Literature for 4th ESO

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This is the list of subjects from which you can choose to make the Literature presentation. Remember that we will start after we come back from the holidays.

LITERATURE PRESENTATIONS:

1.       Romanticism in the USA:

-          General characteristics.

-          Prose: Washington Irving, John Fernimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane.

-          Poetry: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman.

2.       Victorian Era:

-          General characteristics.

-          Popular novel: Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, R. L. Stevenson.

-          Theatre: Oscar Wilde.

3.       Realism:

-          General characteristics.

-          Henry James

-          Mark Twain

4.       Modernism in the UK (1):

-          General characteristics.

-          Prose: Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell.

5.       Modernism in the UK (2):

-          Characteristics of the poetry and theatre

-          Poetry:  “War Poets”: Siegried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot.

-          Theatre: George Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, J.M. Synge, Noël Coward.

6.       Modernism in the USA (1):

-          General characteristics.

-          Prose: “The Lost Generation”: John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, J.D. Salinger, etc.

7.       Modernism in the USA (2):

-          General characteristics of the prose and theatre

-          Poetry: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, etc.

-          Theatre: Sophie Treadwell, Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, etc.

8.       Postmodernism in the UK (1):

-          General characteristics.

-          Prose: Graham Greene, Roald Dahl, Doris Lessing, Kingsley Amis, “Angry Young Men”, John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, etc.

9.       Postmodernism in the UK (2):

-          General characteristics of poetry and theatre.

-          Poetry: Robert Graves, Sterne Smith, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heany, etc.

-          Theatre: Samuel Beckett, Robert Bolt, J. Osborne, Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker, Tom Stoppard, Theatre of the Absurd.

1.Postmodernism in the USA (1):

-          General characteristics.

-          Prose: Ralph Ellison, “The Beat Generation”, Toni Morrison, Harper Lee, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, etc.

11.   Postmodernism in the USA (2):

-          General characteristics of the poetry and theatre.

-          Poetry: W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, etc.

-          Theatre: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, etc.

12.   Postcolonial Literature:

-          Prose: Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood.

-          Poetry: Grace Nichols, Benjamin Zephaniah, Fred D’Aguiar, etc.