EKZAMEN_3_KURS_LITERATURA

Exam Questions 3^d year

1. American literature of the 1920s: Big Decade. Range of problems and artistic search in the 1920s. The October Revolution and its response in literature.

2. Modernist movement in the 1920s. Gertrude Stein.

3. American literature of the 1030s: Red Decade. Rediscovery of America. Documentary boom.

4. The soviet factor in American literature: revolutionary Russia and the writers of the USA.

5. Proletarian novel. Writers unions of the 1930s.

6. Erskin Caldwell. Novellas. Contribution to literature.

7. Pearl Buck. The novel “Earth” and its artistic value.

8. Waldo Frank as a publicist and novelist.

9. William Saroyan and his artistic style.

10. Margaret Mitchell. “Gone with the Wind”.

11. The South School of American literature. Themes, problems, poetics.

12. Sinclair Lewis. Biography, style, career development, political views, range of problems in his writing.

13. Sinclair Lewis. “Babbitt” as the national phenomenon. Babbittry.

14. Sinclair Lewis. “Arrowsmith”. Anti-Babbitt characters. The style and significance of the novel.

15. The America of Sinclair Lewis.

16. J.D. Passos. Biography. Political views. Historical works. Artistic method.

17. J.D. Passos. “Three Soldiers”: structure, themes, problems.

18. J.D. Passos. “Manhattan Transfer” as a collective novel. The image of a megapolis.

19. J.D. Passos. Trilogy “The USA”: structure, themes, problems, artistic value.

20. F.S Fitzgerald. Literary career. Artistic value of his works.

21. F.S Fitzgerald. “The Great Gatsby”: ruined dreams. Poetics of the novel.

22. W. Faulkner. Literary career. “Yoknapatawpha County”. Artistic value of his writing method.

23. W. Faulkner. “Light in August”: man versus society.

24. W. Faulkner. The Snopes Trilogy: structure, themes, archetypes.

25. E. Hemingway. Literary career. Artistic method.

26. W. Faulkner. “The Sun Also Rises”: themes, problems, artistic method, Spanish motifs.

27. W. Faulkner. “The Old Man and the Sea”: poetics, philosophy.

28. J. Steinbeck. Literary career. Artistic value of his works.

29. W. Faulkner. “Grapes of Wrath”: documentary basis, the question of genre, archetypes, poetics.

30. T.S Eliot. Writing career. “Prufrock and Other Observations”, “The Waste Land”: compositions, range of problems; “Hollow Men”

31. Imagism. Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle.

32. R. Frost: literary career, poetics.

33. E. O’Neil: literary career, artistic method and style.

34. E. O’Neil: “Long Day’s Journey into Night”: the system of characters, composition, range of problems, philosophy.

35. Drama in the interwar period: Elmer Rice, G.H Lawson, “The Theatre Union”, “Group Theatre”, poetic drama.

36. Drama in the interwar period: L. Hellman, Th. Wilder.

37. The new generation of “black America”: R. Wright.