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Choose from the following list for FINAL TERM PAPER
Your final paper will be a thematic overview of the chosen author's work using the selected work or works as examples of those themes you see. You must employ at least four distinct critical approaches. See Assignments 103 for more details.
- Lyric/Poetry
- Choose 3-5 works. Any band listed has various authors and author groups. Choose material written by the same author or author group. Pseudonyms are in parentheses following artist's born name if the artist published under given name. Cite accurately.
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Barlow, John Perry and Robert Weir
Beatles
Bowie, David
Cash, Johnny
Chapin, Harry
Crosby, David
Dickinson, Emily
Fogerty, John
Frey, Glen
Frost, Robert
Garcia, Jerry and Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead
Harper, Ben
Harrison, George
Hazlewood, Lee
Hendrix, Jimi
Henley, Don
Hughes, Langston
Hunter, Robert
Hunter, Robert
and Robert Weir
Ivey, Artis (Coolio)
Jackson, O'Shea (Ice Cube)
John, Elton
Jones, John Paul
Kamakawiwo'ole, Israel
Kantner, Paul
Kilcher, Jewel
Led Zeppelin
Lennon, John
Lennon, John and Paul McCartney
Lightfoot, Gordon
MacLean, Don
Marley, Bob
McCartney, Paul
Morrison, Jim
Nelson, Rick (Ricky Nelson)
Nelson, Willie
Nordine, Ken
Pink Floyd
Page, Jimmy and Robert Plant
Prine, John
Shakur, Tupac
Simon, Paul
Slick, Grace
Taylor, James
Townshend, Pete
Wainwright, Louden
Water, Roger
Wilson, Brian
Young, Neil
Other (must be approved by Instructor)
- Drama
- Choose 1 work. Some of these are scripted plays and some are movies. Some are listed by author, some by director, and some by producer. In any case, you MUST have a script as your primary source. Any author/director/producer listed without specific titles must be approved with instructor in advance.
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Bernstein, Leonard, and Stephen Sondheim (West Side Story)
Burton, Tim
Disney, Walt
Fellini, Federico
Leone, Sergio
Lumet, Sydney (Twelve Angry Men)
Lucas, George
Mamet, David (Oleanna)
Miller, Arthur (The Crucible, All My Sons, (Death of a Salesman)
Miyazaki, Hayao
Reiner, Rob
Rice, Tim and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rose, Reginald (Twelve Angry Men)
Shakespeare, William
Tarrantino, Quentin
Tornatore, Guiseppe (Cinema Paradiso)
Townshend, Pete
Wilde, Oscar (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Williams, Tennesee (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Other (must be approved by Instructor)
- Literature
- Choose 1 work. Make sure it is of sufficent length and complexity to complete the assignment.
Any author listed without specific titles must be approved with instructor in advance.
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Adams, Douglas
Andersen, Hans Christian
Asimov, Isaac (I Robot)
Bradbury, Ray
Bronte, Emily (Wuthering Heights)
Buchheim, Lothar-Gunther (Das Boot)
Bukowsky, Charles
Camus, Albert (The Guest, The Plague)
Chaucer, Geoffery (any 5 Tales from Canterbury Tales)
Child, Lee
Chopin, Kate (The Awakening or overview)
Conrad, Joseph (Heart of Darkness)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Brothers Karamazov)
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Gaiman, Neil
Geisel, Theodore Suess (Dr. Seuss)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. (The Yellow Wallpaper)
Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm
Hemingway, Ernest
Hill, Joe
Hillerman, Tony
Hunter, Evan (The Blackboard Jungle)
Hurston, Zora Neale (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
Kafka, Franz (The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony)
Kesey, Ken
Kingsolver, Barbara
King, Stephen
Kipling, Rudyard (The Jungle Book)
Larsson, Steig
McDonald, John D.
Morrison, Toni (Beloved)
Nesbo, Jo
Oates, Joyce Carol (Where are You Going...)
Perrault, Charles
Poe, Edgar Allan
Salinger, J.D.
Shelley, Mary (Frankenstein)
Sinclair, Upton (The Jungle)
Stoker, Bram (Dracula)
Swift, Jonathan
Tan, Amy
Twain, Mark
Vonnegeut, Kurt
West, Nathaniel (Miss Lonely Hearts and The Day of the Locust)
Other (must be approved by Instructor)
© T. T. Eiland, January 1998-2014
Last modified: June 24, 2014
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