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10-31-2004, 04:43 PM | #1 |
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Paper topics for English Lit
Any ideas? I need a topic for my term paper in English (British) Literature. I like things that are religious in some way...but that's not a must.
My brother wrote on imagery in some of T.S. Eliot's poetry back when he took this class. I was thinking about comparing Dorothy Sayer's and Agatha Christie's writing styles in their murder mysteries (the Lord Peter and Poirot ones). They both lived and published at the same time. Their style's are pretty different, I think. Could I find enough info for this topic? I am kind of at a loss for other ideas right now. My mom suggested Pilgrim's Progress: not the basic blatant imagery, but how it ties in with the ideas of the Protestant Reformation and such. Btw, last year (in American Lit) I wrote about the treatment of the church in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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10-31-2004, 11:37 PM | #2 |
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Dorothy L. Sayers is an excellent choice for British literature. If you have read her novels and Agatha Christie's, you could make the comparison in the specific realms of characterization, settings, and relationships. But you might prefer to stick to one and not try all. There are some excellent web sites if you search under her name. Do NOT forget that she produced an excellent translation of Dante's DIVINE COMEDY. She was also one of the first women to graduate OXFORD.
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Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 |
11-01-2004, 06:48 AM | #3 |
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How about comparing the Sil. (modern english "mythology") to Beowulf?
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Yeppers. I've read all of Sayer's novels and short stories (many times ) and some of Christie's. It seems like Christie's are just who-dun-its. Sayers has much more character development, underlying themes, etc. The mystery itself sometimes becomes merely a backdrop for everything else. Quote:
p.s. yes I know that Shrewsbury doesn't actually exist, lol
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Ah, Mercutio, a true Sayers afficianado! I am most delighted. Then you could consider the role of the Church of E in the novels and see how DLS depicts clergymen as a topic. Since her Father was a priest in CoE, her comportment in that literary department would be instructive and entertaining I think! If you should do DLS as a topic I should like to read it, if you would not mind!
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Brings to mind "The Nine Tailors," and Fenchurch St. Paul (I believe?--I haven't read that one in a while). I think it was one of the best. 3 of her books are based on a lot of info from her life: Murder Must Advertise (she worked in an ad agency for a spell), Nine Tailors (life growing up where her father was a vicar) and Gaudy Night (women's college at Oxford). I'm looking up books on the university website right now about Sayers/Christie.
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AH, THe Nine Tailors!! Remains one of my fav Whimsey novels! |
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One of my friends is doing his paper on Tolkien & Beowulf.
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Inked/Forkbeard--interested in reading my paper? It's in the final stages of revision right now . I'll post it later tonight (probably). Any suggestions you'd have would be helpful.
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but Shrewsbury most certainly does exist! it is a town in Shropshire, which is a county in england, between staffordshire and wales |
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Shrewsbury's Ladies College at Oxford, that is.
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oops!
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