The following questions can be applied to any of your course texts, and in each essay you may bring in up to 3 texts for comparative purposes if you so desire. I would recommend that a comparison of two texts is perhaps preferable to a comparison of three, in order to leave yourself space to develop your argument fully and to attend sufficiently to the particularities of each text. However, a carefully planned and detailed critical analysis of three texts is perfectly acceptable. This essay title list is to be used for both the first and the second essays. If you wish to formulate your own essay questions, you are more than welcome to do so, but please consult me first.
Some questions refer to specific texts, but most have a general and wide-ranging application.
This will hopefully allow you to research issues and concerns which interest you , and to make connections which you find particularly pertinent. You must not deal with materials on which you have written papers or exam questions for another course, as this would constitute plagiarism. His language so familiar and foreign, will always be to me an acquired speech. Explore the interconnections between language and belonging in one or more texts on the course. Historical events exist not in the moment of their occurrence, but in the moment of their remembrance.