Describe one place in the article where the author cites and responds to another scholarly source
Oedipus the King was written in approximately 429 B.C.E. about events that occurred hundreds of years before then. Fences was first produced on Broadway in 1987 about events that occurred in approximately 1957. Yet each play is still read and appreciated today. Discuss each play’s timeless qualities, or in other words, each play’s relevance to our lives in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
August 2, 2019In August Wilson’s Fences, are Troy’s problems self-created or is he a victim of circumstances far beyond his control?
August 2, 2019Describe one place in the article where the author cites and responds to another scholarly source
Question Description
For this short research assignment, first learn to navigate the Library databases and find one article written about either Sophocles’ Oedipus the King or Susan Glaspell’s Trifles. The article you read must be from an academic journal (more on this below). Find an article that interests you and one that you can handle (some can be quite difficult, so choose one you can understand well). Then write a response to each of the following: 1. Summarize the article in 3-5 sentences. 2. Describe one place in the article where the author cites and responds to another scholarly source (that is, an example where the author refers to what another author has written about Oedipus the King or Trifles). 3. Explain how the article responds to the source. Does the author agree? Disagree? Or both agree and disagree? (See Graff/Birkenstein’s “Chapter Four: Three Ways to Respond” assigned this week for more about how to respond to a source). Describe in a paragraph (5-7 sentences in length) how effectively you think the author responds to the source.
