Project work on a 20th century English or American writer (but also writers
from any other English speaking country)
Outline
The project work should include the following:
A short biography: main relevant events which influenced the writer’s literary production.
Main works: titles and short description of each, with relevant themes.
Modernist elements: which works contain which modernist elements? How and why are they relevant?
Meaningful extracts: one or more short relevant excerpts from the main works, plus commentary.
Commentary: critical appreciation on at least one work, both by well known critics and from a personal point of view on:
- Themes: fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work;
- Motifs: recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes;
- Symbols: objects, characters, figures, or colours used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
Overall opinion on writer.
You can add pictures, sound (music, songs, recordings) and video to your presentation, but also references to articles, books, films, web sites etc.
You will have to report to the whole class.