Irvine Valley College / Fall 2012

Marjorie C. Luesebrink, M.F.A., Professor

Literature 45  -- Women in Literature

Take-Home Final Exam 

I hope that your reading and studying the lectures, research for your class project, and further explorations have been enjoyable and rewarding.  

This class is structured so that you can pass the class with a Credit/NoCredit grade with your Weekly Posting and the Research Paper, only.  However, if you wish to have enough points for a letter grade, you will also need to do the take-home final exam essay.  (See grading policies for further information.)

The Final is a short essay on a topic of your choosing from the List of Lectures below.  It will be due on Wednesday, December 12, 2012.  Please e-mail your essay to me (or you can bring the hard copy to my office). 

Here is what you will need to do for the Take-Home Final essay.  First, take a look at the topics below.  These represent areas that we have covered in class.  I would like you to select ONE of these topics and write an essay that answers this prompt:  "What three aspects of this topic do you think are most important to the development of literature by women and why?"  Please use quotes from the writers we have studied and give concrete examples.  This essay should be 1000 to 2000 words long.  

  1. Images of Women in Literature
  2. Women Writers Through the Ages
  3. Women and the New World
  4. Aphra Behn and the proto-novel
  5. Science and Fiction
  6. The Novel and the Middle Class
  7. Romance and the Romantics
  8. The Gothic world of the Bronte Sisters
  9. Late Victorian Scribblers
  10. The Modern Novel
  11. The Contemporary Novel
  12. Other Voices
  13. The Electronic Frontier
  14. Women of the Web
 

If you have any questions, please Contact me.

      

Literature 45  - Women in Literature :  

Marjorie C. Luesebrink, MFA


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