SUBJECTS FOR THE FINAL EXAMINATION

N.B. When the subject does not refer to a particular author or text, illustrate your answer with at least 2 different authors.

1.       (Arch-)Romantic poetics – predilect genre and typical literary (sub)species

2.       The poetic faculty in Wordsworth’s view

3.       The Romantics’ poetics of metaphor and symbol

4.       (Arch-)Romantic metaphysics

5.       Nature in Wordsworth’s poetry

6.       Discuss the Wordsworthian line “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting” with a view to the metaphysical implications of childhood in the Immortality Ode.

7.       Types of vision in William Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode”.

8.       The sensual and the imaginary in Keats’ poetry

9.       Elusiveness and ambiguity in Keats’ poems

10.   Archetypal significance in John Keats’s “La Belle Dame sans Merci”

11.   Gender stereotypization in John Keats’s “La Belle Dame sans Merci”

12.   (Arch-)Realist poetics – predilect genre and typical literary (sub)species

13.   Elements of satire in English neo-classical literature

14.   The status of the woman in Moll Flanders

15.   (Arch-)Realist metaphysics

16.   Realist elements in English Romanticism

17.   The realism of the approach and of the narrative devices in Defoe’s Moll Flanders

18.   (Arch-)Classical poetics – predilect genre and typical literary (sub)species

19.   (Arch-)Classical metaphysics

20.   Elements of form supporting the critical argument in Pope’s Essays

21.   Didacticism in Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism”

22.   Neo-classical features in Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism”

23.   Pope’s neo-classical aesthetics

24.   Pope’s philosophical and theological views in An Essay on Man.

25.   The comedy of manners and Congreve’s devices in depicting human flaws

26.   The battle of the sexes in The Way of the World

27.   (Arch-)Mannerist poetics – predilect genre and typical literary (sub)species

28.   The rhetoric of (Arch-)Mannerism

29.   (Arch-)Mannerist metaphysics

30.   Mannerist elements in English Romantic literature

31.   Mannerist elements in English Neo-classical literature

32.   Narrative and philosophical irony in Swift’s work

33.   The function of the theme of the stranger in Gulliver’s Travels

34.   Colonial encounters in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

35.   Perspectives upon the human body in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

36.   Blake’s use of paradox and irony

37.   The relevance of childhood in Romantic poetry

38.   Archetypal significance in William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”.

39.   The nature of spirituality in William Blake’s philosophy.

40.   Explain and exemplify the Blakean assertion "Without contraries [there] is no progression".

41.   Mary Shelley’s narrative devices and the Gothic style

42.   Intertextuality and deeper meaning in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

43.   Frankenstein and the myth of creation