World literature

Throughout the course, you\’re responsible for submitting a reading journal for each unit in which you critically and creatively engage with the assigned readings. Each entry should be at least 300 words. Although these journal submissions are informal, they should still be clearly written, spell-checked, and free of glaring errors. Please review the attached document […]

Both Sundiata and Popol Vuh deal centrally with a heroic quest. Unit 1B\’s introduction to the Five Great Themes of World Literature states with regard to the hero: \”The surest way to understand what a culture of the past most values is to focus on what it considers heroic, in that a culture recognizes its

THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OF MEDEA. Your essay should address the following topic: Apply ONE of the following forms of criticism to your selected reading: Historical Criticism: Analyze how historical events during the author’s lifetime might have impacted and influenced the work Biographical Criticism: Analyze how events specific to the author’s life might have impacted and

Essay question (20 pts.) Choose one of the following three questions and write a short essay response. These responses should be thoughtful and developed should include direct quotations from the text(s) at hand, and should be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs in length.. **For these questions you may consider texts from the first half

Geographical Context/Time Period: slides with clear explanations as to how the context/time period relates to the text(s) itself. For each set of facts you supply, you must provide at least a 100 word analysis as to how it relates to the text. (At least 5 academic sources required.) you will be researching the Salem Witch

I’m including the list of choices for each story to answer, the answers have to be at least 1 page worth and the bonus is a halve page. I’m also going to let you know the questions on here as well. I’m picking choice 1 for the A thousand and one nights story. The question

Discuss how a particular hero Cervantes\’ Don Quixote teaches us something fundamental about achieving greatness in our fallen world. Your answer should be one substantive paragraph. The paragraph must have a clear topic sentence, a summary of your main points, and specific detail with appropriate citations

We’ve spent the last few class days focusing on Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabler. In the play, we see a woman who, faced with little other options, marries a man she does not love and is desperately unhappy in her boring, middle-class life. She has little interest in her husband and is seemingly disgusted by

One of the readings this week, The Metamorphosis, asks that we strongly “suspend disbelief,” as we’re asked to accept that a person might without warning be transformed to have the body of an insect. The details given in this literary work are based on very realistic settings, though. This work thus expresses modernist ideas about

Describe a few characteristics of Renaissance literature presented in our course. Illustrate those characteristics with specific detail from Cervantes\’ Don Quixote. Your answer should be one substantive paragraph. The paragraph must have a clear topic sentence, a summary of your main points, and specific detail with appropriate citations.