For this essay choose one of the seven primary writers we've looked at in this unit: Aram Saroyan, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Rupi Kaur, John Giorno, TS Eliot, Samuel Beckett, or Gertrude Stein. You are free to reference other writers and cultural creators, but your focus should center on one of the seven named above.
The following questions are not a laundry list for you to answer in order. Rather, they are "starters" to get you thinking about how these literary texts operate. What is the effect of the MRF strategies your chosen writer uses? Why have the "old-fashioned" conventions of sense-making, coherence, and regularity been abolished in the work of these writers? How do the texts themselves work to make meaning? Is that meaning valuable, new, eye-opening, radical, etc. ?
Your single-spaced 1-2 page essay should have at least five paragraphs, a clear and focused central argument (thesis), and be free of casual mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. You can use the first-person voice (I, me, my), but remember that your job is to interpret the text itself. Don't get carried away with your thoughts and feelings (a little of this goes a long way), and don't fall into the trap of writing a rant: "Stein is just gibberish. I'd rather read the back of a cereal box or a set of instructions for my new IKEA bookcase. Blah, blah, blah."
Remember to use textual quotation.
Please use a serifed font (Times New Roman or Garamond are standard) and standard one-inch margins.
Your audience for this brief essay should be your classmates, not your professor. Write an essay that will persuade your classmates to agree with your position.
DUE: September 19, no later than 9:00 am. Upload to Populi. Late papers will be penalized a full point.
Questions: csmith@dcad.edu
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