Welcome to English 10: Introduction to Literary Theory or “The Monster in the Mirror” from summer session A, 2014. Formally, this class is an introduction to literature and how we, as scholars, read it. Thematically, this class addresses figures of…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Final Exam Information
The final exam for this course will be on Thursday, July 31st, the last day of class. We will have a review session on Wednesday, July 30th during class. Here is the format for the final exam: Style: Blue Book…
Frankenstein Context Quotes
Attached to this post is the handout with the four quotations that we used to contextualize Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Romantic Context for Frankenstein The quotes (in order) come from: Edmund Burke’s On the Sublime Percy Shelley’s “Mont Blanc” Percy Shelley’s “A Defence of…
Final Essay Assignment
Due: Tuesday, July 29th by 11:00am (the start of class) via email To download a PDF of the assignment, click here: Final Paper Assignment. For this assignment, you will write a 5-7 page comparative essay about two different texts, one of…
Some Resources for Research
To be updated as time goes by and I see fit. There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of research you can do for an English paper. The first kind is preliminary research. This is the kind of research you do…
