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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:
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General characteristics.
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Prose:
Washington Irving, John Fernimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Stephen Crane.
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Poetry:
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman.
2. Victorian Era:
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General
characteristics.
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Popular
novel: Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, R. L. Stevenson.
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Theatre:
Oscar Wilde.
3. Realism:
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General
characteristics.
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Henry
James
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Mark
Twain
4. Modernism in the UK (1):
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General
characteristics.
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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):
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Characteristics
of the poetry and theatre
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Poetry: “War Poets”: Siegried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Thomas
Hardy, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot.
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Theatre:
George Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, J.M. Synge, Noël Coward.
6. Modernism in the USA (1):
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General
characteristics.
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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):
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General
characteristics of the prose and theatre
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Poetry:
Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra
Pound, E.E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, etc.
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Theatre:
Sophie Treadwell, Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman,
etc.
8. Postmodernism in the UK (1):
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General
characteristics.
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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):
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General
characteristics of poetry and theatre.
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Poetry:
Robert Graves, Sterne Smith, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip
Larkin, Seamus Heany, etc.
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Theatre:
Samuel Beckett, Robert Bolt, J. Osborne, Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker, Tom Stoppard,
Theatre of the Absurd.
1.Postmodernism in the USA (1):
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General
characteristics.
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Prose:
Ralph Ellison, “The Beat Generation”, Toni Morrison, Harper Lee, Cormac
McCarthy, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, etc.
11. Postmodernism in the USA (2):
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General
characteristics of the poetry and theatre.
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Poetry:
W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Maya Angelou,
Sylvia Plath, etc.
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Theatre:
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, Edward Albee, Lorraine
Hansberry, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, etc.
12. Postcolonial Literature:
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Prose:
Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie,
Margaret Atwood.
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Poetry:
Grace Nichols, Benjamin Zephaniah, Fred D’Aguiar, etc.