20th Literature Discussion and Reflection Assignment

The Reflection Assignment and Discussion need be separate word document.1. Reflection Assignment:For this assignment, you will respond to the following prompt:The works of literature you are studying in Weeks 8 and 9 focus on themes of gender and sexual identity. For this assignment, you will connect the theme presented in one work of literature in these weeks to another theme discussed in this course and a work of literature that focuses on that theme. Your assignment should consider these questions in a well developed essay:How do the themes overlap?How do the themes differ?In which work is the theme more complex? Explain why, and support your position with references to the work. Use at least one direct quote.Which work most challenges the reader to see and feel the experiences that the writer is trying to portray? Explain your position, and support your position with references to the work. Use at least one direct quote.In which work does the style of the writing most impact the reader? Why? Explain your position, and support your position with references to the work. Use at least one direct quote.Your assignment should discuss a work by one author you read in Weeks 8 or 9, as well as a work by one author you read in relationship to another of the course?s themes. Other themes from the course include modernism (Weeks 1 and 2), race and ethnicity (Weeks 3 and 4), and war and nationalism (Weeks 6 and 7).As in all of your writing for this course, remember to be original in your writing. Do not simply retell information you learned from course materials.2. Discussion:In addition to submitting your Week 9 Assignment through the assignment dropbox, also post your paper to this discussion board, to share with your peers.Then read or view two of your peers? assignments and post responses that explain how the ideas expressed in their assignments connect to, differ from, or expand your understanding of the themes and works discussed.A goal of this activity is to ensure that all students receive feedback on their assignments. Please choose to read or view assignments that no one else has responded to, unless all assignments have received feedback.
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Literary Terms
Use the Glossary of Literary Terms or other internet resources to define the following
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allusion
biographical criticism
connotation
deconstructionism
ennui
feminism
feminist criticism
framed narrative
gender criticism
irony
open form
personification
symbol
Required Reading: Literature
Sylvia Plath
Read this biographical information and read or listen to the play ?Three Women? (26:30)
Required Viewing: Philosophy
Judith Butler
Watch this video in which Butler discusses how discourse creates homosexuality (1:06)
Reading Options: Literature
Select two writers from this list. For each, read their biographical information and one of
their poems:
1. Gwendolyn Brooks
Read this biographical information and the poem ?a song in the front yard?
2. Amiri Baraka
Read this biographical information and the poem ?An Agony. As Now.?
3. Kazuko Shiraishi
Read this biographical information and the poem ?I Have Never Been Anything Like
Pink?
4. David Lehman
Read this biographical information and the poem ?When a Woman Loves a Man?
5. Anne Sexton
Read this biographical information and the poem ?Her Kind?
6. Adrienne Rich
Read this biographical information and the poem ?Diving into the Wreck”
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