Research Essay
Length: 2000 words; MLA format;
Research Requirement: Your paper will include information from at least two (2) scholarly
articles from refereed/peer-reviewed journals.
Instructions: Select one (1) of the following topics and write a clear and organized response
that is supported by evidence and that sustains a connection with the overarching course theme: analysing the ideologies, movements and theories that shape and define the modern age and our understanding of ‘modernity’.
Please note that there is no “correct” response. Your task is to construct an enabling thesis
which is then illustrated and supported by compelling, argumentation in the body
of your paper.
Topics: CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS
1. With specific reference to at least three (3) course readings, explain how the term/designation “colonialism” or “progress” or “civilization” is incorrect or, at the very least, insufficient when we are considering the characteristics of modernity and the modern age.
2. Ezra Pound proclaims “the artist is the antennae of the age”. Select a specific artwork (this can be a painting, sculpture, play, poem or novel/la) and subject it to rigorous analysis. Your task will be to explain, with specific connections to at least three (3)
readings, how the artist predicts, exemplifies and/or clarifies something foundational about modernity and the modern age.
3. An important theme in this course has been “the Other”: the sexes, estates, “races”, religions, nationalities, ages, and classes that have been excluded from or specifically targeted by the dominant narrative of modernity and the Modern Age. Explain how a more accurate historical and/or theoretical understanding of one specific “Other” can correct and extend traditional, Eurocentric “definitions” and “histories” of the Modern Age.
4. All definitions of the Modern Age agree that both the urban and the technological are not only defining characteristics but positive developments of modernity in the West. With reference to at least three (3) texts, analyse the benefits and the problems associated with either “the Modern City” or “Modern technology and progress”
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