Research Projects

Research Projects (due for Winesburg , Ohio and Rule of the Bone relating to the study of novels are meant to do some of the following things (a ) Analyse in depth the available scholarship on the novel (s so as to be able to say whether much is still to be done , or to make a comparative evaluation of the existing material in the field (b ) Study the form and technique used in a novel or set of novels in to bring to the reader the best possible ways of entering the world of the

br text (s ) and appreciating the novels in question (c ) Make observations on the practice /analysis of the reading of the kind of novel selected In this category the making of novel-summaries would be a significant criterion (d ) Making annotated bibliographies for future research on the subject

The use of scholarly journals , books , the internet questionnaires , handouts , interviews , etc . would be required in such research projects and of course the familiarity with MLA and other style formatting and referencing . Readers and their understanding of novels would help in the project . Readers often recreate novels and are the real owners of the novels ' meanings

No project on the novel can be achieved without making a survey of the theories of fiction available right from the ideas of Henry James , Percy Lubbock E .M . Forster , and Frank Kermode to begin with . In the second set of authors , Wayne C . Booth would figure in a significant way among the...