Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)
Using any set of longer texts from the schedule/reading list (reproduced below: you may also propose pairings of your own instead of using mine), demonstrate how the basic arguments Clausson makes re poetry are (or are not, or are some combination of) applicable equally to longer prose texts.
Show how the novels/plays of your chosen pairing are engaged in literary conversation, either directly (the newer reacting to the older) or about very similar ideas and social observations which are reacting not to a single earlier text but to a broad commonplace of social expectation/behaviour.
Paring:
Charlotte Bronte:
Jane Eyre (1847)
Jean Rhys:
Wide Sargasso Sea (1967)
Using any set of longer texts from the schedule/reading list, demonstrate how the basic arguments Clausson makes re poetry are applicable equally to longer prose texts.
