JR+Author+Notes

toc =JRP Authors:=
 * Here are notes which apply to your specific author ...**

Sherwood Anderson:
-Make sure you select specific stories from __Winesburg, Ohio__ as your primary sources. -Locate secondary sources on Anderson's prose style and apply this to __Winesburg, Ohio__.

John Updike:
-Focus your research on finding articles on approved primary sources. -NO NOVELS ... you didn't read __Rabbit, Run__, you don't get to write about something you didn't read. -Locate secondary sources on Updike's prose style and apply this to the short stories you are studying.

Ernest Gaines:
-Use specific events from his life to connect to trends & themes in his literature. -Use ONLY __A Lesson Before Dying__ as a primary source.

Edgar Lee Masters:
-Make sure you select specific poems from __Spoon River Anthology__ as your primary sources. -Use specific events from his life to connect to trends & themes in his literature. -As you locate your secondary sources, use these articles to craft which primary sources you will use in your paper.

Langston Hughes:
-As you locate your secondary sources, use these articles to craft which primary sources you will use in your paper. -Use ONLY his POETRY as your primary sources. -Be firm in which poems you select ... there is a large number of critical articles on Hughes ... you need to focus your search on the specific poems you plan on analyzing.

JD Salinger:
-If you plan to venture away from __Catcher in the Rye__, please make sure you have enough secondary source to support a research paper. -You should find a good number of articles that deal with Salinger's prose style ... apply this to his prose. -Use specific events from his life to connect to trends & themes in his literature.

TS Eliot:
-There should be a good deal of research on "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" ... find it. -Since he is cornerstone member of the "Lost Generation" there should also be articles which focus on this aspect of his writing, you may use this as well. -Please AVOID articles on __The Waste Land__ ... you haven't read it, it is dense, and it will only lead you in a million directions. Focus on Eliot's sty;e & theme and "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock."

L Frank Baum:
-When selecting an author outside the parameters of the academic year you will need to work harder than the rest of the class because we have not studied you author in class. -Make sure you do not get too caught up in a summary of the __Oz__ novels ... this is a research analysis ... not a summary. -Stay tied to a theme and idea in reference to __Oz__.

Ernest Hemingway:
-Make sure you select which specific primary sources (stories) you will be dealing with in your paper. -You should find a good number of articles that deal with Hemingway's prose style ... apply this to his prose. -There will be numerous articles on Hemingway's style ... try to stay focused on one or two aspects of his writing style. With Hemingway as a topic for your JRP you run the risk of just writing a summary if you try to bring in too much of writing style. Hold yourself to one or two aspects! -If you choose to cover __The Old Man and the Sea__ as a primary source, make sure you actually read it. If you haven't it will be clear to reader (that's me) that you are just doing a summary.

Kurt Vonnegut:
-First things first, you need to decide whether you will be attacking __SH5__ in your research paper. This is a major work and should have a good deal of critical analysis surrounding it, but you will to have actually read it. If you haven't it will be clear to reader (that's me) that you are just doing a summary. -Vonnegut's style covers a good deal of different topics (Sci Fi, black humor, satire) you CANNOT cover all of them. Please pin your research down to ONE (maybe two) of these topics. you don't want to get into theme summary. -Aside from SH5, there are a number of different Vonnegut short stories that we have covered in class, locate secondary sources on Vonnegut's prose style and apply this to the short stories you are studying.

Robert Frost:
-Many of you will be dealing with pastoral poetry (which is fine); however, you must make sure that the poetry you select by Frost matches the nature theme you plan exploring ... for example "Home Burial" is not based in nature; therefore, you shouldn't use this in your paper. -Please make sure that you select which poems you will be focusing on ... match secondary sources to primary sources. -You should find a good number of articles that deal with Frost's poetry style ... apply this to his poetry. -Please avoid being short sighted. Frost's poetry tended to deal with nature; however, he was not just a nature lover. Please deal with nature as a vehicle to examine humanity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne:
-In studying Hawthorne you will need to connect his literature to his views on Puritans. -Make sure you select the works of literature that we studied in class, you didn't read __The Scarlet Letter__, so you don't get to write about __The Scarlet Letter__. -Use specific events from his life to connect to trends & themes in his literature.

Edgar Allan Poe:
-When dealing with Poe it is particularly important to select your primary sources first ... since he was both a poet AND a writer of prose, you will need to make sure that you focus on what he wrote AND how he wrote. -If you are going to focus on his Gothic fiction make sure the stories/poems you select are actually Gothic in nature. -I know Poe's life was difficult ... please avoid writing a paper that is a summary of tragedy (You did that in a theme already this year). -Please do not attempt to write about his detective tales ... I know he invented the genre, but you didn't read any of those stories.

Joyce Carol Oates:
-Since we have only read "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" you will need to center your paper around this work. -You might be able to locate a couple of secondary sources on Oates' prose style and use this in your paper; HOWEVER, stay away from any secondary sources that deal with her novels. -Since many of you will want to bring Smitty back into the conversation, please be careful that you do not summarize events. Use this information only as a reflection of Oates style.

Arthur Miller:
-Most of you will be focusing on Miller' __Death of a Salesman__ ... you might also wish to use "Tragedy of the Common Man" (an essay by Miller) as another primary source. -You might want to focus your analysis on Miller's interpretation of both the American dream and his views on tragedy in literature ... there should be a good number of critical essays on this topic. -Please remember that I have read Death of a Salesman and do not need the plot summarized for me ... make sure your paper deals with the analysis of Miller, his style and the work itself.

Maya Angelou:
-Make sure you decide which poems you will be analyzing ... please do not write about poems that you did not study. -You should find a good number of articles that deal with Angelou's poetry style ... apply this to her poetry. -As you locate your secondary sources, use these articles to craft which primary sources you will use in your paper. -Be firm in which poems you select ... there is a large number of critical articles on Angelou ... you need to focus your search on the specific poems you plan on analyzing.

TC Boyle:
-Since we only studied "Greasy Lake" this year you will need to deal with this only ... unless, you find another short story and prove that you read it. -Use specific events from his life to connect to trends & themes in his literature. -NO NOVELS ... you didn't read __Talk Talk__, you don't get to write about something you didn't read. -As you locate your secondary sources, use these articles to craft which primary sources you will use in your paper.

William Faulkner:
-You shouldn't have a difficult time locating secondary sources on Faulkner ... however, you will need to be selective in the material that you use ... make sure your secondary sources match your primary sources. -Faulkner has a unquie writing style ... you may use one or two secondary sources that focus on Faulkner and his style. BUT NOT BIOGRAPHICAL essays. The sources should be driven by Faulkner's style. -Make sure you decide which short stories you will be analyzing ... please do not write about short stories that you did not study.