ENG 2000 MSU Denver A Good Man is Hard to Find Story Essay ENGLISH 2000 – Introduction to Textual Studies Essay – (25 points) – Due by July 30 Please wri

ENG 2000 MSU Denver A Good Man is Hard to Find Story Essay ENGLISH 2000 – Introduction to Textual Studies

Essay – (25 points) – Due by July 30

Please write an essay that makes substantial use of a critical approach (See pages 1359-1376), and through that lens analyze a particular work(s) of literature that is on our syllabus, remembering to base your paper on a thesis/claim that unites your paper. (See pages 1420-1424) for an example of a student’s research paper.
Read pages 1377-1393 and 1397-1407 very carefully, paying particular attention to the chart on pages 1385-1387!
Since you are writing a Literary Analysis, please read pages 1408-1424, on writing a Literary Analysis using sources. Remember to use at least three scholarly sources that either support or refute your thesis. Follow MLA format using pages 1415-1420 or using the Auraria Library’s resources or Purdue Owl online.
Use Parenthetical References (see pages 1419-1420) whenever you quote texts/rely on textual material (paraphrase, summarize), or whenever you cite a reference. Punctuation matters!
Please include a Works Cited page also in MLA format.
This paper should be approximately 5 pages, excluding the Works Cited page.

Here are some possible subjects, but feel free to explore any combination that deeply interests you.

The role of women in male texts: Ruth in “Killings”; Desdemona or Emilia or Bianca in Othello; the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”; the woman in Stevens’ “Sunday Morning”.
Race as depicted in diverse texts, e.g. O’Connor’s stories; Othello; the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance; Ellison’s “Battle Royal”.
The interplay of text and graphic/comic in Bechdel’s Fun Home.
The different versions of our future as depicted in “Harrison Bergeron” and the film Arrival.
The role of Nature in any of our texts. See particularly “Sunday Morning”, “The Dead”, Fun Home.
“Othering” in any of our texts. See particularly Othello, Fun Home, Arrival.