I just started going back to school after a 20 year break. I'm currently taking an intro to literature class and have to do a group project on Edgar Allan Poe. Nobody in my group seems to want to work on it and I am at a lose as to what to do. I'm looking for some suggestions on how to do this. It has to be about 20-30 minutes long and can't be a biography. I would appreciate any suggestions anybody has.
I'm not looking for someone to do this for me, I'm just trying to get some suggestions of what I could do. I really would appreciate some basic ideas. The only idea i have is to do a Poe version of the reduced Shakespeare comedy, but i don't really know even close to enough about Poe to do something like that.
What kind of ideas are you looking for? Something creative or something more in the lit-crit vein? Because then you could choose a theme that seems to be a characteristic of his stories and study it in a few of them... like the fantastic, or containment, or houses, or madness, or the double... Lots of themes to choose from, actually!
Thank you for replying. I'm not really sure what i need to do. My teacher is pretty vague about it. I guess I'm looking for something a little creative. I just have no idea how to do a presentation on an author and not make it biographical. Your idea of themes does help, but we havn't read alot of his works in class so I don't really have alot to work with.
I would get a costume and dress up like Poe . Perform a reading . Have the other members of the group ask you planted questions and you give prepared
answers . Should be entertaining . Good grade if it is .
Greenwolfe 1962
Thank you for the ideas Bitterfly and Greenwolfe1962. I did my presentation yesterday and got an A on it.
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