December 16, 2011

2011文學作品讀法的Final Paper: 示範Outline

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The Awakening: a Dialogical Intertextuality of  Elegy and Film in Three Bildungsroman Movies
使用五段論證法 寫成一篇well-organized and fully-informed essay with careful documentation from the text or other references:
I. Introduction:
    a. hypothesis: the elegy employed in the current chosen films would trigger the protagonist's awakening and move himself to another phase of life
    b. approaches: Bakhtin's dialogical imagination and Kristeva's intextuality
    c. target texts: 3 respective elegies demonstrated in 3 bildungsroman films
II. Define Bildungsroman movies with three current chosen films:
    a. "Out of Africa"
b. "Dead Poet Society"
    c. "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
    d. How they connect to each other.
III. Define elegy with the 3 examples from the respective chosen films:
a. "To an Athlete Dying Young"
    b. "O Captain, My Captain"
    c. " Stop all the Clocks cut off the Telphone"
    d. How they connect to each other
IV. The thematic connection: the Awakening
    a. female awakening: remove herself from the bondage of womanhood
    b. juvenile awakening: from boyhood to adulthood
    c. male awakening: from boyhood to manhood
V. Conclusion

(female awakening) “To an Athlete Dying Young” in Out of Africa
(juvenile awakening) “O Captain, My Captain” in Dead Poet Society
(male awakening) “Stop all the Clocks Cut off the Telephone” in Four Weddings and a Funeral