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1:
What is Amerindian background?
What similarities and differences can we find in Amerindian tribes / nations economy and political organization?
What is the essence of Amerindian religion?
What is the general notion of oral tradition?
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What is the specifics of Amerindian orature and its variety of genres?
What are the main themes, characters, and mythological figures?
2:
What is travel literature? What genres does it comprise?
Who is considered to be the first explorer of America in Pre-Columbian period?
What information of Amerindians do we get from the Old Norse Saga?
What are the main reasons for American exploration during the Columbian period?
How is the first American travel literature during the Columbian period characterized and what kind of information does it provide us with?
3:
What are the peculiarities of the Colonial literature?
What are the main genres of the Colonial literature?
Who are the main representatives of that period of American literature?
What are the main themes of the Colonial period?
4:
What is the Enlightenment (its philosophical and historical background)?
What are the peculiarities of the Enlightenment?
Who are the main representatives of this period?
What are the main literary genres of the Enlightenment?
Define the peculiarities of the Journalistic age, its representatives, main genres and themes.
Speak on the specifics of the Neoclassicism, its origin, representatives, genres and themes.
5:
Three periods of development of American Romanticism.
Washington Irving. Periods of literary career:
a) Tales of a Traveler. The Devil and Tom Walker;
b) The peculiarities of the style. Humour;
c) Social ideas in the works by W. Irving.
James Fenimore Cooper:
a) The Leather-Stocking Tales;
b) Theme, ideas, heroic topics;
c) The hero.
Edgar Alan Poe:
a) Poes aesthetic principles;
b) Poetry;
c) Prose;
d) Literary method.
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow and his poet:
a) The Song of Hiawatha;
b) Human ideas, folklore;
c) Characters.
6:
Mark Twain.
Life and creative activity;
Social views, style, humour;
Works, short stories;
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, (humour, social criticism, problems).
O. Henry. Social Viewpoint and Aesthetics:
Ideas of life and literature;
Stories of city;
Composition, peculiarities of realism.
Jack London:
Themes and problems of his works;
The authors viewpoint and aesthetics;
Short stories. London the poet of North, ideal pathos of the North stories. Traditions of American novel writing;
Martin Eden, the theme and the main problems;
Social problems, peculiarities of realism;
Political and literary critical views;
The system of characters;
The character of Martin Eden;
The fate of a writer in society.
Theodor Dreiser. An American Tragedy as an epic of the modern big city:
The social background;
The main theme and problems;
Typicality of the characters, the system of characters: the Griffiths,
the Aldens, Clyde Griffith and Roberta Alden;
The farce of American Justice.
7:
Jerome David Salinger. John Updike.
1. The topic of the tragedy of the young generation in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger; the literary form, the language, the main theme and the problems in the novel, the system of characters, the peculiarities of the genre.
2. The problem of youth and American society in the novel The Centaur by
J. Updike, the system of characters, the main character, the peculiarities of the literary form and the language.
Truman Capote.
1. The Grass Harp.
2. In Cold Blood.
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird.
8:
Eugene ONeil. Beyond the Horizon. The structure. The plot. The people in the play. The theme.
Lillian Hellman The Little Foxes. The purpose. The main idea of the work.
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie. Symbolism, allegory. The theme.
The reflection of contemporary America in the drama of the period.
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Contribution of American drama to the world literature.
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Eugene ONeil. Beyond the Horizon. The structure. The plot. The people in the play. The theme.
Lillian Hellman The Little Foxes. The purpose. The main idea of the work.
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie. Symbolism, allegory. The theme.
The reflection of contemporary America in the drama of the period.
Contribution of American drama to the world literature.
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