EKZAMEN_3_KURS_LITERATURA
.docExam Questions 3d year
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American literature of the 1920s: Big Decade. Range of problems and artistic search in the 1920s. The October Revolution and its response in literature.
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Modernist movement in the 1920s. Gertrude Stein.
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American literature of the 1030s: Red Decade. Rediscovery of America. Documentary boom.
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The soviet factor in American literature: revolutionary Russia and the writers of the USA.
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Proletarian novel. Writers unions of the 1930s.
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Erskin Caldwell. Novellas. Contribution to literature.
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Pearl Buck. The novel “Earth” and its artistic value.
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Waldo Frank as a publicist and novelist.
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William Saroyan and his artistic style.
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Margaret Mitchell. “Gone with the Wind”.
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The South School of American literature. Themes, problems, poetics.
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Sinclair Lewis. Biography, style, career development, political views, range of problems in his writing.
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Sinclair Lewis. “Babbitt” as the national phenomenon. Babbittry.
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Sinclair Lewis. “Arrowsmith”. Anti-Babbitt characters. The style and significance of the novel.
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The America of Sinclair Lewis.
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J.D. Passos. Biography. Political views. Historical works. Artistic method.
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J.D. Passos. “Three Soldiers”: structure, themes, problems.
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J.D. Passos. “Manhattan Transfer” as a collective novel. The image of a megapolis.
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J.D. Passos. Trilogy “The USA”: structure, themes, problems, artistic value.
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F.S Fitzgerald. Literary career. Artistic value of his works.
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F.S Fitzgerald. “The Great Gatsby”: ruined dreams. Poetics of the novel.
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W. Faulkner. Literary career. “Yoknapatawpha County”. Artistic value of his writing method.
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W. Faulkner. “Light in August”: man versus society.
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W. Faulkner. The Snopes Trilogy: structure, themes, archetypes.
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E. Hemingway. Literary career. Artistic method.
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W. Faulkner. “The Sun Also Rises”: themes, problems, artistic method, Spanish motifs.
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W. Faulkner. “The Old Man and the Sea”: poetics, philosophy.
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J. Steinbeck. Literary career. Artistic value of his works.
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W. Faulkner. “Grapes of Wrath”: documentary basis, the question of genre, archetypes, poetics.
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T.S Eliot. Writing career. “Prufrock and Other Observations”, “The Waste Land”: compositions, range of problems; “Hollow Men”
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Imagism. Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle.
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R. Frost: literary career, poetics.
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E. O’Neil: literary career, artistic method and style.
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E. O’Neil: “Long Day’s Journey into Night”: the system of characters, composition, range of problems, philosophy.
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Drama in the interwar period: Elmer Rice, G.H Lawson, “The Theatre Union”, “Group Theatre”, poetic drama.
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Drama in the interwar period: L. Hellman, Th. Wilder.
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The new generation of “black America”: R. Wright.