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Early in the semester, you will have to choose a research topic. This will requ
Early in the semester, you will have to choose a research topic. This will require that you set aside some time to peruse the choices listed below. All the primary texts for this project have been included in this module. To get started, I recommend that you read completely Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth and then reread each chapter as we move through the various course sections during the semester.
The next step in the process is to compile an annotated bibliography, which can be very useful tool in composing the initial and final draft of your term paper.
Choose one of the following. Support all assertions, claims, inferences, theories, and arguments with details, examples, and evidence from the narrative sources referred to below as well as from secondary sources.
Karen Armstrong tells us that myth is an art form. She adds, “Any powerful work of art invades our being and changes it forever.” Evaluate the effectiveness, then, with which a novel such as My Antonia has taken over from religion the priestly function of instruction in mythical lore by providing the requisite transformative experience.
Analyze the way in which Twelfth Night reflects a shift away from the Post-Axial values of the Middle Ages.
Evaluate the effectiveness with which Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night forces us to go beyond our experience and connects us with what is timeless in human existence, thus exemplifying the process by which art has taken over from religion the priestly function of instruction in mythical lore.
Evaluate Goethe’s efforts to stave off the death of mythology: In what ways does Faust (Part One) reflect a break with the spirit of the Enlightenment, i.e., a break with decorum in favor of free artistic expression, a break with reason (logos) in favor of greater emotion or feeling?
Alan Watts once said that in the Court of Heaven, Lucifer is the district attorney. What role does Mephistopheles play in the larger cosmological context of Goethe’s Faust (Part One), and is it consistent with Watts’ observation?
Locate (and read) a copy of The Iliad and analyze its qualities as a proto-tragedy in Aristotelian terms.
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