Перелік питань підсумкового контролю
1. Major literary genres: prose, poetry, drama. Literature and other humanities.
2. Main characteristics of English literature. Periods of English literature. The Ukrainian scholars researching contemporary English literature.
3. World War II and its influence on English literature. The disintegration of the British Empire.
4. 1950-1965 – the end of the modernist epoch: the last attempt to learn the world. The main characteristics of modernism. Existentialism.
5. The problem of the canon and the mainstream. The diversity of canons.
6. The canon of the Soviet criticism. The representatives of the so called post-war realistic literature (John Boynton Priestley, Archibald Joseph Cronin, James Aldridge, Jack Lindsay, Charles Percy Snow, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene).
7. Strangers and Brothers as a social and psychological epic by Charles Percy Snow.
8. The British satirical tradition in the works by Evelyn Waugh.
9. Graham Greene’s works: between realism and modernism. The political and moral aspects of The Quite American.
10. The canon of the British poetry of the later 20th century (John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney). The Movement against modernism in poetry.
11. The canon of the Angry Young Men writers (John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine). The rising of the middle class and the reflecting of its problems in literature.
12. Look Back in Anger by J. Osborne as an iconic play about the problems of the second lost generation.
13. The canon of the English post-war intellectual novelists (Iris Murdoch, William Golding, John Fowles).
14. The philosophical works by Iris Murdoch: the way from existentialism to Platonism. The Bell.
15. The parabolical novels by William Golding. The Lord of the Flies as a parable about the historical ways of the mankind.
16. The canon of the dystopian genre. G. Orwell’s 1984.
17. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess as a cult exploration of the nature of evil.
18. The canon of science fiction. John Wyndham’s post-apocalyptic novels. Arthur Clarke’s works. The New Wave of science fiction (Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, J. G. Ballard).
19. The canon of the modern fantasy literature. Christian symbolism in the works by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Clive Staples Lewis.
20. The canon of the post-war British detective genre (Agatha Christie, James Hadley Chase, Ian Fleming, John Le Carré).
21. 1965 – up to the present – the postmodernist epoch. The main characteristics of postmodernism. Structuralism, post-structuralism.
22. John Fowles as a forefather of postmodernist canon (The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman).
23. Postmodernist elements in Anthony Powell’s epic A Dance to the Music of Time and Malcolm Bradbury’s works.
23. The later works by Iris Murdoch and William Golding.
24. The diversity of the contemporary mainstream canon in Great Britain (Catherine Cookson, Muriel Spark, Margaret Drabble, Peter Ackroyd, Maeve Binchy, Jeffrey Archer, Anita Brookner).
25. The canon of British drama. The theatre of absurd and its influence on Harold Pinter’s works.
26. Intellectual plays by Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
27. The canon of contemporary British fantasy: bestselling works by Joanne Rowling and Terry Pratchett.
28. Main characteristics of American literature. Periods of American literature. The Ukrainian scholars researching contemporary American literature.
29. The social and political situation in the post-war USA. David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd: a change of the mental paradigm of American character.
30. The later works by John Steinbeck, Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway.
31. Jerome David Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
32. The canon of the Beat Generation: poetry by Allen Ginsberg, On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
33. Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a link between the “beat generation” of the 1950s and the “hippies” of the 1960s.
34. The canon of the anti-racial works: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
35. The war experience: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, From Here to Eternity and Just Call by James Jones, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, Sophie’s Choice by William Styron.
36. The canon of rock poetry (Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison).
37. The canon of mainstream: short stories and novels by Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Irving Shaw, Bernard Malamud, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Marry Higgins Clark, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Tyler.
38. James Baldwin’s Sonny's Blues.
39. Saul Bellow ’sHerzog, The Adventures of Augie March.
40. The Golden Age of science fiction (Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Sheckley). The New Wave in American SF (Ursula Le Guin, Samuel Delany, Philip Dick).
41. The canon of the detective genre: Rex Stout’s detective stories.The canon of crime fiction: The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
42. Poetry (Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath).
43. American drama (Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller).
44. The elements of black humor and postmodernism in the works by John Barth, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut.
45. American postmodernist “chaosmos’: Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
46. John Updike as a “sensitive barometer of the American temperament” and a portrayer of the middle class. Reality and mythology in The Centaur. The Rabbit series.
47. The crisis of liberalism and “New Age” spirituality: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
48. Changing the fantasy canon: Le Guin’s Earthsea series and She Unnames Them.
49. Between realism and experimentation: the works by E.L. Doctorow, John Gardner and Cormac McCarthy.
50. Decentralization and multiculturalism. The rise of multiethnic fiction.
51. The canon of “womanist” fiction: the works of Tony Morrison and Alice Walker.
52. Sidney Sheldon’s bestselling works.
53. The political and philosophical reflections in the works by Gore Vidal.
54. Love stories: Erich Segal, Julie Garwood, Nancy Richards-Akers.
55. Techno-thrillers by Michael Crichton.
56. Legal dramas by John Grisham and political thrillers by Tom Clancy.
57. The canon of the horror novel: Stephen King’s works.
58. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
59. The highlights of modern Canadian literature.
60. Glimpses of contemporary Australian literature.
Літературні терміни
Literary terms
| African-American Renaissance | heterogeneous | poetry |
| allegory | hyperbole | point of view |
| allusion | identity | political thriller |
| the Angry Young Men | imagery | postmodernism |
| the Beat Generation | intellectual novel | post-structuralism |
| bestseller | intertextuality | prose |
| bildungsroman | irony | protagonist |
| black humo(u)r | jazz | pseudonym |
| blank verse | legal drama | racism |
| canon | leitmotif | realism |
| characterization | literary technique | rhizome |
| comedy | love story | rhyme |
| critical realism | lyricism | rhythm |
| cyberpunk | mainstream | rock-poetry |
| deconstruction | melodrama | saga |
| detective fiction | the melting pot | sarcasm |
| drama | memoir | satire |
| dystopia (cacotopia, kakotopia or anti-utopia) | metafiction | science fiction |
| epic | metanarrative | script |
| epigraph | metaphor | setting |
| epilogue | model | short story |
| epistemology | modernism | simile |
| epithet | metre/meter | simulacrum |
| essay | multiculturalism | soft science fiction |
| existentialism | myth | speculative fiction |
| experimentation | narrative | structure |
| fable | New Wave | structuralism |
| fairy tale | Nobel Prize | style |
| fantasy | novel | symbol |
| farce | novella | techno-thriller |
| feminism | ontology | The Theatre of the Absurd |
| fiction | parable | theme |
| folklore | parody | tone |
| form | pastiche | traditionalism |
| fragmentation | personification | tragedy |
| genre | picaresque novel | tragicomedy |
| The Golden Age of science fiction | plagiarism | uncertainty |
| grotesque | Platonism | wilderness |
| hard science fiction | plot | womanism |