Your job is to examine two authors/texts and discern what significant meaning is generated by a meaningful difference. In choosing your texts, you must identify a significant similarity that allows the difference to highlight a meaningful idea.
our comparison must establish why you are comparing the two chosen texts and focus on ONE meaningful difference between the texts.
Specifications:
Your paper must…
be 2,600 words long (NOT COUNTING WORKS CITED PAGE) (approx. 8 pages)
quote, summarize, and/or paraphrase from the following sources:
o the two primary sources—(the literary text or texts you are analyzing)
o Walter Wink’s essay “The Myth of Redemptive Violence”
o at least 2 books/ebooks (secondary sources)
o at least 5 peer-reviewed articles from scholarly literary journals found in library databases
(only one article from The Explicator is allowed). Book reviews do not count. No websites are permitted. (secondary sources)
have a descriptive title
provide a reason for comparing the two texts in the introduction
contain a clear interpretive thesis statement that summarizes your conclusions
o remember that your thesis claim should be specific and significant
explain and support its main points with specific examples and/or quotations from the texts
use the alternating format for compare/contrast papers rather than the block format (see below) contain unified, coherent, well-developed paragraphs with strong topic sentences
cite the literary texts in proper MLA documentation format
be formatted according to the MLA guidelines
Use The Norton Anthropology of World Literature for the primary source
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