Paper Topics needed

[juldea]

Attention one and all!

I have spoken with Dr. Goble, and to finish my Letters capstone I either need to write two of the papers I failed to write in class (one analyzing a movie's message, one analyzing a book excerpt for characteristics of writing) OR one paper on a topic of my choosing that I clear with him.

So, what should my topic be? Should I analyze some other book/movie? Help me think of something, because I kind of don't want to do those previous topics.

Comments

[siderea]

What was the movie and what was the book?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Movie (also play): Wit
Book: The Path to Power (biography of Lyndon Johnson) by Robert Caro

[siderea]

It would be easier to make recommendations if I knew (1) What the point of the class was (2) why you didn't like the choices you had (3) what your tastes in art were. :)

I mean, really do go around thinking things like "This would make a great English class assignment" -- for instance, there's a little undergrad paper on race in "The Scorpion King", but I know neither whether that would qualify, nor whether you have the nerve to pass it in. :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

(1) 4503 Letters Capstone Course. Prerequisite: senior standing in major. Students write a senior paper or papers on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor. Papers will demonstrate students' abilities to synthesize material drawn from among two or more of the areas included in the Letters program (http://www.ou.edu/cas/classics/Lettersdegree.htm). (Link goes to what the Letters program is.)

(2) I didn't feel a desire to write specific things about the topics provided, and I have major writer's block when I'm not invested in the topic. Yeah, it's kind of whiny, but since I'm given the opportunity to come up with new topics, why not?

(3) I don't like Victorian-era novels (Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen), I do like sci-fi, fantasy, philosophical fiction (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Crime and Punishment) and very odd stuff (Tom Robbins).

I guess for more on (2) I also am very perfectionist, and don't feel like I should write something if I don't have something to say about it that's worth saying. That's given me block on many, many occasions.

[christhegeek.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the 10 page paper I did on the movie Being There, with Peter Sellers. You can cover a lot of ground, analyzing that movie.

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

You could analyze Fight Club. The book and/or the movie. That would probably be fun.

[adalius.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I was thinking before I even read the comments.

[siderea]

Why bother? The acme of cogent analysis of Fight Club -- or should I say, Calvin and Hobbes -- has already been attained:

http://www.metaphilm.com/philms/fightclub.html

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

Heehee. That's great.

Hey!

[(Anonymous)]

HEY! Where's the credit here?!

Glad it worked out for you...you never got back to me on whether or not it did.

-Ian Goodknight

Re: Hey!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Cuz you disappeared. :P

Re: Hey!

[(Anonymous)]

No, I just quit writing. I never disappear. :P