by Laura K. Clark | Jul 9, 2022 | World literature
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OF MEDEA. Your essay should address the following topic: Apply ONE of the following forms of criticism to your selected reading: Historical Criticism: Analyze how historical events during the author’s lifetime might have impacted and influenced...
by Laura K. Clark | Jul 7, 2022 | World literature
Essay question (20 pts.) Choose one of the following three questions and write a short essay response. These responses should be thoughtful and developed should include direct quotations from the text(s) at hand, and should be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs in length.....
by Laura K. Clark | Jun 22, 2022 | World literature
This response should be thoughtful and developed, should include direct quotations from the text(s) at hand, and should be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs in length: The Epic of Gilgamesh does not exactly have a happy ending. Certainly the hero, Gilgamesh, is not...
by Laura K. Clark | Jun 22, 2022 | World literature
1) In no fewer than 150 words, write your own discussion post answering one of the following prompts: Select several passages, paragraphs, or moments from “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” and then, using our lecture on Realism, show how these passages are good...
by Laura K. Clark | Jun 21, 2022 | World literature
Unit 1B’s introduction to the Five Great Themes of World Literature states with regard to the hero: “The surest way to understand what a culture of the past most values is to focus on what it considers heroic, in that a culture recognizes its heroes as...
by Laura K. Clark | Apr 28, 2022 | World literature
We’ve spent the last few class days focusing on Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabler. In the play, we see a woman who, faced with little other options, marries a man she does not love and is desperately unhappy in her boring, middle-class life. She has little interest in her...