Submit either Assignment One or Assignment Two (required length: TWO pages)
Assignment One
Choose a Post-Modern work from the assigned readings and do the following:
1. Explain how the narrative indicates the Post-Modernism tendency toward Existentialism.
2. Use the text to cite specific examples for support of your explanation.
Assignment Two
Choose a Post-Modern work from the assigned readings and do the following:
1. Explain how the narrative indicates the Post-Modernism elements of Anti-Mimesis and/or the Anti-Hero.
2. Use the text to cite specific examples for support of your explanation.
Instructions:
Rd: Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” (PDF), Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” (pp. 507-09), Ann Sexton’s “Her Kind” (p. 511), Frank O’Hara’s “Ave Maria” (pp. 525-26), Adrienne Rich’s “Diving Into the Wreck” (pp. 513-15), Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” (pp. 444-59), John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” (pp. 475-84), and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” (PDF)
Support your observations and comments by quoting appropriate words, phrases, sentences directly from the work(s) you are analyzing.
Remember to always follow a quotation with an explanation of how it supports your interpretation.
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