EH 232 Discussion Board Questions 300 words: 1. Discuss where you see examples of Regionalism in the works of 2 writers you’ve looked at so far. What makes these good examples? Why so? Explain in 350 words minimum using examples from the works as support. Read Emily Dickinson’s bio and poems (pages 82-100). Read lecture […]
How does this take on the events of The Turn of the Screw change your perspective about the characters, or does it at all?
Q28 Assignment Using texts “Turn of the Screw” by Henry James and “The Accursed Inhabitants of House of Bly” of Joyce Oates, respond to this prompt: How does this take on the events of The Turn of the Screw change your perspective about the characters, or does it at all? Explain why or why not, […]
Briefly discuss the role played by the natural world—extreme cold, snow and ice, instinct, the “survival of the fittest,” etc.—in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”
ASSIGNMENT Briefly discuss Bierce’s portrayal of the subjectivity of Peyton Farquhar in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”: focus on how Bierce describes his main character’s mental state, his sensory awareness, his sense of the passage of time, etc. Is it “realistic,” and if so, in what sense? Discuss Howells’s “Editha” as an anti-war story. […]
Why might both the United States and England officially claim him? How is it possible that he is studied in both American Literature classes and English Literature classes?
Discussion Prompt: Henry James Information Challenge You are all now used to the idea of presenting some non-Wikipedia research on an author we are studying—especially since the author research prompt is always the most popular one for the first lecture of a particular work. For this prompt, there are multiple steps, all designed to have […]
How have TWO OR MORE authors you have studied in this module represented the relationship between technology and the discovery and/or preservation and/or dissemination of literary texts?
‘His early death had been the only dark spot in his life, unless the papers in Miss Bordereau’s hands should perversely bring out others’ (Henry James). With reference to this quotation, discuss what happens when material objects associated with writers are discovered and/or preserved in the work of TWO OR MORE authors you have studied […]
Read “The Madonna of the Future” by Henry James, and “The Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka, write a response essay with at least 500 words of your own writing.
Fifty Great Short Stories Read “The Madonna of the Future” by Henry James, and “The Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka. These authors are literary giants. Both stories are in Fifty Great Short Stories. Then, in the Reply box below, write a response essay with at least 500 words of your own writing (quotations and headings […]
Present and develop your own argument on The Turn of the Screw novella by Henry James with the use of at least two scholarly sources you have found.
Present and develop your own argument on The Turn of the Screw novella by Henry James with the use of at least two scholarly sources you have found. Your argument must be debatable, and addresses an important topic that is open to interpretation in the text(s), which can be developed by analyzing the reading and […]