TNCC Literary Analysis Essay 1 The Use of Ordinary Language in Art
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Literary Analysis Essay Instructions
Essay #3: Due Sun., Mar. 31
REQUIRED READINGSTo be successful in this unit of our course, you should read or view – at a minimum – the following selections:
“Realism Across the Globe” background essay, Norton 655 – 9
“Charles Baudelaire” background essay, Norton 555 – 7
From The Flowers of Evil, Norton 557 – 69
“Gustave Flaubert” background essay, Norton 737 – 40
“A Simple Heart,” Norton 740 – 64 (or see the Word version below)
“Henrik Ibsen” background essay, Norton 807 – 10
Hedda Gabler, Norton 810 – 67
“Leo Tolstoy,” background essay, Norton 764 – 9
“The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Norton 769 – 807

“A Simple Soul” – Gustave Flaubert
Attached Files:
A Simple Soul.doc (98.5 KB)
This is a different translation of the same story from our textbook. In the Norton Anthology, it is called “A Simple Heart,” but in this Project Gutenberg translation, the title is “A Simple Soul.”

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OPTIONAL READINGSTo take your study of the Romantic Era and its literature to a higher level, consider reading or viewing any of the additional selections below.

LITERATURE – Gustave Flaubert
Watch VideoLITERATURE – Gustave FlaubertDuration: 9:40
User: n/a – Added: 6/24/16
YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8lZO39T-0
A good, short discussion of Flaubert’s contributions to literature and the human experience. Though this brief lecture draws mainly from Flaubert’s masterpiece novel, Madame Bovary, and a lesser known work of his called theDictionary of Received Ideas, we can apply much of what it teaches to our reading of “A Simple Heart.”

Lecture on Hedda Gabler and Realism
Watch VideoLecture on Hedda Gabler and RealismDuration: 33:20
User: n/a – Added: 7/10/18
YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z59bctumsag
A good lecture by Allison Kellar on Ibsen’s background, the literary/dramatic conventions of his day, and his playHedda Gabler.Kellar also makes interesting comparisons between Ibsen’s play and Moliere’s Tartuffe.

Hedda Gabler 1963 (TV) ^ Ingrid Bergman
Watch VideoHedda Gabler 1963 (TV) ^ Ingrid BergmanDuration: 76:35
User: n/a – Added: 3/29/14
YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqm4VMl3wY
A 1963 TV Adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, starring Ingrid Bergman as Hedda Gabler.

Thomas Hardy – Background Essay
Attached Files:
About Hardy.docx (256.594 KB)
Background on the English nNovelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, a writer in the Realist tradition.

“An Imaginative Woman” – Thomas Hardy
Attached Files:
An Imaginative Woman–Thomas Hardy.docx (42.534 KB)
A short story by Thomas Hardy.
Essays must be submitted by 11:00 p.m. on the indicated due dates, using the online essay submission links located in Blackboard under the .Assignments. button.
Content: Each essay you write should focus on a specific text we have examined in class–with emphasis on a short passage or precisely defined feature or element of that text. A literary analysis is NOT”¦
a broad discussion of a text and its background, purpose, or influence
a summary of its plot or content
a reflective statement of your own emotional response to the text
Instead, a literary analysis is a tightly focused and methodical examination of some key element in a text–a powerful image, a puzzling symbol, an intriguing character, a structural oddity, etc.Furthermore, your discussion of that key element should aim to support a narrow, argumentative statement about the text.How does your examination of that key element help us to better understand the text’s theme, development, aesthetic merit, or significance for a given culture, place, or time?
For example, a literary analysis of The Epic of Gilgamesh might focus upon a single image, or pattern of images–say, the use of animal images–to underscore some part of the epic’s overall message.Surely, Gilgamesh contains many other formal elements as well, but your analysis would ignore those other elements, or mention them only when they relate to your particular thesis (the main point you want to make about the epic’s use of animal imagery).
Sources:For literary analysis, you needn’t use any outsides sources other than the literary text you are analyzing.But if you do decide to include some ideas borrowed from scholarly sources – including those you discuss in your Literary Research Blog entries – be sure to cite all instances of borrowed material (words and/or ideas) and to document all sources from your which you borrow in a Works Cited list, using proper MLA guidelines. See the resources in our Blackboard site under the .Handouts. button for help on quoting, citing, and documenting literary and scholarly texts. Also, do not quote heavily from your sources; instead, use them sparingly but effectively to support your own ideas.
Length & Style: Each essay you write should be appr