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Length: 1200-2000 words.
Format: MLA
My keystone text: The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter
Instructions:
Respond to one of the five prompts below in an essay that meets all these characteristics:
• a careful and well-developed critical analysis that
• quotes productively from Hintz and Tribunella PLUS two acceptable literary scholarly sources from the Recommended Reading lists;
• AND compares your keystone text with either Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim or with Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
• AND shows good familiarity with course content by referring to material from Modules 1, 2, 3, or 4 as well as Modules 5 and 6.
1. Hintz and Tribunella define ‘intertextuality’ as referring to the ways texts are composed of references to or elements of other texts. Compare your keystone text PLUS either Skim or The Graveyard Book in order to consider all of the characters, plots, settings, themes, or other details that seem to refer to similar elements in other texts. In what ways is the story a patchwork of other texts
What does understanding the texts in this way help you see that you did not see before
In your critique, remember to quote usefully from all five texts (your two primary texts plus two acceptable scholarly sources plus Hintz and Tribunella) and to show familiarity with course content.
2. How does your keystone text represent bodily change or pleasure, and how does either Skim or The Graveyard Book represent them
How do your two primary texts depict desire and its satisfaction
How can this be understood in terms of sex and sexuality
In your critique, remember to quote usefully from all five texts (your two primary texts plus two acceptable scholarly sources plus Hintz and Tribunella) and to show familiarity with course content.
3. Kimberley Reynolds argues that texts for young people can contribute “to the social and aesthetic transformation of culture” by “encouraging readers to approach ideas, issues and objects from new perspectives and so prepare the way for change” (Radical Children’s Literature 1). Explore your keystone text plus either Skim or The Graveyard Book in terms of how they participate in social and aesthetic transformations of culture. What do they say of what needs to be changed and how to make those changes happen
In your critique, remember to quote usefully from all five texts (your two primary texts plus two acceptable scholarly sources plus Hintz and Tribunella) and to show familiarity with course content.
4. In her definition of “young adult literature” Lee A. Talley quotes Raymond Williams’ definition of realism as ‘a description of facing up to things as they really are, and not as we imagine or would like them to be’ (230). She also describes young adult literature as “texts that challenge the status quo” featuring “characters who incisively expose society’s ills” (228). How far does your keystone text meet these descriptions
How far does either Skim or The Graveyard Book meet them
Which of society’s ills do they expose, and which aspects of the status quo do they challenge
In your critique, remember to quote usefully from all five texts (your two primary texts plus two acceptable scholarly sources plus Hintz and Tribunella) and to show familiarity with course content.
5. Transgressive situations and fear are both central elements of Gothic texts but can appear in other narrative forms. What roles are played by transgression and by fear in the shaping of the protagonist’s child identity in your keystone text and in either Skim or The Graveyard Book
How do the effects of transgression and fear alter the “resilience” associated with childness
In your critique, remember to quote usefully from all five texts (your two primary texts plus two acceptable scholarly sources plus Hintz and Tribunella) and to show familiarity with course content.