Examining Features of Genre and Movement
This semester, we’ve covered the literary periods of Realism, Modernism, and Contemporary.
Within each of those periods, we have also studied specific genres or movements. For each of these, we examined a particular story considered to be representative of the genre/movement in some way. Look back at the chapter introductions in your book and your class notes to refresh yourself on those.
Choose one of the stories we’ve studied so far this semester to write about.
Now write at least 750 words examining how this piece of literature exhibits features of the literary genre or movement in relation to which we studied it. Put another way, what makes this piece representative of this genre or movement?
In order to accomplish this, think of this paper as having 2 major components: textual analysis and literary genre knowledge.
