Craft a Textual-analysis based paper that addresses the following two questions:
1) What is historical consciousness and how do its principles best translate into narrative?
2) how are such narratives shaped by time and space, structure and process?
In your response, you may want to draw from Gaddis’ use of metaphors related to landscape, visual representation, and/or Cartography.
Remember you goal is to illuminate and clarify Gaddis’ claims across the three chapters, and NOT TO PROVIDE YOUR OWN OPINIONS OF THEM.
Requirements:
You are required to work closely and thoroughly with material from all three chapters:
Chapter One: “The Landscape Of History”
Chapter Two: “Time and Space”
Chapter Three: “Structure and Process”
Be sure not only to quote directly from each chapter, but to additionally provide both context and analysis of the passages you’re working with.
Organization:
A successful paper will not only address the two questions from the prompt, but will do so in a well-framed, clearly organized response.
Do not attempt to write a “five-paragraph theme” essay. Instead, your particular mode of explanation should determine your paper’s best structure.
Working with the text text strictly according to chronologically is unlikely to be the best strategy.
Further guidelines:
Always discuss, analyze, and make arguments in the present tense. In terms of writing style, aim for clarity, brevity, and depth.
Cite each quoted passage from Gaddis’ book by including the page number, as in the following example: “The historian has got to strike a balance, and that means recognizing a trade-off between literal and abstract representation.”
Do not draw from any outside examples or refer to any outside texts. I any of the ideas or language are determined to come from and outside source, this will be considered plagiarism.
