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General Instructions: Write an essay of at least 750 words (including quotations from the reading selections that you use as support) on ONE of the numbered topics below. If you use secondary sources in your response (even those I have provided for you), be sure to cite them in the text of the paper, using MLA format for in-text citations. You will also need a works cited list if you use secondary sources. Quotations from the textbook require only a page number. You should choose different poems or short stories than those you used in your reading responses for Volume D. The supporting examples should be by different authors.


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3. In the section called "Modernism Abroad and On Native Grounds," the editors say that "[m]any writers chose to identify themselves with the American scene and to root their work in specific regions" of the country (D: 17). Discuss at least three poems or short stories (fiction) by three different authors that chose to focus on a particular part of the United States. In your paper, you should show how these writers combine modernism and regionalism. Again, you may wish to use quotations from this introductory material, but you should also use quotations from the literature (poems or stories) themselves. (Note: Usually "specific regions" means parts of the U. S. away from urban literary centers--the West, Midwest, South, New England, etc.) This section includes many examples of writers who fit into this category (see D: 17).


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MIDTERM ESSAY EXAM ENGLISH 2328 DAIGLE PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY IN THE ASSIGNMENT FILE DROPBOX IN MODULE 5. YOU MAY CLICK ON THE MODULE TO FIND THIS, OR YOU MAY CLICK ON “ASSIGNMENTS” ON THE LEFT MENU. General Instructions: Write an essay of at least 750 words (including quotations from the reading selections that you use as support) on ONE of the numbered topics below. If you use secondary sources in your response (even those I have provided for you), be sure to cite them in the text of the paper, using MLA format for in-text citations. You will also need a works cited list if you use secondary sources. Quotations from the textbook require only a page number. You should choose different poems or short stories than those you used in your reading responses for Volume D. The supporting examples should be by different authors. All stories and poems must come from Volume D of the textbook. Here is a link for the Table of Contents. http://media.wwnorton.com/cms/contents/NAAL8_VD_TOC.pdf To prepare for the midterm, you will need to read the introduction to Volume D, "American Literature Between the Wars: 1914-1945," especially the following sections: “Changing Times" (D: 6-9). “American Versions of Modernism" (D: 13-16) and "Modernism Abroad and On Native Grounds" (D: 16-18). You should also read at least one of the following reading selections from the textbook section called “Modernist Manifestos” (335-350): “Feminist Manifesto” (D: 338) by Mina Loy, “From A Retrospect” by Ezra Pound, “From The Novel Demeuble” by Willa Cather, or “From The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” by Langston. . . • The paper should be in essay form with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion (not a collection of reading responses--no sub-headings). • You should use quotations from the reading selections as support for your general ideas. Your examples must show that you have read the literature that you are discussing, not just the author's biography. • A brief overview isn't adequate. Again, you must show that you read the selection (poem or story) carefully. WRITE ABOUT this TOPICS. "Some writers rejoiced while others lamented; some anticipated future utopias while others believed that civilization had collapsed; but the period's most influential voices believed that old forms would not work for new times, and were inspired by the possibility of creating something entirely new" (D: 6). (Everything following this quotation will help you write your essay.) This quotation seems important: "At the heart of high modernist aesthetic lay the conviction that the previously sustaining structures of human life, whether social, political, religious, or artistic, had been destroyed or shown up as falsehoods, or, at best, arbitrary and fragile human constructions" (D: 14). The section called "American Versions of Modernism" (D: 13-16) will help you choose writers to include. Useful quotation from the introduction to Volume D: 3. In the section called "Modernism Abroad and On Native Grounds," the editors say that "[m]any writers chose to identify themselves with the American scene and to root their work in specific regions" of the country (D: 17). Discuss at least three poems or short stories (fiction) by three different authors that chose to focus on a particular part of the United States. In your paper, you should show how these writers combine modernism and regionalism. Again, you may wish to use quotations from this introductory material, but you should also use quotations from the literature (poems or stories) themselves. (Note: Usually "specific regions" means parts of the U. S. away from urban literary centers--the West, Midwest, South, New England, etc.) This section includes many examples of writers who fit into this category (see D: 17). Please let me know if you need help deciding which short stories (fiction) and poems to use in your paper.
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