ENGLISH LITERATURE SEMINAR:
TOPICS REQUIRED FOR THE DIPLOMA EXAMINATION
1. Basic characteristics of Old English poetry.
2. The tradition of courtly love in English medieval and early Renaissance literature.
3. Everyman and G. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Two different facets of English medieval literature.
4. Allegory as a literary genre. Discuss its characteristics and provide examples.
5. The conventions of the Elizabethan theatre.
6. Shakespeare’s use of literary sources and dramatic conventions.
7. Metaphysical poetry and its influence on English and American literature.
8. Early American literature: basic characteristics of colonial writing. Puritanism.
9. The Age of Sensibility in English literature.
10. Man and Nature in English Romantic poetry.
11. American Transcendentalists. R. W. Emerson and H. D. Thoreau.
12. W. Whitman, E. Dickinson and their poetry.
13. The Victorian novel.
14. Modernism in English literature.
15. English drama in the 20th century. S. Beckett, H. Pinter, T. Stoppard.
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