Monday, October 20, 2008

Jungian Criticism in Practice

Archetypal images and patterns are some of the key points in applying Jungian criticism. Follow this link to get an excellent example of Jungian criticism in literature.

http://www.ljhammond.com/phlit/burke.htm

Thursday, October 16, 2008

The application of psychoanalysis on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

You have seen briefly how psychoanalysis works with literature through Freud's own analysis on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now it's your turn to show how another literary work, in this case, Jane Eyre, is approached by means of psychoanalytic criticism.

Discuss the article I uploaded in the previous post with your group, and place your summary as the result of your discussion. Your work is due on Saturday, October 18, 2008.

Research Questions

Research questions are made to help you direct your research. On the basis of your topic, write the research questions you would like to answer in your thesis. The questions should be operational and answerable. Do not write questions which you yourself cannot answer, or don't know how to answer. For instance, a topic on Depression in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina could be specified into the following questions:
1. How is depression depicted in Anna Karenina?
2. What are the causes of depression in Anna Karenina?
3. What are the effects of depression in Anna Karenina?

The above questions are operational because they are more specific than the statement of the topic. They are also answerable because there are some psychological concepts that can be used as the theoretical framework to answer the questions.

Click comment to submit your revised title(s) and research questions!