Given you did not provide a more narrow idea of the
research you are doing, other than in literature, the answer will not be able to be
answered as specifically.
Common themes one can research in
literature highly depend on what genre and period you are examining. Therefore, the
answer will suggest themes most commonly examined in any literature course or
study.
1. Examination of the characteristics common to a
specific genre and how different authors create understanding of the themes throughout
their own work or as compared to other authors of the same
genre.
2. Choose different texts which examine similar
themes. Discuss how the authors contrast in their process of highlighting the
theme.
3. Take the movie and text of a specific work and
examine how the themes are similar or different.
4. Look at
poems and texts which have similar themes. Discuss how each author discusses the theme
given poems are typically more compact and novels are more drawn out. Which seems to
offer the more defined theme.
5. How the examination of
themes has changed over time. What were the popular themes examined in the earliest
writings as compared to the themes today? Have they really changed that much? Of they
have not, why?
As a side note, if you provide a more
focused idea of what you are looking for, please post it as a thread and I will be happy
to re-examine.
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