Comparative Studies 3603 Essay Assignment
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Comparative Studies 3603 Essay Assignment
Final Exam—Comparative Studies 3603 –Early Release (Additional questions and directions may be added before the Exam Review day.)
For the final exam, choose 3 of these questions to answer in short form (about 1 page, typed single spaced 12-point times New Roman font with 1” margins), utilizing 2 or more texts discussed during the term to illustrate your point. Focus mainly on the 2nd unit of class. Then choose a 4th question to answer in long form (at least 2 pages typed single spaced 12-point times New Roman font with 1” margins), utilizing 3 or more texts from class. This portion can focus on the class as a whole. Any question may be answered in either form, but you must answer the first question. Clearly indicate which question you are answering. No extra credit will be given for additional or longer answers. Turn in a printed, stapled version by the due date as directed. Should you wish to propose a variant on this exam, schedule a meeting with me to establish a plan and an agreement about length and number of questions. Otherwise, turn it in as it is described here.
(Please note: Answers given on the midterm duplicated on the final will be treated as academic misconduct. Submit only newly produced essays for this exam.)
Questions
1) Give a brief sketch of the thesis of any one of our theorists. How can this be usefully applied to The Pickup or God of Small Things? * [You MUST ANSWER this question in either long or short form.]
2) Several times throughout the term we have sought to understand love by looking at what is not love (or what is warped or twisted love). To what extent is this approach useful to analysis of the subject from a global perspective? To what extent does it hinder productive cross-cultural inquiry? Use examples from the texts to illustrate your points.
3) Use examples from the texts we have read to analyze the relationship between personal identity, cultural identity and love relationships with which our authors grapple. (You may wish to choose 2 characters and discuss the ways in which their identities determine the ways they give and receive love. Do their identitites change or solidify as a result of love? Is a strong stable sense of self necessary for love or does love inevitably change who one is?.. these are just some possibilities you might consider in answering the question.)
4) Thinking about the binaries our authors so far are negotiating, is there one that stands out to you to be particularly informative about the nature of love? What is it, what are some of our authors’ claims about it, and what meaning do you derive from comparing these claims?
5) Comment on the differences and similarities between cultures when it comes to love as represented in several of the texts we’ve read or watched this term. That is, to what degree is it useful to think of love as a universal human concept, and to what degree is it important to respect the particularity of concepts about love and its expression in different parts of the world?
6) Many of the authors we read in this class are in conversation with one another, either explicitly or implicitly. Describe one productive line of inquiry (i.e. authors building a further point off of others’, authors arguing against each other) or, if you would rather, put them into conversation now. What would they say to each other concerning each other’s formulations?
7) Trace a strand of a claim or theme about love (or directly conflicting ideas about love, for example: can a person deserve or earn love? does nostalgia affect love? what’s the relationship between love and cultural institutions?) through multiple texts we’ve read or watched this term. What insights have you developed from noticing this pattern?
8) What is the most insightful new idea or new question you have about love as a product of our extended inquiry? How did you develop it? Cite specifics from the texts.
9) The second half of this class was designed to investigate ideas about love in the world by looking at literary representations that examine conflicts and/or issues of culture, identity, and society as it relates to love relationships. Which text or texts did you find most useful for your own exploration and why?
Bonus question to meet length requirements (optional, 1/2 page or less): Which presentation (other than your own) gave you the most insight into love and how did it do that?