Georgia Institute Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov Analysis Essay This paper is first and foremost an interpretive essay, to be based on caref
Georgia Institute Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov Analysis Essay This paper is first and foremost an interpretive essay, to be based on careful analysis and close reading. Your paper must analyze the novel Invitation to a Beheading.
Your paper should have a thesis which should be
1) supportable — with detail, illustration. In regard to a literary work, this most often means quotations, in regard to film, specific descriptions. If you are referencing a film and include screen shots to support verbal descriptions, refer to them by number and include them as an appendix rather than breaking up the text of the paper.
2) arguable (not obvious)
3) meaningful, not trivial, should say something of interest
In general,
1) avoid generalizations, especially in the introduction, which should be brief
2) you shouldn’t need research for this paper (although it is not, of course, forbidden). If you do research, make sure you cite your sources. Unvetted websites (like Wikipedia) are not generally credible and accurate sources. You can use any clear system of citation which will allow the reader to easily find and reference your sources.
Quotations should be kept to the length or brevity necessary to support your argument. Individual words and phrases can be woven into the texture of the argument. Quotations longer than a full sentence should most often be the object of analysis, as opposed to serving as the illustration of a claim. A good paper should develop and complicate its argument/thesis over the course of the paper. Your goal is to present the most sophisticated, precise, nuanced understanding of the work and the question you have raised — not to “prove” a point chosen at the outset, be well-written and proofread. Be careful to cite its sources
Target length is 5-6 pages (double-spaced Times New Roman 12 or Arial 11 with reasonable margins).
The link to access the text is:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.5907…
