Apologies for not sending out a general notice in quite some time, but, as some of you know, Comedy papers have been trickling in these past few days and I’ve been responding to them, and my other two classes have been submitting papers as well. My inattentiveness is not due to slacking off. (Oh, how I wish!) Also, I’ve been trying to figure out some way for you all to fulfill something that was built into the curriculum but we obviously can’t do; that is, the group presentations of a “Method” of literary analysis about Frankenstein. Every time I thought of something I then thought it might be too taxing and unfair at this stage of the game, and I was sincerely quite impressed with the majority of both the Tragedy and Comedy papers that I thought most of you had “Got It!” with respect to organizing, constructing and writing way happening literary analyses.

But before I offer what I came up with let me start off by saying that if anyone has read Frankenstein, wants to read it, and wants to provide an individual “presentation” you can. (You’d really only need to read a little more than half of Frankenstein to accomplish it.) What I mean by that is that after you get through some of the book read one of the “methods” you’re interested in in the back of the book I assigned (Psychological, Marxist, Feminist). First, read the “What Is…” preface to whichever one you choose. Then read that essay. Then, write a couple of paragraphs summarizing what Marxist/ OR/ Feminist/ OR Psychological Criticism is, followed by a couple of more paragraphs summarizing the article, what the Marxist/ or Feminist, or Psychological critic wrote about Frankenstein.

If you’re not at all interested in that here’s what I’ve come up with, again, as a way for us to wrap up the “Methods” portion of the class:

1. You can talk around on the internet and find lots of explanations and definitions and even samples of all three of the methods we will discuss in class and you would have been doing your presentation on. in doing so find the one you like and or is the easiest to understand. so choose one and do your best to see if you get it, you understand it. ok so for the sake of argument let’s say you would have selected feminist. Next:

1. As a feminist critic” apply your knowledge to any darn “text” that you want and provide feminist critique or analysis. “Text” is in quotes because it really can be any darn thing, weather is green Eggs and Ham, star wars, The Hunger Games ( book and/movie), The Walking Dead, a Facebook page, Pride and Prejudice, beauty ads in cosmopolitan magazine, Bridget Jones Diary,……..anything! Heck, you can do it for what you’ve already read or watched for this class.

I hope that’s clear enough.

write two to three page double Spaced. ( remember, don’t summarise. Analyse, assume I have read The Little Engine that Could and I’ve seen Spider-Man XV.)