Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Final Project

Create a PowerPoint presentation, or a 7-10 page paper that responds to the following prompt.

Do writers of the Transcendentalist period contribute to the making of a hegemonic or counter-hegemonic culture?

Choose two authors we have read for our unit on Transcendentalism to compare and contrast. Utilize pieces written by your authors, biographies of your authors, and other historical sources to support your conclusion.

Make sure you:
• Choose passages in authors’ writing that support your thesis, and discuss how they do so.
• Share some details or events of that historical time frame that have informed your authors’ ideas, arguments, or perspectives.
• Discuss any concepts, ideas, and details explored by your authors that are prevalent in today’s society.
• Draw connections between Gramsci’s discussion on superstructural institutions and the details of your authors’ pieces.
• Identify your authors’ statuses as either organic or traditional intellectuals, during the time of their writing.
• Draw connections between Gramsci’s ideology of spontaneous consent and details or themes in your authors’ pieces.


You must utilize at least one new piece written by at least one of your authors (or you may read additional chapters of Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, if you choose Jacobs) as a source.

This final project is due Monday May 5th.

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