Literary Research Paper

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Literary Research Paper
Now that you have learned about Literary Research For your research paper, you will choose one of the following topics and create a 5-6 page literary research paper.
Since this is a literary research paper, you will do the following things:
1. Create an original thesis 2. Use specific evidence from the story/stories to support your argument 3. Use published literary criticism to support your argument (Use the Alabama Virtual Library for your sources). 4. Use published sources on your topic to support your argument (Use the Alabama Virtual Library for your sources).
Topic Ideas for Research Paper. Using the stories or the authors from Chapter 10,
choose one of the following topics to develop:
1. A particular work. You might explore character or tone and style, ideas, structure, form, and the like. A research paper on a single work is similar to an essay on the same work, except that the research paper takes into account more views and facts than those you are likely to have without the research.
2. A particular author. A project might focus on an idea or some facet of style, imagery, setting, or tone of the author, tracing the origins and developments of the topic through a number of different stories, poems, or plays.
3. Comparison and Contrast: There are 2 types:
1) An idea or quality common to two or more authors. Here you show points of
similarity or contrast, or else you show how one author’s work can be to taken to
criticize another’s.
2) Different critical views of a particular work or body of works. Sometimes much is to be gained from an examination of differing critical opinions on topics. Such a study would attempt to determine the critical opinion and taste to which a work did or did not appeal, and it might also aim at conclusions about whether the work was in the advance or rear guard of its time.
4. The influence of an idea, author, philosophy, political situation, or artistic movement on specific works of an author or authors.
5. The origin of a particular work or type of work. Such an essay might examine an author’s biography to discover the germination and development of a work.