Dr. Morillo
Second Paper: Due when your team presents, see syllabus
The second paper will be a collaborative project: with a partner you
will compile a literature review, a kind of annotated bibliography, of
what you consider the most
interesting, useful work on one of our novels. You will
produce a short ( 4-6 page) annotated bibliography of recent
(1995-2006) secondary critical work, including essays, book chapters,
etc., on a chosen novel. Follow MLA form for each entry. You will turn one copy of this bibliography in to me and
provide each student with a copy (doc, pdf, htm) or a url for a web copy (or both).
Sharing this research should also prove
useful to everyone's final paper.
Each reviewing team will be
responsible for
presenting the literature review as a 10-15 minute oral summary of the
state of scholarship on your chosen novel. You are encouraged to use
any helpful electronic sources to do the research. In all cases, but
especially with
some major canonized writers you'll have to limit yourself not only to
the one novel at hand, but to what you consider the most interesting
relevant selection from the current criticism. In some cases, where
much less critical work has been done directly on a novel (e.g. Anti-Pamela),
you might need
to branch out to consider the novelist or perhaps a given theme in
his/her work that has been discussed, but in studies not specifically
limited to your chosen novel. Please follow our now-established and
useful genre by providing a short handout, not your complete
annotated bibliogrpahy, supporting the information in the oral
presentation. You will decide whether
you wish to have each person write and speak, one write and one speak,
or any other combination so long as the work both written and oral is
completed.