Create a literary analysis

Outside Essay – Text-to-World

Create a literary analysis of one of the primary texts we have read thus far in the semester by using your awareness of historical context and/or world events to help you better understand the literature or by allowing the literature to help you better understand the world around you. Though this is not a traditional research paper, you must cite a minimum of two outside sources that you have used to create a well-informed literary analysis. Use your knowledge of psychology, politics, history, arts, etc. to help you better understand an element of the text you have chosen.

This is a multi-step paper.

1. Choose a text that you see a larger world connection with.
2. Conduct research to familiarize yourself with contextual events and use the text to help you better understand the outer-context or conduct research of the text to find scholarly research and expand your search to larger historical context that the text could be in response to.
3. Submit a 2-3 paragraph explanation/proposal of your approach to this paper in the discussion forum “Essay Proposals.”
4. Write a four-page literary analysis paper that has been informed by your research and awareness of its presence in the world or global impact on the text.

For example, you could write an essay about Haruki Murakami’s collection of short stories After the Quake. You can either research the Kobe earthquake that inspired these events/narratives and take notes on the statistics, devastation, and journalism that surrounded the earthquake and then return to the text to better understand figures like The Earthquake Man and Frog. Or, you could conduct an analysis of The Earthquake Man and Frog as they are presented in the text and research how other scholars interpret these characters, then look to see if what these characters represent is reflected in the context of how people were affected by the Kobe earthquake. Once you have conducted this research, you then are tasked to write an essay that explores the significance of these two characters, what they represent in the text, and how this relates to the context of the literature.

This essay should focus on either character/character development or symbolism/motifs.

Your essay must:

1. Be written in MLA 8 Formatting
2. Include a Works Cited page (not included in the four-page count).
3. Be four complete pages in length.
4. Underline your thesis statement.

Proposal is due in the discussion forum by: [YOU WILL BE DEDUCTED 5 POINTS OFF OF YOUR ORIGINAL EARNED GRADE IF YOU DO NOT MEET THIS DEADLINE].

The final submission of this assignment will be on