Expert answer:Continental Fiction Essay 2500 words

Expert answer:Continental Fiction English literature essay, from 1880 to 1950. Please read prompt carefully, no plagiarism. 2500 words. All the books required are included.
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COURSE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT WITH SAMPLE TOPICS
English 361: Continental Fiction, 1880 to 1950
The course essay should be 2500 words in length (7 or 8 double-spaced pages in 12 point Times New
Roman font, with one-inch margins all around). Like your other work, the paper should be sent as an
email attachment to no later than Sunday, December 3 (or early the next Monday).
Course essays should deal with a significant, well-focused topic involving either one or several
works assigned in this course. You should think of the paper as an opportunity to examine an issue in
more depth than is usually possible in a survey course. In this spirit the essay should express your own
thoughtful response to the readings chosen, and should include well-chosen examples to support and
illustrate your points. Be sure to give your paper a truly informative title.
I do not expect you to consult secondary works. But if you do, you should include notes acknowledging specific debts, plus a bibliography listing ALL the works consulted. When quoting books from
the course, you may use an informal reference system, with an abbreviated title and the page number in
parentheses after the quotation. Thus The Trial, p. 140 might be (T 140).
Paper topics will generally involve either a comparison/contrast of two novels, or a more thorough
study of one novel. However, if you write on Chekhov, you will need to compare his story or stories
with a work by some other writer. Since the paper is due before we come to Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce
is absent from the sample topics shown below. Consult with me if you are interested in comparing this
short novel with another course reading.
The following list gives examples of both types of paper, but is meant for guidance only. The
topics are not recipes for a paper. I encourage you to design topics of your own; if you chose one of the
topics shown below, you should be sure to develop and enlarge it. In addition, any of the broad
interpretation questions that I’ve circulated for discussion could be a jumping-off point for an essay.
COMPARISON/CONTRAST TOPICS:
1. Fantasy cities in The Trial and We. What distinctive methods are used to distance readers from an
everyday, common-sensical urban world in these novels, and what key themes or issues does the
fantasy highlight? What are the major differences in these two urban fantasies?
2. For Nabokov, Camus was not a top-flight novelist. He may be right if originality of narrative technique and vividness of tone are the priority, but though Despair was itself written at a time of crisis, The
Plague is the better witness to difficult times and does more to inspire action from its readers. Discuss.
3. Seaside life in The House by the Medlar Tree and Within a Budding Grove. What key differences
does comparing these novels reveal between realist/naturalist fiction and its modernist successor? Do
these two novels also illustrate major differences between traditional and more “modern” ways of life?
4. The power of conformity. What varied forms does conformity take for Törless and D-503, how
do the authors dramatize its power, and how successful are the characters in being true to themselves?
IN-DEPTH DISCUSSIONS:
1. The reader’s changing, vacillating, or even confused perceptions of Josef K. Is he an innocent
victim or is he someone who deserves his trial – or should he be categorized entirely differently?
2. The Malavoglia — heroes or victims? After reading widely in modern fiction after Verga, do the
conflicts and choices faced by this realistic novel’s characters gain a new interest or more relevance?
3. Is Albertine really a many-sided, unpredictable character, or does she merely seem that way to the
narrator, who as a young man is blinded by his own assumptions and inexperience?
4. Is The Plague a “dialogic” novel: that is, does it have separate characters who believe in religion,
politics, science, or love and whose views are expressed so forcefully that their different outlooks are
roughly equivalent in authority? Or does either the plot or the narrative voice play favorites?
BOOKS WE READ
Required Books (listed in chronological order, by date of publication. Notice that both Proust’s and Kafka’s novels
originated before people had experienced the full impact of World War I):
1881
Giovanni Verga, I MALAVOGLIA: THE HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR TREE (Dedalus).
1890s Anton Chekhov, LADY WITH THE LITTLE DOG AND OTHER STORIES (Penguin).
1906
Robert Musil, THE CONFUSIONS OF YOUNG TORLESS (Penguin).
1919 Marcel Proust, WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE (Modern Library; based on earlier drafts written from 1907 to
1914).
1921
Evgeny Zamiatin, WE (Penguin).
1925
Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL (Schocken, written 1914-15). Breon Mitchell translation!
1936
Vladimir Nabokov, DESPAIR (Vintage, 1965 English revision of the Russian original).
1939
Marguerite Yourcenar, COUP DE GRÂCE (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
1947
Albert Camus, THE PLAGUE (Vintage).
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