Novel Unit Essay Purpose: To address a major issue from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The issues are (but not limited to) religion, prison culture, food, point of view, Communism, the abilit
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Novel Unit Essay
Purpose: To address a major issue from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The issues are (but not limited to) religion, prison culture, food, point of view, Communism, the ability to affirm life, political reeducation and corruption.. this is the novel http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/aleksandr_soljenitsin_ivan_denisovichin_bir_gunu-eng.pdf
Your job is to make a connection between this text, written and published in Russia in 1962, and our world today. What can readers learn from this text that is applicable in their own lives? Or, what can the events of today teach us about the novel? How can we view the novel differently when taking into consideration recent history?
Assignment: You will write an essay examining one of the issues above within the context of the novel. You will make an arguable point about your chosen issue, making sure to use one of the sources provided to you. Most of your essay must be focused on the novel. Also, this is not a summary. Do not summarize overly much. Stay focused on the novel itself and then connect to whatever you’d like to discuss.
Audience: Your instructor and peers
Research Required: You must use at least 3 scholarly sources, 1 of which must come from the list of sources provided to you. You can use more than 1 source from the source list.
Format: MLA style and documentation
Length: 2,300 words (not including headers or works cited)
Please read the novel and make a connection http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/aleksandr_soljenitsin_ivan_denisovichin_bir_gunu-eng.pdf
List of Sources for Novel Unit Essay
You must choose at least one source from this list and use it in your essay. I have linked some of the sources
Food:
Xu, Dongmei. “Food and Homecoming in Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” The Explicator, vol. 66, no. 2, 2008, pp. 104–108. EBSCOhost, doi:10.3200/EXPL.66.2.104-108
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Cismaru, Alfred. “The Importance of Food in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” San José Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 1983, pp. 99–105. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1983026939&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Point of View:
Rus, Vladimir J. “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Point of View Analysis.” Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes, vol. 13, no. 2/3, 1971, pp. 165–178. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40866344. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
Brent, Jonathan. “Freedom Depends on the First Person Singular.” Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 53, no. 3, Sept. 2006, p. B5. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2007301892&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
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Kern, Gary. “Ivan the Worker.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 1977, pp. 5–30. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26280373. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
Religion:
Kobets, Svitlana. “The Subtext of Christian Asceticism in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” The Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 1998, pp. 661–676. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/309782. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
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Prison Culture:
Taylor, Jon Marc. “The Education of Ivan Denisovich.” Journal of Correctional Education, vol. 48, no. 2, 1997, pp. 84–86. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23294138. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
Communism:
Orlich, Ileana Alexandra. “Communist Totalitarianism in Solzhenitsyn’s Fiction.” Caietele Echinox, vol. 19, 2010, pp. 243–249. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2013297250&site=ehost-live&scope=site
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Kodjak, Andrej. “Political Conversion in Solzhenitsyn's Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 1977, pp. 119–131. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26280380. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
Ability to Affirm Life:
Kovaly, Pavel. “Problems of Anti-Humanism and Humanism in the Life and Work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.” Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 11, no. 1, 1971, pp. 1–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20098437. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
Political Reeducation:
Andrew Wachtel. “One Day—Fifty Years Later.” Slavic Review, vol. 72, no. 1, 2013, pp. 102–117. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.72.1.0102. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
Corruption:
Rothberg, Abraham. “One Day—Four Decades: Solzhenitsyn's Hold on Reality.” Southwest Review, vol. 56, no. 2, 1971, pp. 109–125. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43468264. Accessed 27 Mar. 2020.
