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English and Literary Studies Final Year Topic: Oral Praise Poetry and the Performance of Community Memory

This English and Literary Studies final year project examines how praise poetry selects and organises community memory. The proposed evidence base is consented recordings of one accessible praise-poetry tradition and contextual interviews.

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Why choose this project topic?

This topic turns oral literature into a focused reading task by investigating how praise poetry selects and organises community memory. 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 consented recordings of one accessible praise-poetry tradition and contextual interviews reveal about how praise poetry selects and organises community memory?

Agree the corpus size, editions and critical framework for this study of how praise poetry selects and organises community memory with your supervisor.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the textual features relevant to how praise poetry selects and organises community memory.
  2. 02Build a documented evidence set from consented recordings of one accessible praise-poetry tradition and contextual interviews.
  3. 03Transcribe selected performances with speakers' guidance and examine repetition, naming and audience response.

A suggested research approach

Obtain lawful access to consented recordings of one accessible praise-poetry tradition and contextual interviews. Transcribe selected performances with speakers' guidance and examine repetition, naming and audience response. 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 consented recordings of one accessible praise-poetry tradition and contextual interviews
  • A reading matrix for how praise poetry selects and organises community memory
  • Relevant scholarly criticism and a consistent citation system

Keep your project scope clear

Respect restrictions on recording and avoid treating one performance as the community's only history.

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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