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British Literature exam for Bernie Higgins.

Semster 1
Lecture handouts from the first semester

1. @1 The characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry.

2. The major features of Middle English Literature.

3. @2 Chaucer's contribution to the development of English Literature.

4. @3 The importance of theatre to the Elizabethan sensibility.

5. @4 Shakespeare's comedies in the context of the late Reniassance (the Elizabethan period) and from the point of view of modern sensibility.

6. Shakespeare's tragedies in the context of the late Renaissance (the Elizabethan period) and from the point of view of modern sensibility.

7. @5 The Contrast in the sensibility of Elizabethan poetry and Metaphysical poetry.

8. @6 Paradise Lost as the major poetic work of the 17th century.

9. @7 Characteristic features of English Neo-Classicism.

10. @8 The rise and forms(types) of the 18th century English Novel.

11. @9 Sterne's Tristram Shandy as the 18th Century anti-novel and as a forerunner of the postmodern novel.

12. @10 The spirit and sensibility of pre-Romanticism and Romanticism.

Semester2
I searched my computer through and through and found very few notes on this semester? Did Ms. Higgins not send us any?

13. @11 The different contributions of the Lake Poets to Romanticism.

14. @12 The varied conceptions of Romanticism in Byron, Shelley and Keats.

15. @13 The typology of the Victorian novel.

16. @14 The philosophical and Socio-historical background of Victorianism.

17. @15 The sensibility of Victorian poetry with reference to at least one specific poem.

Semester 3
Lecture handouts for semster 3

18. Discuss the Edwardian Period as a transition between Victorianism and the Modern Era.

19. @16 Discuss the major features of British modernism including the Bloomsbury Group using the work of E.M. Forster, James Joyce (not 'Eveline') and V. Woolf to illustrate your discussion.

20. @17 Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot and British Modernist poetry.

21. @18 D.H. Lawrence's position within modernism.

22. @19 The fiction and poetry of the 1930s.

23. @20 Discuss the 20th century British writers who fucus on moral concers(Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, William Golding, Anthony Burgess, Iris Murdoch).

24. Post WWII British Fiction (1940s and 1950s): moral allegory, fable fantasy; the AYM; "creolization of the British novel.

25. @21 Theatre of the absurd, with reference to Waiting for Godot.

26. Major trends in 20th century British Drama.

27. @22 Movements in post WWII British poetry.

28. @23 British fiction from the 1960s to 1980s and the philosophical background of postmodernism.

29. @24 Major tendencies in British fiction from the 1990s to the present.

30. @25 Multicultural literature in contemporary Britain.

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American Literature questions

American Literature:

1. The Colonial and Early American Period (John Smith, the Puritans, the Enlightenment, the first post-colonial authors)

2. 19th -century Romanticism I: W. Irving, J.F.Cooper, E.A.Poe

3. 19th -century Romanticism II - Transcendentalism: N. Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau

4. 19th -century Romanticism III and the Transitional Period between Romanticism and Naturalism/Realism: H.Melville, M.Twain

5. Early American Realism/Naturalism: Henry James, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Kate Chopin

6. American Poetry of the 2nd half of the 19th century and of the beginning of the 20th century: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg

7. Early 20th -century American Realist Fiction: T. Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather

8. Modernism and the “Lost Generation“: E. Hemingway, F.S.Fitzgerald, W.Faulkner

9. American Fiction of the 1930s through the 1950s: J.Steinbeck, J.D.Salinger, the Beatniks (J. Kerouac)

10. American Fiction of the 1960s through the 1980s: N. Mailer, J.Updike, J.Heller, W.Styron

11. Post-Modernism: Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Raymond Carver, Vladimir Nabokov

12. American Jewish Literature: Bernard Malamud, I.B.Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth

13. American Poetry of the 20th Century: T.S.Eliot, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

14. Representative American Drama: Arthur Miller, Eugene O ́Neill, Tennessee Williams, E. Albee, Sam Shepard

15. African American and Native American Literature: slave narratives, Z.N. Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, A. Walker, L. M. Silko, L. Erdrich

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