As a 16 year old student in the 60's Bruce McAllister decided to write 150 novelists to see if they used symbolism in their writting. He wrote Ayn Rand, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Jack Karouac to name a few. Pretty interesting responses. To see the article click here. You may also want to look here.
This presents an idea that your senior students could do as a class project (at college or university level, you might be surprised). Come up with a few questions and then look up some authors email addresses and then email them. Summarize the responses using an infographic and then post your results. Or write up the results formally and have the class publish them in some scholarly publication. Some students could be in charge of coming up with the questions. While others could come up with a list of authors. Others would have to find a way of contacting these authors. Another group could summarize the results. While the last group could put the infographic or scholar article together. Just a thought.
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