Analyze the significance of Mangan’s sister in James Joyce’s “Araby,”
Order Description
Assignment: Write a 1,000-1,100-word research paper on ONE of the following topics. This assignment is designed as an exercise both in critical reading of the literature studied this term AND in engaging with pertinent scholarship on that literature. Thus your essays should demonstrate some familiarity with other criticism of the text you choose to examine. To that end, you are expected to incorporate and cite evidence not only from the primary literary text under consideration, but also from at least two (2) additional scholarly secondary sources (books in the library, articles published in scholarly journals, etc.) . Note that the word limits are firm ones.

While the topics below direct your attention to certain elements of these texts, be sure that your paper sets forth a clear argument of its own concerning your chosen topic and that you cite the text in support of the claims you wish to make. Documentation of quotations both from the literary text itself and from secondary materials should follow MLA style guidelines, and your completed paper must therefore include a list of Works Cited.

The topics below are quite general, and are intended to provoke thought and to help guide you towards your own specific argumentative claim. Do not attempt to address all of the sub-questions indicated below under your selected topic; rather, consider these food for thought, and look for a specific problem associated with the suggested topic, developing that as the central argument of your essay.

— T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” begins with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno which, according to the note in our Broadview anthology, comments on the impossibility of one’s return from death to life—“If I thought that my reply were given to anyone who might return to the world, this flame would stand forever still; but since never from this deep place has anyone ever returned alive, if what I hear is true, without fear of infamy I answer thee” (1079n). In what ways might Prufrock be representative of death or the underworld? How is the poem as a whole affected by the fact that, as the epigraph suggests, Prufrock’s words are only uttered in the first place because there is no possibility that he can “return to life from death”? In what specific ways does this relatively pessimistic assumption, which the epigraph introduces, affect our reading of the poem in general?

— Write an essay in which you analyze the significance of Mangan’s sister in James Joyce’s “Araby,” with reference to at least two (2) secondary sources on Joyce’s story. How does the narrator represent her, and what is her significance in the life and imagination of the narrator? How does the narrator develop and change throughout the story in response to this figure and his infatuation with her, and what are we to make of his change and development as a central thematic concern of the story in general?

It is highly recommended that you review the information you received in your library visit earlier this term, and re-familiarize yourself with the use of the library catalogue system, databases, and so on. Remember, though, that any sources you use to contextualize and defend your argument must be scholarly in nature (no newspaper articles, websites, and other such sources as you may have used in your current-affairs research for the persuasive essay).

Format

– Double-spaced, all pages except the first numbered in the top-right corner

– 12-point Times New Roman font, 1” margins

– Include your name, student number, class number and section, instructor’s name, and the date at the top of your first page

Grading Emphases:

– understanding of genre (analysis, argument, research)

– clear assertion of conflict in opening move

– analysis/interpretation/resolution which comments on the meaning of the text as a whole

– use of both primary (the literary text) and secondary (the scholarly articles and books you find in your research) textual evidence

– proper citation and integration of quotations (MLA standard)

– understanding of academic audience

Comma splices, misused semicolons, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, apostrophe errors, and all spelling errors penalized at –1 each. Proofread your work carefully prior to submission.

Note:

For this assignment, you MUST submit a Works Cited list that contains the entry in the Broadview anthology that you are referring to as well as all secondary sources, and you MUST cite your quoted evidence from the text completely, accurately, and according to MLA format.

Analyze the significance of Mangan’s sister in James Joyce’s “Araby,”
Order Description
Assignment: Write a 1,000-1,100-word research paper on ONE of the following topics. This assignment is designed as an exercise both in critical reading of the literature studied this term AND in engaging with pertinent scholarship on that literature. Thus your essays should demonstrate some familiarity with other criticism of the text you choose to examine. To that end, you are expected to incorporate and cite evidence not only from the primary literary text under consideration, but also from at least two (2) additional scholarly secondary sources (books in the library, articles published in scholarly journals, etc.) . Note that the word limits are firm ones.

While the topics below direct your attention to certain elements of these texts, be sure that your paper sets forth a clear argument of its own concerning your chosen topic and that you cite the text in support of the claims you wish to make. Documentation of quotations both from the literary text itself and from secondary materials should follow MLA style guidelines, and your completed paper must therefore include a list of Works Cited.

The topics below are quite general, and are intended to provoke thought and to help guide you towards your own specific argumentative claim. Do not attempt to address all of the sub-questions indicated below under your selected topic; rather, consider these food for thought, and look for a specific problem associated with the suggested topic, developing that as the central argument of your essay.

— T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” begins with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno which, according to the note in our Broadview anthology, comments on the impossibility of one’s return from death to life—“If I thought that my reply were given to anyone who might return to the world, this flame would stand forever still; but since never from this deep place has anyone ever returned alive, if what I hear is true, without fear of infamy I answer thee” (1079n). In what ways might Prufrock be representative of death or the underworld? How is the poem as a whole affected by the fact that, as the epigraph suggests, Prufrock’s words are only uttered in the first place because there is no possibility that he can “return to life from death”? In what specific ways does this relatively pessimistic assumption, which the epigraph introduces, affect our reading of the poem in general?

— Write an essay in which you analyze the significance of Mangan’s sister in James Joyce’s “Araby,” with reference to at least two (2) secondary sources on Joyce’s story. How does the narrator represent her, and what is her significance in the life and imagination of the narrator? How does the narrator develop and change throughout the story in response to this figure and his infatuation with her, and what are we to make of his change and development as a central thematic concern of the story in general?

It is highly recommended that you review the information you received in your library visit earlier this term, and re-familiarize yourself with the use of the library catalogue system, databases, and so on. Remember, though, that any sources you use to contextualize and defend your argument must be scholarly in nature (no newspaper articles, websites, and other such sources as you may have used in your current-affairs research for the persuasive essay).

Format

– Double-spaced, all pages except the first numbered in the top-right corner

– 12-point Times New Roman font, 1” margins

– Include your name, student number, class number and section, instructor’s name, and the date at the top of your first page

Grading Emphases:

– understanding of genre (analysis, argument, research)

– clear assertion of conflict in opening move

– analysis/interpretation/resolution which comments on the meaning of the text as a whole

– use of both primary (the literary text) and secondary (the scholarly articles and books you find in your research) textual evidence

– proper citation and integration of quotations (MLA standard)

– understanding of academic audience

Comma splices, misused semicolons, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, apostrophe errors, and all spelling errors penalized at –1 each. Proofread your work carefully prior to submission.

Note:

For this assignment, you MUST submit a Works Cited list that contains the entry in the Broadview anthology that you are referring to as well as all secondary sources, and you MUST cite your quoted evidence from the text completely, accurately, and according to MLA format.