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Gothic Fiction
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: Franzeska on April 14, 2008, 08:29:37 PM ---I don't think you can do one without doing the other. I'm sure you could do it for lots of other stories, but The Yellow Wallpaper is about a depressed woman who's driven mad by her doctor husband when she's locked in her room as part of a misguided medical procedure. If I were a professor reading a paper on this story that didn't mention gender (at least to the extent of mentioning why the author doesn't think it's significant), I might worry that my student had missed the gendered aspects entirely.
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There are lots of different ways to structure a paper like that. I'm pretty sure I could write an acceptable one without mentioning gender at all, but I could also write one bringing in the 19th Century fad of performing hysterectomies on women to "cure" hysteria, or the fact that madness, either congenital as in The Fall of the House of Usher, or brought on by the ever popular "brain fever", popped up in so many Gothic stories. I could also do one in convoluted run-on sentences like that. :) I once wrote an entire paper leaving out the vowel "i", just to see if it was possible. (e.g. "Once was done a whole essay, sans the vowel of 'oneness', just for laughs.")
Wolfhowls:
When it came to The Yellow Wallpaper, I stayed away from the gender role. I based it more on the fact that she was somewhat forced into solitude. And in that note I finished the paper but by all means keep talking about Gothic Fiction.
Wolfhowls:
Got my paper back today. Yeah I got dinged for no reason. She knocked 40 points off my paper for small gammar mistakes which was suppose to be only 20% of the grade on the paper. Content was 60% and I had tons of that. Eh Well you win some and you lose some.
Franzeska:
--- Quote from: The Wonderful Wolfhowls on April 29, 2008, 05:28:19 PM ---Got my paper back today. Yeah I got dinged for no reason. She knocked 40 points off my paper for small gammar mistakes which was suppose to be only 20% of the grade on the paper. Content was 60% and I had tons of that. Eh Well you win some and you lose some.
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Aww man, that really sucks. Did she say exactly what she was taking off for? At least you're probably nearly done with this class, right?
Wolfhowls:
--- Quote from: Franzeska on April 29, 2008, 05:57:44 PM ---Aww man, that really sucks. Did she say exactly what she was taking off for? At least you're probably nearly done with this class, right?
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Yeah she made a whole bunch points, but they were all small points. Not worth 40 points. Yeah I have two whole days left of the class.
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