(2016 final exam assignment)

Final Exam Model Essays 2016

Index to model essays

(authors listed alphabetically)
LITR 4370 Tragedy 

Model Assignments


Apollo & Dionysus 

Essay 1. Define "genre" + examples

Essay 2. Learning about Tragedy

Essay 3. Special Topics

Jeff Bell, On the Subject of Genre (fantasy)

Tyanna Beverly, Horror-Scoping

Michael Bradshaw, Kvothe: The Adventures of a Tragic Hero (fantasy)

James Cooper, Genre: What People Who Really Do Not Read Use to Find Books or Movies (post-apocalyptic fiction)

Angela Copper, Genre in General: A Look at Literature Classification through Anime

Rebecca Dyda, Horror freaks

Nikki Jones, The Little Genre That Could (Horror)

Tedra Mendoza, Blended Together (Grey's Anatomy as hospital drama)

Cassandra Parke, Genre as an Analytical Tool: Gaining Insight Into the Minds of Dystopian Novelists

Adrian Russell, Batman: The Tragic Hero

Ty Beverly, Tragedy: the Immortal Genre

Angela Copper, Complex yet Evocative: The Undying Art of Tragedy

Nikki Jones, Tragedy: Satisfying Our Innermost Need Since 458 BCE

Cassandra Parke, Tragedy: An Art of Unity

Adrian Russell, Life is Tragic

Special Topic # 1: Tragedy & Its Updates

Ty Beverly, Modern Tragedy: Now Suitable for All Families

Angela Copper, Tragedy and its Updates: Human Beings under the Microscope

Nikki Jones, Adaptation: What Changes as Literature Evolves?

Special Topic # 3: Families in Tragedy + The Oedipal / Electra Conflict

Jeff Bell, Incest is Just Relative: Coping with the Oedipal/Electra Conflict in Tragedy

Special Topic # 5. Classical Humanism and Judeo-Christianity or other religious traditions in Tragedy

Adrian Russell, The Benefits and Dangers of Religious Doctrines in Literature

Special Topic #7. Tragedy’s cultural and historical backgrounds

Rebecca Dyda, Tragedy’s cultural and historical backgrounds.

Special Topic # 9: Teaching Tragedy

Tedra Mendoza, Tragedy in the Classroom