This is a midterm essay for my course, fiction. we have to choose a work of fiction and write an interpretive argument regarding one of the core themes of a single fictional text. I am posting the instruction that my professor has given us because that has all the information. One of the important things would be to provide evidence of your interpretation:
Instructor instruction about the essay: (just follow this, if any questions please let me know)
For your midterm essay, construct a close-reading-based analysis that advances an interpretive argument regarding one of the core themes of a single fictional text. You may write about one of the texts we have looked at this semester, another selection included in An Introduction to Fiction, or a different work that you clear with me. Consider the formal elements of narrative fiction covered in class this semester and draw on the critical terminology we have covered – as appropriate. Also, remember that your interpretive claims need to be grounded in engagement with evidence from the text in question in the form of short quotations or paraphrases. Again, the heart of your essay needs to consist of providing a detailed analysis of the development of a single major theme; if you are just summarizing the work in question, you are not satisfying the criteria of this assignment.
Your essay should draw meaningfully on at least two scholarly secondary sources – that is, these sources should be woven in substantively to your line(s) of argument to advance your interpretation, provide cultural or socio-historical context for your analysis, and/or offer a contrastive analytical take on the text(s) in question. These sources should not be used to throw random quotations into your essay as “garnish,” draw on biographical author data that isn’t connected substantively to your analysis, or introduce ideas that you don’t connect up within your analysis. You may use peer-reviewed books and articles (in print or from the online databases our library subscribes to), but no webpages—though copies of print articles made available online are acceptable).
Please run your proposed topic (text and analytic focus)
Thank you so much!
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