If you'd like to plan ahead, here is a sketch of your final project that I promised to give you on Weds., had class not been cancelled. We'll go over this next week, but feel free to offer any comments on the blog before then. Enjoy!
Final Paper: Transforming Rhetoric
I believe that one of the most interesting aspects of studying rhetoric and literature is examining the ways in which language can undergo a transformation to reflect the culture, the genre, the writer’s motives, the anticipated reader/ listener/ viewer, and so on. For this final project, I would like each of you to identify some literary transformation and trace it as completely as possible. I have many suggestions, some of which are listed below, and we will brainstorm a list of possibilities in class as well. This will be an analytical paper that involves close readings of the various texts. Suggested length is a minimum of 6 pages; the paper should include some secondary research but the extent of that is up to you.
Myth into poetry and/or fiction
Daedalus and Icarus; Daphne and Apollo; Narcissus; Persephone, and many
others.
(see Nina Kossman’s Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths)
Fiction into Film
A useful website for this is called Based on the Book.
Play into film
Versions of Hamlet
Macbeth and Throne of Blood
Perspective changes in fiction
Jane Eyre and Rhys’ The Wide Sargasso Sea
Beowulf and Gardner’s Grendel
The Odyssey and Atwood’s Penelopiad
Fairy Tales through the ages
Various versions of Cinderella
Anne Sexton’s Transformations
Rapunzel and Donna Jo Napoli’s Zel
Music and Poetry
Anne Sexton’s poetry and the music of Her Kind
Joy Harjo’s poetry and the music of Poetic Justice
Representations of the trickster, vampires, you name it, in word, art, film
Any literary theme or historical event in word, art, film
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