QUESTIONS FOR THE SELF-CONTROL

1. The historical background of the origin and development of the National literature in America. The development of the American language.

2. The Puritan influence on the literature in America.

3. American Indians and American Indian literature.

4. American literature of the early colonial period: John Smith, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, William Byrd, Edward Taylor, Jonathan Edwards, Robert Beverley and others.

5. A New Nation before the Revolution. The Age of Reason in American literature. Writing and Revolution (1775-1783).

6. The Dawning of a National literature.

7. The writers of the Age of Reason: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine.

8. American poetry of the Revolutionary period: Philip Freneau and Phillis Wheatley.

9. The beginning of Romanticism in American literature. Characteristics of Romanticism. Three periods of American Romanticism.

10. Washington Irving is a writer of the Age of Reason as well as of

Romanticism.

11. James Fenimore Cooper - a writer of Romanticism, the creator of the American historical novel.

12. Pentalogy The Leather-Stocking Tales by J. F. Cooper. Principal ideas of the cycle. Natty Bumpoo - the first Anerican Romantic.

13. William Cullen Bryant and his “Thanatopsis”.

14. Romantic poet - Edgar Allan Poe. The peculiarities of his poetry. The ideas expressed through the lyrical personage of the poem "The Raven". The poem "Sonnet - to Science" is typical of American Romanticism.

15. Main themes and images in the poetic works of E. A. Poe.

16. Romantic features in the prose writing of E. A. Poe. Types of his stories. Poe's aesthetic principles and literary method.

17. The Transcendentalist movement in American Literature.

18. The Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance.

19. Henry David Thoreau as a representative of the Transcendentalist movement.

20. Ethical and moral values, psychological exploration of human soul in the novel Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

21. The essence of romantic inquiry in the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

22. The Fireside poets: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John GreenleafWhittier.

23. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry. The main idea of "The Song of Hiawatha".

24. Walt Whitman and his songs as America's new self-portrait. Main themes of his collection of poems Leaves of Grass.

25. Emily Dickinson as a link between her era and the literary sensitivities of the turn of the century.

26. The Abolition Literature: Harriet Beecher-Stowe.

27. Realism in American literature.

28. Bret Harte - a writer of the gold-rush pehod in America. His works and aesthetic principles.

29. Regionalism and Regional writers: Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins, Hamlin Garland.

30. Theodore Dreiser, problems and characters of the novels S/srer Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt

31. Theodore Dreiser and The American Tragedy.

32. Mark Twain is the internationally known literary artist and style of his writings.

33. Mark Twain's works The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

34. The ideas of the novel The Gilded Age by Mark Twain.

35. Jack London as an American phenomenon.

36. Jack London's aesthetics.

37. Problems of the novel Martin Eden by Jack London.

38. The chief idea of Jack London's Love of Life and White Fang.

39. The Era of Modernism in American literature.

40. The Lost Generation in American literature.

41. The development of the American Novel (1910-1930). The Modern Short Story: Sherwood Anderson.

42. Modern Poetry: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost.

43. Robert Frost's poetry: aesthetic principles, language, and themes.

44. Langston Hughes and his works.

45. F. S. Fitzgerald and the American Myth.

46. The epoch and the character of E. Hemingway.

47. War books A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls by E.M.Hemingway-their ideas and principal characters.

48. E. Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

49. John Updike's tragedies.

50. S. Lewis and his Main Street.

51. Fiction of Stephen Crane.

52. The Civil War in American history and literature.

53. The Literature of Crisis and Post World War II literature.

54. Postwar poetry: W. H. Auden, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks. Experimental poetry.

55. John Steinbeck: between good and evil. The Grapes of Wrath.

56. William Faulkner-a typical representative of the School of Humanism.

57. American Drama: Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman.

58. O. Henry - the most popular American snort story writer at the turn of the century. His ideas on art and literature.

59. Jerome David Salinger. The theme of the novel The Catcher in the Rye and its pricipal character.

60. The Contemporary Experience of American Literature, its authenticity. John Cheever, Truman Capote, Harper Lee.

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