Prospectus/Annotated Bibliography

As you know, you must turn in a prospectus roughly a month before your final paper is due in which you lay out a question or topic you want to consider in the essay, describe what texts you will analyze, and consider what's at stake in the question or topic (no more than two single-spaced pages); you will also append an annotated bibliography in which you list at least three critical or theoretical works in MLA format that will inform your treatment of the question or topic and, for each, briefly summarize relevant arguments and how you expect they will help you develop your own arguments (no more than five single-spaced pages). The prospectus and annotated bibliography will be due in class on April 11.

Please avoid the urge to be encyclopedic in the annotated bibliography--include only the works that you believe will be most directly relevant to the question or topic you have explained and justified in your prospectus. Doing this will necessitate some preliminary research in which you use both your reserves browsing privileges and the on-line MLA bibliography (and, most likely, inter-library loan). If you want to run ideas and even drafts by me, please do so over e-mail or come by my office hours.

EN 514: Comparative Approaches to Literature, Spring 2000
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