From your studies, you have seen how culture, belief systems, and exposure to the arts affect the way people view the world. Learning about these differences in perspective helps us to have a better understanding of what it means to be human. When we understand and value the humanistic point of view, we bring creative solutions and fresh new ideas to the challenges we face in our personal and professional lives. We are schooled in the fundamentals of close analysis, critical thinking, and teasing out the complexities of issues which have no simple right or wrong answer.
In this task, you will write an analysis ) of one work of literature. Choose one work from the list below:
Classical Period
� Sophocles, Antigone, ca. 442 B.C.E. (drama)
� Ovid, �The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel,� an excerpt from Book 1 of The Metamorphoses, ca. 2 C.E. (poetry)
Middle Ages
� Chaucer, �The Pardoner�s Introduction,� �Prologue,� and �Tale� from The Canterbury Tales, ca. late 14th century (frame tale/poetry)
� Marie de France, �The Lay of Sir Launfal,� ca. 1175 (lay/poetry)
Renaissance
� Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ca. 1601 (drama)
� Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the first 7 paragraphs of the �Oration on the Dignity of Man,� ca. 1486 (essay excerpt)
Baroque
� Jean Baptiste Racine, Phaedre, 1677 (drama)
� John Donne, �Batter My Heart,� ca. 1633 (sonnet)
Enlightenment
� Phillis Wheatley, �To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing his Works.� 1773 (poem)
� Alexander Pope, �A Little Learning is a Dang’rous Thing� from An Essay on Criticism. 1711 (poem)
Romanticism
� Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. 1818 (novel)
� John Keats, �Ode to Autumn� 1819 (poem)
Realism
� Edith Wharton, House of Mirth. 1905 (novel)
� Alfred Lord Tennyson, �Tears, Idle Tears.� 1847 (poem)
Modernism
� Zora Neale Hurston, �Sweat.� 1926 (short story)
� George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion. 1912 (drama)
Postmodernism
� Maya Angelou, �Still I Rise.� 1978 (poem)
� Louise Erdrich, “The Plague of Doves.” 2008 (Chapter 1, from the novel, The Plague of Doves.)
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