You may write your Course Paper ONLY on (any one or more of) the following texts:

1. Federico García Lorca (Avant-garde/  Spain): Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejías
2. Jonathan Swift (Enlightenment/ Ireland) : A Modest Proposal
3. James Joyce (Modern/ Ireland): The Dead
4. Mo Yan (Modern/China): The Old Gun
5. Rabindranath Tagore; (Modern/ India): Kabuliwala
6. Hanan Al-Shaykh (Modern/ Lebanon): The Women’s Swimming Pool
7. Naguib Mahfouz (Modern/ Egypt): Zaabalawi
8. Doris Lessing  (Colonial/  Rhodesia): The Old Chief of Mshlanga
9. Nawal El Saadawi (Feminist/Egypt): In Camera
10. Leslie Marmon Silko (Post [-] colonial/ United States): Yellow Woman
11. Toni Morrison: Recitatif
12. Alice Munro  (Contemporary/ Canada): Walker Brothers Cowboy
13. Pablo Neruda (Modern Romantic/  Chile): Tonight I Can Write; Ode to the Tomato
14. Clarice Lispector  (Modern/  Brazil): The Daydreams of a Drunken Woman
15. Jorge Luis Borges  (Modern/  Argentina): The Garden of the Forking Paths
16. Katherine Mansfield (Modernist/ New Zealand): The Garden Party
17. Witi Ihimaera (Postcolonial/ New Zealand): This Life is Weary

The purpose of this essay will be
to demonstrate to me that you can argue effectively about literature. You
should have a clear thesis statement
that you then support with specific evidence throughout the rest of your essay.
Your evidence will come from the text itself and from secondary sources as
well.  This essay is not a plot summary, response paper, book report, or
explication. Instead, it is a persuasive analysis in which you enlighten the
work of literature you are writing about.

You should assume that your reader
is familiar with the literature you are discussing and address that reader
accordingly.

The specific topic concerning literature
is up to you, and the approach you use in your analysis will also be up to you.
You are welcome to employ whatever analytical tools seem appropriate to your
topic and to your interests. Your essay must deal with literature we are
studying in this course. Look at the list I have given under “Course Paper
texts”.  You may discuss one or two works
of literature but no more than two works. For example, you can write a
comparative analysis of the female characters in “The Woman’s Swimming Pool”
and “In Camera,” OR you can do an in-depth analysis on the role of desire in Mo
Yan’s “The Old Gun”(it is up to
you!).

You must have at least FOUR secondary sources. NO BLOCK
QUOTATIONS (any quote that extends beyond 4 typed lines). These sources must be
scholarly. Remember, you are in college and your writing must reflect scholarly
thinking and presentation. This is not your weekly discussion board responses.
It must reflect your mastery of ENG 1101/1102.

Papers should be double spaced, with 1” margin on the left
and 1.5” margin on the right.  Please use
12-point Times New Roman.  Cite your sources according to MLA. You
should have a minimum of FOUR outside
sources.  Do not use Internet sources
unless the exact same source exists in a printed form and merely happens to be
on-line in a full text version.  Papers
will be graded on the originality of argument, use and integration of textual
evidence, development of detail, and mechanics of writing.

Word
Limit:
MINIMUM of 8-9 double-spaced pages (9^th page will be Works Cited)