Section 12: Zooming In and Out
Skills Focus: Purpose Identify a focus for your analysis—an anomaly, puzzle, or striking detail to addressSkills Focus: Purpose Establish a motive for your essay by identifying the puzzle or anomaly you will discuss and by articulating the question this puzzle raises—the question your essay seeks to answer
HW, part 1: “Reading" Finish watching the first season of Dear White People (episodes 8-10)
HW, Part 2: Online Discussion In the online discussion section of our canvas website, share your reactions to episodes 8-10 and your thoughts about the series as a whole. What do you make of the ending of the final episode of the season? How does it shape your understanding of the series as a whole?
Scholarly Essays about Shaw’s Pygmalion
- David Clare, “Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, and the Irish Diaspora,” New Hibernia Review, Vol. 18. No. 1, Spring 2014
- A. M. Gibbs, “The End of Pygmalion,” in The Art and Mind of Shaw: Essays in Criticism. (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1983)
- Timothy Vesonder, “Eliza’s Choice: Transformation Myth and the Ending of Pygmalion,” in Rodelle Weintraub, ed., Fabian Feminist: Bernard Shaw and Woman (Penn. State Univ. Press, 1977)
HW, Part 3 Here are links to a few academic articles about Shaw’s Pygmalion. Read the first 2-3 pages of each—just enough to determine the focus of each essay and the question the essay implicitly or explicitly promises to answer.