Avoiding Plagiarism (YouTube video)

Length/Format: 5-10 pages; typed; double-spaced; MLA or Chicago/Turabian.

Research: Your paper must include at least one of the articles you researched for your Annotated Bibliography.

Writing Prompt: Choosing two or more texts that we have studied this semester, compare and contrast those texts in terms of their cultural or historical impact and their reflection of universal human values or experiences.

Writing the Prompt  Paper: OWL Resource

Writing about World Literature: OWL Resource

Suggested Approaches to the Writing Prompt:

• Analyze Satire by comparing and contrasting Pope’s mock-epic poem “Rape of the Lock” and Swift’s essay “A Modest Proposal.”

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*

   

• Explore Narrative Poetry by comparing and contrasting two or more of these poems:

  • Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”

  • Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

  • Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*

   

• Examine Feminist Literature and Theory by comparing and contrasting two or more of these texts:

  • Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”

  • Stanton’s and Anthony’s “Declaration of Sentiments”

  • de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

  • Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*

   

• Compare and contrast narrative techniques and stylistic/thematic differences in Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades” (A Russian short story) and Molière’s Tartuffe (a French play).

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*

   

• Compare and contrast the critiques of Russian society found in Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground and  Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*

   

• Compare and contrast elements of self, identity, and existential angst in Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground and the film Fight Club.

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*

   

• Examine the concept and characterization of the anti-hero by comparing and contrasting two or more of these texts:

  • Joyce’s “The Dead”

  • Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

  • Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground

  • Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*

   

• Compare and contrast elements of German Expressionism found in the film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” and Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

  *Remember that your paper should answer these two questions: What is the cultural or historical impact of these poems, and what universal human values or experiences do the portray?*