1. Write an analysis
of a feature that interests you in Time Code. Your discussion should
focus on a single motif, scene, character, or topic in the film and not
attempt to cover the entire work. Be sure to discuss not only the content
of the film but the relevant formal techniques raised by your subject. Bring
in perspectives from the reading wherever possible.
2. Discuss the representation
of gender in Cryptonomicon.
3. Is Jazz a
postmodern novel? Drawing on our discussions, as well as our readings of
Baudrillard and/or Jameson, construct a strong argument on either side of
this question.
4. Compare the attitude
toward historical trauma in Middle Passage and The Shawl.
5. Discuss the treatment
of one of the following issues in Kadohata's In the Heart of the Valley
of Love: death, memory, community, or race.
6. Compare the perspectives
on multicultural identity in Middle Passage and In the Heart of
the Valley of Love.
7. A Philosophical
Investigation raises numerous issues of social policy in relation to
information and privacy. Discuss.
8. Analyze the role
of violence in either Cryptonomicon or A Philosophical Investigation.
9. Compare the treatment
of desire in Jazz and In the Heart of the Valley of Love.
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