Beowulf or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Beowulf or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Choose your own topic, or come to see me for help in developing a topic if you are not sure what you want to write about. You can focus on a single work or compare some aspect of two works.Make sure your paper has a clear thesis, supported by detail from the text(s) and by several secondary sources (peer-reviewed historical or literary criticism). For your secondary sources, you may find it useful to consult books and articles on the development of particular themes in the appropriate historical period or on the historical development of particular literary forms as well as books or articles on the specific works you are discussing.