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Read the Book First
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This 3 page paper discusses some of the differences between the novel and film versions of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Reader Response Theory and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
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This 5 page report discusses the literary criticism known as “reader response theory.” . Any work of literature can be viewed through a psychological, political, feminist, or even structural perspective and interpreted within that specific framework. As a result, various aspects of meaning present themselves and cause the reader to reconsider the context and intent of what he or she has just read. For example, reader response theory allows the for a greater degree of synthesis between reader and text. It also encourages the individual reader to relate on a personal level to the text and understand their responses to the literature. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Reader Response to Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Story ‘Welcome to the Monkey House’
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In seven pages this reader response paper provides a literary analysis of the short story and also considers its importance to the reader. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Reading as a Form of Resistance
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A 5 page essay that references James Scott's essay "Behind the Official Story" and Azar Nafisi's "Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran." The writer uses the Scott text to explain how Nafisi creates a hidden transcript for her students through literature, which helps keep her female students preserve their sense of self identity in the face of patriarchal religious oppression. No additional source cited. The bibliographical references for the two essays is incomplete.
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Reading Materials on King Arthur for a High School Medieval Literature Class
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This 20 page paper briefly reviews 20 different works relating to King Arthur, Camelot, and Arthurian legends. Ranging from Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur from the 15th century to 21st century picture books and anthologies, this report considers which books would be of the greatest value for a high school class studying the time of Arthur. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Reading Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s “Don Quixote de la Mancha”
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A 5 page paper which examines how the impression that the characters are taking over telling their own story is conveyed, by considering how Don Quixote and Sancho Panza grow on each other throughout the course of the epic novel, until the point that they cannot exist without each other, and how Cervantes begins his text by mocking the aging Quixote, but eventually comes to love him, as do the characters. No other sources are used.
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Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary
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In five pages this paper compares and contrasts the impact of reading romantic fantasy and the actual reality of life affect the protagonists of these novels by Miguel de Cervantes and Gustave Flaubert. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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Reading Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” as a Feminist Novel
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A 6 page paper which examines this novel represents itself as a feminist text, particularly in terms of Nanny’s influence on her granddaughter, Janie Crawford, and its portrayal of male-female relationships. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Reading, and Writing that Lasts
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This 3 page paper briefly revisits ideas of what novels are about; and then decides on 3 novels that will endure: “The Things They Carried,” “Maus,” and “Haroun and the Sea of Stories.”
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Realism and Fantasy: Shaw's Heartbreak House
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A 5 page paper which discusses the use of realism and fantasy in George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House." The paper also discusses other works of Shaw's which present similar images bordering amidst realism and fantasy. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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