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English and Literary Studies Final Year Topic: Elegy and Public Mourning in Nigerian Poetry

This English and Literary Studies final year project examines the movement between personal loss and public remembrance in elegies. The proposed evidence base is six legally accessed Nigerian elegies selected through explicit inclusion criteria.

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Why choose this project topic?

This topic turns poetry criticism into a focused reading task by investigating the movement between personal loss and public remembrance in elegies. A clearly bounded corpus gives you passages to compare and an argument to develop beyond a general plot summary.

What does a close analysis of six legally accessed Nigerian elegies selected through explicit inclusion criteria reveal about the movement between personal loss and public remembrance in elegies?

Agree the corpus size, editions and critical framework for this study of the movement between personal loss and public remembrance in elegies with your supervisor.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the textual features relevant to the movement between personal loss and public remembrance in elegies.
  2. 02Build a documented evidence set from six legally accessed Nigerian elegies selected through explicit inclusion criteria.
  3. 03Examine address to the dead, naming and collective pronouns; compare tensions between grief and commemoration.

A suggested research approach

Obtain lawful access to six legally accessed Nigerian elegies selected through explicit inclusion criteria. Examine address to the dead, naming and collective pronouns; compare tensions between grief and commemoration. Establish selection criteria before detailed reading, record edition and page references, and test the developing interpretation against passages that complicate it.

What you will need

  • Lawful access to six legally accessed Nigerian elegies selected through explicit inclusion criteria
  • A reading matrix for the movement between personal loss and public remembrance in elegies
  • Relevant scholarly criticism and a consistent citation system

Keep your project scope clear

Literary mourning does not establish how every affected person experienced a death.

English and Literary Studies project chapter outline

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  1. Chapter 1General Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review and Theoretical Framework
  3. Chapter 3Analysis and Discussion
  4. Chapter 4Further Analysis and Findings
  5. Chapter 5Summary and Conclusion

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