Assessment submissions: Dates and information.

Assessment submissions: Dates and information.

The closing date for the blogs is at the end of week 13, Friday, June 10, 4 pm. No blogs written after that time can be considered.

The closing date for the research assignments is the beginning of week 14, Friday, June 17 at 4 pm. No assignments after that date can be considered.

All research assignments are to be emailed to me at: m.johnson@xtra.co.nz. Please put ‘Lit Desire’ in the subject line of your email. Please put your name on the document you send me, and put your name inside the doc, on the front page. Please make sure pages are numbered.

Submissions will be accepted in a variety of formats, including plain Word docs for essays, Power Point for that style of presentation, Prezi and any other suitable presentation format. The suggested words limit is 1500 words, and this may vary a little with different formats. However, do not submit your assignment in note form, whatever presentation format used.

All submissions should be referenced. Those using hyperlinks should also provide a list of the websites used.

Note: There are no allowances for late submissions, as I have only a brief window of time to get these graded.

Best, and good luck, Mike Johnson.

Weeks 10-12

Weeks 10-12

Modernism:

What does 'The Wasteland' mean?
1) how has it been interpreted? (cite examples)
2)what are some of the key features
3) In what way has it been influential


Post-Modernism

1) What common qualities do 'the beats' share? Why 'beats'?
2) How is beat poetry linked to rap?
3) How was Bob Dylan's 'Masters of War' involved in controversy during the Bush administration?
4) On what grounds was 'Howl' accused of being obscene - grounds for the defense?
5) What kind of protest song/rap other media have come out in the last decade? Is there a spirit of protest anymore?

Weeks 7 - 9

1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected in the ideological, conceptual and linguistic construction of the texts under consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples...

2. Go online and see if you can find out anything about what really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816...

3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube).

4. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula, etc).