RJ Sepich
Narrative &
Technology
Final Project Proposal
(For Grading)
1. Bibliography
Ball, David M., and
Martha B. Kuhlman. The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of
Thinking. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2010. Print.
Freyne, Patrick.
"Chris Ware's Comic-book World." Review. The Irish Times [Dublin]
26 Sept. 2012: n. pag. LexisNexis Academic. 26 Sept. 2012. Web. 15
Apr. 2013.
Hamilton, Natalie.
"The a-mazing house: the labyrinth as theme and form in Mark Z.
Danielewski's House of Leaves." CRITIQUE: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction 50.1 (2008): 3+. Academic OneFile. Web. 17 Apr. 2013.
Toth,
Josh. "Healing Postmodern America: Plasticity and Renewal in
Danielewski's House of Leaves.” CRITIQUE: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction 54.2 (2013): 3+. Academic OneFile. Web. 17 Apr. 2013.
2. I
think in this essay, by comparing the houses in both Chris Ware’s Jimmy
Corrigan and Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves and
what it means about their views on what exactly the “home” is, I gave uncover a
better understanding of how these books are related in main ideas despite their
obvious differences. Although some critics might claim that it is a stretch to
compare a graphic novel to a more traditional (although very unique itself)
novel, I hope to prove that discussing similar aspects of these novels can be
beneficial for readers.
3. I
believe that there is quite a bit of information in chapter 3 of Herbert
Marcuse’s book One Dimensional Man that could help drive my
paper’s ideas along. “The corrosion of privacy
in massive apartment houses and suburban homes breaks the barrier which
formerly separated the individual from the public existence and exposes more
easily the attractive qualities of other wives and other husbands,” writes
Marcuse. This is one example of how the existence of the “home” in modern
society has been altered, and Marcuse seems to believe that increased sexuality
and other aspects of society that focus on material goods over core beliefs is
changing the way we live, which could fit perfectly into my paper somewhere.
4. I
plan on keeping most of what I wrote in the first draft because I feel like it
laid the groundwork for a very good longer essay that delves more into the
meaning of what the images of the disappearing houses in Ware’s and
Danielewski’s books mean rather than just descriptions of them. I think the
main purpose of this essay is to expand on what I think is a high-potential
idea with more research and more analysis to see what I can come up with.
1 comment:
I think that the use of chapter 3 in Marcuse is a good idea, and I certainly approve of using the original draft. The bibliography is good. Note, though, that your argument as such hasn't developed here - you're explaining why a *subject* interests you and why it should interest us, but that doesn't yet give us an argument worth pursuing. Nor is a comparison yet an argument - a comparison might be the starting point for an argument (with the comparison itself being either in or out of the body of the essay itself).
You will probably have an argument when you can answer this question: what does it mean, or why does it matter, that I can read the house in JC and the house in HOL in a similar way, using chapter 3 of Marcuse? If you can explain why we need to care, then you've arrived.
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