ENGL 701; Rutledge
September 9, 2013
Research Questions: Group II
Note: remember to check all relevant sources; some may be listed for earlier question sets.
1. You want to build a list of early works by and --preferably contemporary--works about Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats, and John Millington Synge. Under what rubrics do you find your material? What does this suggest about the status of genres in the editors' reckoning?
2. You are beginning the preliminary work on musical versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. In which of the sources can you find a listing of such works, and in which formats do they occur ? Are any accessible in libraries within a 75-mile radius of our area?
3. In which of this week's sources can you extend your information gleaned for question #5 from Research Questions: Group I? What do you find for the last five years?
4. Harner suggests that the most obvious source in the current set for biographical information suffers from biases, silences, and gaps in its earliest version. Test this assertion using Walter Pater and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Examine other scholarly sources in this set of sources and the previous set, and specify the kinds of details not available in the earlier source.
5. How many studies focusing on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land were published outside of journal literature between 1990 and 2012? Is there any significant cluster of dates, and how might one account for this detail?
6. In an article about the state of contemporary science fiction (SF--not "sci-fi"), you find references to the fiction of James Tiptree. From what sources in the reference set can you find specific information about this author, and what do you learn? Which sources are the most up-to-date? Are any of the sources signed? Do any direct you to other resources?