ALL SOURCES MUST BE IN ENGLISH AND EASILY ACCESSIBLE “You will complete a 2250-2500 word literary analysis (not counting the works cited
page). This literary analysis must focus on one work, author, or literary
period covered in the assigned readings prior
to the submission of the paper. You must rely on a mimimum of 7
scholarly sources in addition to the literary text(s) you analyze.
In this research
paper, you will interact with the periods, authors, and ideas covered in the
literary selections you will be reading. This assignment should not select
literary works from the Ryken or Veith books. Rather, you should focus on a
specific literary work or author assigned in the course (Chaucer, Dante
Alighieri (Inferno), Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theolgiae), Anselm of Canterbury
(Proslogion), The Syrian: Pearl (Hymns 1-7) Tertullian (The Apology Parts 1-3)
for example) OR you may choose to research a particular period of literary
history (the Middle Ages, for example).
To analyze means
to break down the subject of study into its constituent parts to show how it
functions in a specific way. In this analysis, you will support an arguable
claim about how the literary work or time period works in form and content. Your
approach can range from a focused analysis of a literary work to a broader
analysis of the shared literary forms of a specific time period.”
