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English and Literary Studies Final Year Topic: Urban Precarity and Everyday Humour in Nigerian Short Fiction

This English and Literary Studies final year project examines how humour frames precarious work and housing in urban stories. The proposed evidence base is a rights-cleared corpus of six Nigerian short stories with urban settings.

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Why choose this project topic?

This topic turns short-story studies into a focused reading task by investigating how humour frames precarious work and housing in urban stories. 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 a rights-cleared corpus of six Nigerian short stories with urban settings reveal about how humour frames precarious work and housing in urban stories?

Agree the corpus size, editions and critical framework for this study of how humour frames precarious work and housing in urban stories with your supervisor.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the textual features relevant to how humour frames precarious work and housing in urban stories.
  2. 02Build a documented evidence set from a rights-cleared corpus of six Nigerian short stories with urban settings.
  3. 03Classify comic situations and compare their placement with descriptions of work, housing and unequal power.

A suggested research approach

Obtain lawful access to a rights-cleared corpus of six Nigerian short stories with urban settings. Classify comic situations and compare their placement with descriptions of work, housing and unequal power. 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 a rights-cleared corpus of six Nigerian short stories with urban settings
  • A reading matrix for how humour frames precarious work and housing in urban stories
  • Relevant scholarly criticism and a consistent citation system

Keep your project scope clear

A purposive story corpus cannot establish the prevalence of urban hardship.

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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