Thursday, April 8, 2010
THE FINAL PAPER
For my project I would like to compare the aspects of Dark Romanticism and the Gothic. I will be using either Poe’s Ligeia or Berenice (perhaps both) as well as one or two of his poems. Those of which I am still a little undecided. I also want to use Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Daughter even though we didn’t read it for Dark Romanticism week I still think it fits in with the theme and last but not least I will use Brown’s Edgar Huntly to help argue that the aspects of both the Gothic and Dark Romanticism are overlapping. In a way you can’t have one without the other. They are so entwined that I wonder why it is they are even considered to be two separate themes. I would like to argue with the help of these texts that the Gothic and Dark Romanticism are one in the same and that it is impossible to have one without the other. If this seems too easy and lame feel free to let me know.
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Well, you can't make big genre claims based on a few examples and in a very short paper. So, I would suggest first narrowing this down tremendously, and then when you get to the point of saying something like "DR wouldn't have happened without the Gothic" you have to ask yourself "so what?" Think more on it, and once you have a narrowly-defined topic that is _not_ a compare-and-contrast report, then you will be able to find secondary material to support your argument. If you do another draft of this proposal before Friday's assignment is due, let me know so I can look at it again.
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