Case Study
Case Study
 
  For this paper I had to choose a text from any genre and write a paper from the perspective of at least one literary theory.  I had recently written a summary of an article, which argued Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness functions as feminist discourse. Immediately, I connected the argument of this article with Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.  So I submitted my proposal. The proposal was approved, yet the professor believed I would be taking more of a feminist/psychoanalytic approach than a feminist/deconstructivist approach.  I read the book over again, making a rough outline of passages that pertained to patriarchal, archetypal, feminine, and psychoanalytic images. Along with this outline, I included the page numbers to crosscheck the references for contextual validity of my arguments.