How much literature do I need in the proposal?
Enough to establish that the question matters and has not been answered. That is a different job from the full review in chapter two. If a paragraph is not helping justify your study, it usually belongs in the later chapter instead.
This comes up on Dissertation Proposal Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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