Assignment: For the second essay of the quarter you will write a thesis-driven synthesis of two texts that we have (or will) read in class this quarter. In a synthesis, your objective is to find and explicate a meaningful connection (not simply an obvious similarity) between two texts, with the goal of coming to a deeper or new understanding of […]
Philippe Soupault’s novel, The Last Nights of Paris (1928) and Aragon’s Paris Peasant (1928) are on the surface extremely different types of writing; one of them is written in an extremely cinematic way to resemble genre fiction (Soupault) and the other reads like a kind of oneiric travel guide to the city. Both texts, however, are generally grouped as part […]
Sources are the books: The Quest of the Holy Grail(translated by P.M. Matarasso) & Perceval The Story of the Grail(translated by Burton Raffel). Questions that need to be answered: How are Arthur and/or his knights depicted? To what extent do the texts relate to Arthurian conventions(knights in shining armor, a single worthy knight, Camelot being the ideal kingdom, etc.)?What role, […]
