Paper 2: Literary Critical Analysis

Literary Theory: Employing a Critical Strategy

1,000 – 1,500 words, MLA style

All drafts and work attached including a mandatory writing tutorial as part of the drafting/revision process, and a reflection post final draft. Assignment due dates and LCA Rubric is in the I&M Course Folder.

Assignment due dates:

LITERARY THEORY/CRITICAL STRATEGY, TEXT, PROMPT and OUTLINE Paper 2:Lens/Literary Due during individual tutorial.

DRAFT Paper 2 Due: Lens/Literary Critical Analysis: Due Sunday, November 18^thin the Writing Tutorial

FINAL Paper #2 Due: Lens/Literary Critical Analysis: Due Saturday, November 24^that 10:00pm

ASSIGNMENT:

Readers have debated and critiqued literature from a variety of perspectives. Some have looked at texts from a moral stance, considering how values are represented in a text; others have researched historical periods and author’s biographies and context. Contemporary schools of literary theory examine literature to see what the text might be saying about our lives in society, our political or power relations, gender roles, or sexuality. These schools of thought influence how scholars write about literature.

Writing Prompt:

Now, you must engage in the process of understanding literary theory and schools of criticism and how they are used when applied to literature. Choose one short story from the course readings and consider how you wish to interpret the text based on certain assumptions under a particular school of theory. The different lenses will allow you to find a “new” reading of the text and focus on particular aspects of a work you consider important.

How is the short story you have chosen a look into a fictional example of life and its reality in a different or symbolic wayto bind human identityto society, culture and people?