Love, Gender, Loyalty, Race

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The term paper is an analytical argumentative paper in which you discuss a topic ortheme from one of the texts on our syllabus. This paper must be at least six full pages long. Makesure you cite extensively from the primary text and that you explain your quotes, that you give areading of them. Incorporate quotations from two journal articles, to support your argument.Dont use electronic sources, with the exception of articles accessed through the librarysdatabases JSTOR and LION. No websites, no matter how pretty they look or how handy theywere. I need you to use reliable material, and with many websites its just really hard to judgethat. Using the librarys databases is not as hard as you may think, and well talk about how to dothat.In this term paper you will delve into a theme in one of our textslook at how a singleissue (love, gender, loyalty, food, hair, race, etc.) is treated and valued. Make sure you citeextensively from your primary text and that you introduce and explain any quotes from primaryand secondary sources. Please submit a draft of the term paper by the date indicated on thereading schedule. If you dont, theres a grade deduction of ten pointsthat may sound harsh butthis is the kind of assignment that you just have to start early, and its worth 20% of the finalgrade. I will post a set of guidelines on Blackboard; for now let me just say Im looking forMLA-style formatting, 1" margins, 12-pt font. Books you can choose from 1.Laura Howe, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;Benjamin Foster, Gilgamesh;These Norton Critical Editions are available as one bundled set in the bookstore, ISBN9780393148220;2. Virgil - The Aeneid (Frederick Ahl, trans.; Oxford, 2007);3. The Lais of Marie de France (Edward J. Gallagher, trans.; Hackett, 2010);4. Dante Alighieri - Inferno (Allen Mandelbaum, trans.; Bantam, 1999);5. Sophocles - The Three Theban Plays (Robert Fagles, trans.; Penguin, 1984)6. Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (David Wright, trans.; Oxford, 2011)

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