Category: Literature

This goes with the other paper you did I will attach it also. This is the discussion for the piece of literature that you got approved in the previous assignment. If your assignment has not been graded/approved (check grade and check for submission comments from me), then do NOT do this yet. To complete this assignment, you will need to identify and read one piece of American literature since 1945. The piece of American literature may or may not come from our textbook.
Instructions
1. Identify one piece of American literature written from 1945 to the present. This piece of literature can be fiction or nonfiction. This piece of American literature may or may not come from our textbook.
2. Identify and give a brief biography of the author.
3. Explain how the literary work you have chosen fits the characteristics of literature written since 1945. Use the overview to review characteristics of literature written during the specified era. AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945 PERIOD INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW
4. Give a summary of the literary work(s). If it is poetry, summarize at least two of the poet’s poems.

Prompt
reading “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography” from pages 3-152, respond to the following: 

1. Characterize (ideally a one-word adjective) Audre’s relationship with one other woman in the text. Use at least one example from the text to explain that characterization.
2. Consider an event represented in the first half of the memoir that is completely outside your personal experience. Reflect on that difference, your reaction to it, and what you can learn from that reaction. 
3.  BONUS: consider moments when the “voice” of the narrator (Lorde) feels particularly palpable. How would you characterize that voice (one word adjective) and why? 
Evaluation Parameters
All discussion posts should be completed with ~500 words (not counting any quotations you include from the reading)

The purpose of this presentation is to analyze the representation of culture in “A Disappearing Number”  by Simon McBurney.
Consider the history and culture of the time it was written as well as when the play takes place. Construct your thesis around the impact of culture on the play’s content and techniques, as well as what the playwright was attempting to capture about it in his or her work. Examples of analytical support for your thesis include discussion of plot, character, theme, staging, setting, dialogue, sound or music design, or any of the other techniques we’ve examined in this course.
You must use all 3 sources including quotes from all 3.
You must use MLA style for all formatting and citations.
you are to make the presentation and a script for this assignment.
Presentation Requirements
Length:
10-15 slides (the title slide and works cited do not count toward the minimum)
Presentation length: 5-10 minutes
make a script for the presentation that is 5-10 min long
Voice or video recording of slide presentation and discussion
1000-word length 
Important: the title slide, works cited slide, and any slide that does not contain at least 50 words will not count toward the 10-slide minimum.
Analysis:
A clear thesis statement covering the topic for the presentation.
Support your analysis of the play with specific lines, examples, and screenshots from the play.
Research:
Include at least one quote from each of your resources.
When looking for sources, you may or may not find sources specific to your chosen play. At times, you may need to look for criticism or articles on drama or history in general.
Example Structure:  
Introduction and thesis
Historical Context
Themes and Symbols
Characters, Setting, Plot
Staging, Production
Apply Research to Analysis
Conclusion
Works Cited
citation for towards a spectatorial approach to drama analysis: 
Kallenbach, Ulla, and Annelis Kuhlmann. “Towards a Spectatorial Approach to Drama Analysis.” Nordic Theatre Studies, 2019.
citation for Theatre, mathematics, and the aesthetics of infinity: Complicite’s A Disappearing Number.: 
Kazzazi, Seyedeh Anahit. “Theatre, Mathematics, and the Aesthetics of Infinity: Complicite’s A Disappearing Number.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 45, no. 2, 2020, pp. 141–57, https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2020.1779509.
please also sight the play as well.

Answer questions reflecting on your opininons and reactions to the literary works that you have read. Please always write in the first person. I leave the personal opinion to your creativity. I am a woman if you need to include something more. If you have any doubts, let me know

Select either a tragedy or a comedy from our textbook and discuss how the playwright told the story. Why does the story fall into the realm of either tragedy or comedy, or both? Provide 3 examples from the story in terms of the plot, characters, staging, dialogue, etc. that illustrate the play’s genre. 
Textbook is: Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, Tenth Edition 2021 MLA Update Edition

narrate the events that lead to the expulsion of snowball from animal farm, bringing out in your answer Napoleon’s desire for power

In Validity in Interpretation by E. D. Hirsch in section (e) of “Understanding, Interpretation, and Criticism,” Hirsch indicates that his purpose is “to defend the right of literary criticism (or any other criticism based on a broad generic idea) to be as ‘literary’ or ‘unliterary’ as it pleases and still to qualify as objective knowledge and objective valuation.” Hirsch notes that there is a subjective element even to “following a particular method or adopting a particular vocabulary and set of criteria.” He goes on to note that this type of criticism is extrinsic because the primary reference point for the criticism is whatever the critic deems pertinent in establishing the criteria. This final item leads to validation, which is “the process which shows that in a particular case…knowledge [of a text’s meaning] has probably been achieved.” Please develop an initial post where you apply a particular form of literary criticism to your own creative work (a contemporary novel about identity and self-worth). This discussion can be broad or sweeping (with few direct quotes from the source text), but it should include some references/quotations of support from secondary sources. 
Requirements:
MLA Citations from Validity in Interpretation by E. D. Hirsch
Citiing for two (2) other peer-reviewed journals or interviews with the author or authors in that genre
Post must demonstrate comprehension of the text readings and course information.
Use of the text readings must not be mechanical; rather, use the readings
strategically and comment on the material that is cited. Make
sure that your in-text citations and bibliographic information are accurate and complete,
in accordance with MLA style.

Below are the instructions 
Here are some of my suggestions of books,
“The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, and “The Rocking Horse Winner”,
by D.H. Lawrence
“Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, and “The Lie” by Kurt
Vonnegut 
matilda by roald dahl, and “stolen party” by Liliana Heker,

The Phenomenon of Oprah’s Book Club
The following list comprises some of the key terms you will encounter in both class discussion and the required readings. While some of these terms may be up for interpretation, this glossary represents our collective understanding of the terms. Write a complete description of your assigned term and remember to tell us what source you used and why you chose to use that source. Here are some questions to consider: How reliable is your source, and how did you determine what information to include (or exclude) in your description of the assigned term?

The instructions are provided along with the outline that needs to be turned into an essay if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. please use. Levine, R. S. (2023). The Norton Anthology of American Literature (10th ed.). W. W. Norton & Company.