This paper is meant to be both an essay and a close reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Earth’s Holocaust” through the eye of a literary, Eco-Critic. Therefore, the writer must be familiar with what that entails (i.e. know what literary eco-criticism is, and how to access literature like an eco-critic would). Also, the paper must have an annotated bibliography attached. The instructions for the bibliography are as follows: Your annotated bibliographies should be in MLA form, as per “Works Cited” page(s), with the addition of annotations for 8 out of the required 10-12 total sources. For the bibliography, the material should be primarily print-based (a few “born digital” journal articles from online-only journals are acceptable, so long as they are peer-reviewed and of high quality, but there shouldn’t be too many of those—maybe 2-3, tops, out of the 8), and, of course, all sources, print and digital, should be peer-reviewed. The annotations should be 2-4 sentences long, and do two things: briefly summarize the argument of the source, and, then, offer a tentative explanation of how the source will likely be used in the final essay.
Thus the annotated bibliography should be the evidence that they you have become familiar with the important scholarly conversations regarding whatever text you’re doing your final essays on.
Remember, your final essays will also need to be an application of one of the main theoretical approaches we’ve covered in the course, e.g., deconstruction, new historicism, psychoanalytic criticism, queer theory, reader response theory, etc. So, if you’re doing your final paper on Hawthorne’s “Ethan Brand,” for instance, you have decided on a psychoanalytic approach, the annotated bibliography would of course need to include both recent articles that supply readings of “Ethan Brand,” and, also include the major works of Hawthorne criticism that have taken a specifically psychoanalytic approach, e.g., Frederick Crew’s The Sins of the Fathers.
Here are some sources I have already found:
Berry, Peter. 2009. Beginning Theory an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press.
Hall, lawrence Sargent. 1996. Hawthorne Critic of Society. Gloucester Mass.: Yale Unversity Press.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. 1959. “Earth’s Holocaust.” In The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 400-412. Garden City ,New York: Hanover House.
Mcpherson, Hugo. 1969. hawthorne as Myth-Maker. Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Weston, Eunice Guy. 1952. Symbolism in the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Masters Thesis, Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta University Department of English.
It is important that the text Beginning Theory be used in the bibliography, however it doesn’t need to be annotated.
Here are some articles you may find helpful as well:
-“That Inward Sphere”: Notes on Hawthorne’s Heart Imagery and Symbolism Author(s): John W. Shroeder Source: PMLA, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Mar., 1950), pp. 106-119 Published by: Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/459458 Accessed: 16-04-2015 07:19 UTC
-The Manacles of Freedom: Theories, Practice and Individuality of Freedom in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
Ivan Lacko Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Department of English and American Studies, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Email: lacko@fphil.uniba.sk (pigs 187-192); Theories and Practice
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on English and American Studies
September 7–8, 2010 Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic
Edited by Roman Trušník Katarína Nemčoková Gregory Jason Bell
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