the writer’s life and makes connections and contrasts between his/her life and the writing. Broader historical studies explore social and intellectual currents that show links between an author’s work and the ideas events, and institutions of that period. The work reflects the events, specific experiences, prejudices, and "truths" of the author’s personal life. Often literature written in the first person is interpreted as autobiographical.

11.  PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM  For Example: The work reflects the psychological state of the artist and is a manifestat­ion of his/her expressed or repressed needs, desires, ambitions, frustrations, etc.

12.  SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM  Marxist - an umbrella term for a number of critical approaches to literature that draw inspiration from the social and economic theories of Karl Marx. Marx maintained that material production, or economics, ultimately determines the course of history, and in turn influences social structures. These social structures, Marx argued, are held in place by the dominant ideology, which serves to reinforce the interests of the ruling class. Marxist criticism approaches literature as a struggle with social realities and ideologies.

13.  SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM (Continued)  Feminist - explores the just and unjust treatment of women as well as the effect of gender on language, reading, and the literary canon; an umbrella term for a number of different critical approaches that seek to distinguish the human experience from the male experience. Feminist critics draw attention to the ways in which patriarchal social structures have marginalized women and male authors have exploited women in their portrayal of them.  Minority - the critic interested in race and ethnic identity explores similar issues, with the focus shifted to a specific cultural group

14.  HISTORICAL CRITICISM  How does the literary work represent the author’s particular time, place, society or culture? Sample typical question: Which 1960s ideals are reflected in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

15.  MORALISTIC/DIDACTIC CRITICISM  Literature reflects (or should reflect) a higher truth, an ethical perspective; it teaches the reader how to live and behave. This approach evaluates works of art in terms of moral, ethical, or political messages that are conveyed. Rooted in religious studies and ethics, this approach explores the moral dilemmas literary works raise.

16. ARCHETYPAL APPROACH:  Archetypal critics or myth critics are strongly influenced by the belief that primitive man is yet within us and that myth, ritual, and poetry – found in the beginnings of every culture – have the power to make us aware of the collective experiences of the race.  The archetypal critic is concerned with enduring patterns and motifs and how they are reflected in literature.  Archetypal criticism examines those events, images, symbols, types that have existed throughout our recorded stories such as “The Hero’s Journey,” the manifestations of the “Mother Goddess,” and many others.

17.  PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH:  Some critics apply psychological theories to literary works by exploring dreams, symbolic associations, and motivation.  In approaching a piece of literature psychologically, we tend to focus on the work of Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung. To survey their work/ideas here would be impossible. Critics employing this approach may apply Freud’s work on the Oedipal Complex, the components of personality (id, ego, superego), sex, or dream analysis or discuss Jung’s collective unconscious in analyzing a work of literature.

18. READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM  The focus is on the “transaction” between the text & reader, who sees the text not as an object to be analyzed but as an experience which is different for each reader. The work is recreated each time by its reader and can only mean what the individual reader or a community of readers brings to bear on its interpreta­ tion. This transaction process will result in an ongoing refinement of meaning, meaning-in-process. There is no interpretation which every reader can share in at any point in the process.

19. PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM  The work is strongly influenced by the philosophy of the author or by a prominent philosophical idea.

20.  LINGUISTIC CRITICISM  Literature is a process of communication. Consequently, we must study the resources of language, the meanings of individual words and their syntactical pat­terns, in order to better understand the communicated message.

21.  FORMALIST CRITICISM  This approach emphasizes the structure of a work and the rules of its genre are crucial to its meaning. It determines how various elements (plot, character, language, etc.) reinforce the meaning & unify the work. Literature is an artful arrangement of language characterized by formal ele­ments which separate it from the language of ordinary (grammatical) or even persua­ sive (rhetorical) discourse. It is necessary to analyze it in terms of how (technique) the language is given shape, how the formal elements result in an aesthetic effect.

22.  FORMALIST CRITICISM (Continued)  Characterization  Plot  Setting  Theme  Style

23.  Select a work  Select a mode of analysis  Research, research, research  Read, highlight, and annotate sources  Develop preliminary Thesis Statement  Compile Annotated Bibliography  Verify a minimum of 4 acceptable secondary critical resources  Draft, Draft, Draft  Revise, Revise, Revise  Peer Edit  Teacher Conference  Publish

24. I will offer instruction throughout the process  Thesis Statement: 03/03/15  Annotated Bibliography: 03/06/15  Converting Annotated Bib to Works Cited: 03/11/15  Introduction: 03/12/15  Body Paragraphs: 03/16/15  Formatting Quotations: 03/17/15  Conclusion: 03/18/15

25.  Pick up a research paper packet  Pick up library resources sheet  You have 4 weeks  Begin TODAY