Write one shorter research paper with one of the literary works from the semester as your central focus.

Assignment Question

You will be required to write one shorter research paper with one of the literary works from the semester as your central focus. The paper must be 1,500-2,000 words (six to eight pages) in length and include at least two outside sources (the text itself does not count as one of these sources). Your paper should analyze the literary work using a clear and specific critical lens. For example, you could analyze the text using a cultural or historical lens, focusing on how the literary work reflects the cultural/historical society that it represents. Another option would be to analyze the text through a gender focused or feminist reading, discussing how gender roles are represented in the text. Yet another option would be a literary analysis, looking at how a specific theme or style in the work of literature is developed through the storytelling choices of the author(s). Your outside sources should clearly and specifically support your topic and your thesis. USE THESE SOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED Cervantes, Miguel De; Ozell’s Revision of Translation by Peter Motteux; Herschel Brickell. AbeBooks.www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31213088845&searchurl=fe%3Don%26ds%3D30%26sortby%3D1%26tn%3Ddon%2Bquixote%26an%3Dcervantes&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp2-_-title1. Kluge, Sofie. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History. Taylor & Francis, 2022. Ma, Ning. “La Mancha to the Indies: The Romance and Materiality of the Empire in Don Quixote.” Academic.com, Feb. 2016, academic.oup.com/book/6864/chapter-abstract/151074879?redirectedFrom=fulltext. Vilches, Patricia. “Chivalry, Materialism, and the Grotesque in Don Quijote and Alberto Blest Gana’s El ideal de un calavera.” Open Cultural Studies 1.1 (2017): 17-31. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2017-0003/html

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