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Author, time period/movement, how does the work impact the movement, or how does the movement impact the work? , style of the work

For this research paper, your objective is to research how an author’s background and time period impact his or her style in a specific work. You will need to choose an author and one of his or her works to feature in your research. This work will be your primary focus, and you should use the work to prove the literary contribution your author has made.

This assignment is not a biographical assignment. You may devote one paragraph to the biographical basics (where the author was born, schools attended, etc.); however, this should not be the primary focus of your research. Your primary focus should be the literary contribution your author has made. Why is the author still being studied today?

Author Questions

 Did the author’s childhood experiences impact the work?

 What literary contributions did the author make?

 Why is this author still being read today?

 What writers influenced your author?

 What stylistic elements is your author known?

Time Period/Movement Questions

 How did the time period in which the author live affect his work? What was happening in art, music, culture, and politics?

 How does the work help us understand the society of the time?

 How did your work lead to societal reforms?

 Why did the author choose to address a particular event, issue, or aspect in the society of the time?

 How does the work relate to a particular cultural movement (realism, civil rights, etc.)?

 What types of genres and styles were written at the time by other authors? What genres were popular?

 How did the work change the society’s perception of itself?  How did the author’s work play a role in the evolution of the century or decade?

Text-Specific Questions

 The answers to the following question should not be summary of your work.

 Provide specific examples of your author’s style. Include at least 5 specific quotes from the book.

 What patterns are present in the work of your author?

 What recurring images and motifs are preset in the work, and what is their significance?

 What is the theme of the work?

 Why did your author choose to use a literary technique such as an allegory or symbolism in their work?

 What universal themes or ideas are present in this work?

 Identify two different interpretations of the work or a specific element of the work.

Authors and Suggested Works

The Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Geoffrey Chaucer

 William Shakespeare

 John Donne

 Ben Jonson

The Restoration

 John Milton

 Jonathan Swift

 Alexander Pope

 Mary Wollstonecraft

The Romantics  William Blake

 William Wordsworth

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Lord Byron

 Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Mary Shelley

 John Keats

The Victorians

 Lord Alfred Tennyson

 Robert Browning

 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 Gerard Manley Hopkins

 Matthew Arnold

 A.E. Housman

 Rudyard Kipling

The Modern World

 Wilfred Owen

 T.S. Eliot

 Virginia Woolf

 George Orwell

 Nadine Gordimer

 Chinua Achebe

 William Butler Yearts

 James Joyce

 D.H. Lawrence  Seamus Heaney

 Katherine Mansfield

 W.H.Auden

 Dylan Thomas

Others

 Wordsworth

 Jane Austen

 Margaret Atwood

 Bronte Sisters

 Dorothy Wordsworth

 Tolkien

 C.S. Lewis

 Sir Arthor Conan Doyle

 Lewis Carol

 Agatha Christie

 Aldous Huxley

 Oscar Wilde

 Robert Lewis Stephenson

 Mary Robinson

 Charlotte Smith

 Joseph Conrad

 Thomas Hardy

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