Revision for exam.
Parts 1 and 2:
Remember that the main issues we have been concerned with are:
History of the short story:
- Realism (individual in social context, plot);
- Modernism (consciousness, epiphany, minimizing plot);
- Postmodernism (loss of story, stereotypes, simulacra, ideology, linguistic relativism);
- Postcolonial perspective (native perspective, subaltern culture; two cultures, languages; liminality);
- Male/female style.
Technical aspects of style:
- Sound, syntax (sentence structure, etc.), semantic aspects (e.g., figurative language);
- imagery, symbolism.
Narrative features:
- character,
- setting,
- episodes,
- discourse styles,
- narrators,
- point of view,
- temporal shifts.
You can write about materials covered in essays or the project; but you will find that the questions probably require a different angle.
You will write three short essays in two hours. Take a little time planning; try to include the features of a good essay: thesis statement, individual paragraphs with topic sentences, a conclusion that indicates what you have achieved and signals the larger perspective.
Write on both sides of the paper, and single-spaced unless your writing is large.
Document prepared April 6th 2004