Study
Guide, Exam 2
Engl 4040 Modernism
and Postmodernism
O'Donnell, ETSU, Fall 2013
last update: December 6, 2013
exam
date and time: Thurs Dec 12, 1:20-3:20pm
About
the Exam
1. This exam is worth 15% of your final grade.
2.
The exam will have two sections: I) identification, and II) short essay. Each
is explained below.
3. The exam will be "open book:" All the prompts chosen for the exam
will first be posted on this study guide web page, and I encourage you to bring
your books and notes to the exam. However, I require that you compose your
responses during the exam period, rather than composing the sentences ahead of
time and transcribing them during the exam.
Section
I. Identification
This section will be worth half of the exam grade. The section will include a
list of ten prompts -- that is, names, titles, concepts, and/or quotes. All ten
prompts on the exam will be drawn from the list of 18, below. From the ten on the exam, you will in turn select
seven, to which you will respond in writing.
For
each of those seven prompts, write a "mini essay" -- three or four
clear, complete, self-explanatory sentences -- in which you identify 1) the
author(s) and text(s) with which prompt is associated; 2) the context or
definition; 3) an important issue associated with the prompt.
1.
Cave of Swimmers
2.
dechronification treatments
3.
decolonization
4.
postcolonial literature
5.
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6.
RateMe Plus
7. American Restoration Authority (ARA)
8. Zerzura
9. Centaur Excavations at Volos
10. Institute for Historical Review
11. Caravaggio
12. "Nevermore"
13. "...there is a distinct limit, as regards
length, to all works of literary art--the limit of a single
sitting..."
14. " [A]s a poet, I
may very possibly be more interested in the so-called illogical impingements of
the connotations of words on the consciousness (and their combinations and
interplay in metaphor on this basis) than I am interested in the preservation
of their logically rigid significations at the cost of limiting my subject
matter and the perceptions involved in the poem."
15. palimpsest
16. epistolary novel
17. Villa San Girolamo
18. sapper
Section
II. Short Essay
This section is worth half of the exam grade. Write a short essay--a few
hundred words--in which you argue that a particular work is either modernist,
or postmodernist, or both, or neither. Be sure to have a point!--that is, a
purpose for discussing the work that you discuss, and for adopting the position
which you take. The works you may discuss include any of the imaginative
literature we've read since early October; any of the poems in the anthology; or
"Mr. Death," the film by Errol Morris.