Research Prompts for 11/6

Research Prompt 1

TBK: Imagery

Compile about twenty images that you feel reflect the events, images, mood, characters, and tone of the novel. Create a slide show of these images. Prepare notes that briefly explain how each image reflects the novel. Email the notes and slide show before class begins.

Research Prompt 2

TBK: Annotated Bibliography

From the list of articles and books in the bibliography I've created, http://vulgaranalysis.blogspot.com/2012/10/tbk-bibliography.html
choose one of the entries and create an annotated bibliographical entry for the chosen article or book. Be sure to pick a text that no one else has already annotated.

Purdue's OWL site provides examples and ideas about how to construct a bibliographical entry:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

Please complete and email before class starts.

Research Prompt 3

Beginnings and The Brothers Karamazov

Prompt 3

Read the first two pages of every chapters we've read so far. Make a chart that briefly outlines how each chapters begins.

Does it begin with dialog? Does it begin with an event or an action? Does it begin  en media res? Does it begin as thoughts in a character's head? Does it begin with physical descriptions? Does the chapter begin with an open conflict, a happy thought? Does the chapter begin with a narrator's words or reflections? What is the tone? Light? Sarcastic? Worried? Somber? Cold? Warm? Does the beginning include irony or symbolism? What topic is covered in these first two pages?

Finally, write a paragraph where you analyze the results of your research. Do you see any patterns? Which ones? How does Dostoevsky use the beginning of his chapter?

Email a digital copy of this chart to the instructor before the start of class.