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Week 2 Assignment-Annotated Bibliography

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For this assignment, you will write an annotated bibliography on three sources. For detailed information on how to create your Annotated Bibliography, please see this Sample Annotated Bibliography.

In your Annotated Bibliography, you will

Copy and paste the writing prompt you chose to explore in Week One into a Word Document.
Restate the working thesis you created in Week One below your writing prompt.
In this same document, identify your primary source(s) and two secondary, academic sources. If you chose to discuss two poems in your Week One Assignment, each must have its own entry in the Annotated Bibliography.
Summarize each source and explain how the source supports your working thesis. These summaries should be 100 to 150 words for each entry.
For the Annotated Bibliography assignment, you will write annotations for three sources. One source should be a primary source. Next, you will choose two secondary sources that are additional to the text.

The two sources you locate must be academic sources and come from peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly publications. For information on finding sources within the Ashford Library, please view the ENG125 - Literature Research tutorial.

The Annotated Bibliography includes a citation of the source in APA format. It also includes a brief summary of the source.

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ENG125: Introduction to Literature

Sample Annotated Bibliography

The Annotated Bibliography includes a citation of the source in APA format. It also includes a brief summary of

the source. See the example below of the primary source:

Kafka, F. (1990). The metamorphosis. New York, NY: Scribner Paperback Fiction.

The Metamorphosis begins when Gregor Samsa wakes up and discovers he has been transformed into a large

insect. The story tells how he and his family deal with his transformation, which a focus on the dehumanization

that Gregor faces in his job and his family role. Gregor attempts to communicate, but cannot and, isolated and

misunderstood, he slowly deteriorates. Kafka uses Gregor’s transformation into an insect as a metaphor for how

modern life squashes our ability to interrelate with others and create meaning in our lives.

In your Annotated Bibliography you will find two sources that will help you explore and discuss your primary

text.

Ryan, S. (2007). Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung: Transformation, metaphor, and the

perils of assimilation. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 43(1), 1-18.

This source by Simon Ryan explores how Kafka’s Jewishness created anxiety about his body, particularly since

anti-semitism pervaded his Czech culture. The stereotypes of Jewishness did not allow Jewish people to easily

assimilate into the dominant culture, though many Jews attempted to do so. Gregor Samsa’s transformation into

an insect is a metaphor of the power and pervasiveness of anti-semitism and the inability of a Jewish man to fully

assimilate. The insect body symbolizes how Jewish people were viewed and Gregor’s quiet extinction

foreshadows the Holocaust. This source helps to define how body image, coupled with Jewishness, can alienate a

person from the culture around him.

ENG125: Introduction to Literature

Sokel, W. H. (1983). From Marx to myth: The structure and function of self-alienation in

Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Literary Review, 26(4), 485-496.

Walter Sokel discusses the concept of self-alienation and how Kafka’s story represents it in a literal way. Using a

Marxist analysis, Sokel shows how labor, as it is defined in the story, is structured within a capitalist system

where the worker -- Gregor -- is alienated from the product of his labor. Therefore, his work has no meaning to

him. However, describing this as a “mythical setting,” Sokel shows how Gregor assumes guilt for his inability to

provide labor and, as a result, dies without ever recovering his humanity. This source will help define why Gregor

turned into an insect and how the economic system alienated him from himself and his family.