Final paper

For your final paper you have three options:

  • discuss one visual work of art in relation to one episode in the Divine Comedy
  • compare two visual works of art representing the same scene of the Divine Comedy
  • analyze one recurrent theme of the Divine Comedy

Instructions:

  • Length: your paper will be a post of 2-3,000 words and contain one or two images, a link to an external source and a reference to an article or other secondary source (at least one).
  • Structure: you can introduce the artist that took inspiration from Dante in no more that 3-4 sentences. Your paper will focus on the artistic representation rather than on the author’s biography. In your introduction you have to express a thesis statement and roughly say how you are going to demonstrate it. The body of your essay is devoted to this demonstration and uses textual evidence from the Divine Comedy and secondary sources in support of your claim. Your conclusion will reinforce you claim, by drawing on the majority of your points.
  • Language accuracy: This is an academic essay, even though it will be published in the form of a post blog.
  • Visual aspect: The advantage of blogging is that we can render our post interesting with visual elements. I will appreciate a sense of order and clarity (even in the layout).

Timeline:

  1. By the end of April you will email me (or write in a post) the topic of your final paper.
  2. You will bring a proposal of your paper to class on May 1 for peer-review. You will show a picture/slide to the class representing the topic of your paper. The class has to be ready to ask questions and give suggestions.
  3. You will bring a hard copy of an outline of your paper (introduction, questions to be addressed and thesis statement, and bibliography you believe you will use to write the paper) on May 8. We will peer review the outline.

 

  • Useful resources:

a) In the Page PDFs I uploaded useful articles on various topic. 

b) Books available at Hunter. Please be considerate and do not check out these books so that your peers can consult them as well.

 

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