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Address the ways and means by which an author works to develop a particular character or the dynamics that exist between certain characters within a text.

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Assessments

This topic should be identified within the title of your essay. That subject and whatever contention you wish to make regarding that subject should be clearly defined in the introduction of your essay. The remainder of the essay should work to support that contention. As you do so, be sure to stay on topic and […]

Write a three-page paper that explores one or more of the “social and cultural forces” that have shaped Western civilization as manifested in the history of the printed book since the mid-15th century.

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Ambrose

In An Introduction to Book History, the authors cite Michael Winship’s contention that “literature is a human institution, part of a matrix of social and cultural forces from which it emerges, rather than a pure or abstract ideal, independent of history” (25). Based on your reading of Finkelstein and McCleery’s opening chapters, write a three-page […]