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Textbook: The Norton Anthology of American Literature Vol 1 (A,B) Ninth Edition 2017
Final Exam Eng 341
Write 500-word essays on any two of the following. Your essays will be graded on accuracy, completeness, originality, and quality and clarity of expression. Whenever possible you may substitute the author you researched independently for one of the listed options. Be sure to write two essays and to confine your comments to authors and works listed on the syllabus.
1. Much of American li terature is autobiographical in varying degrees. Examine the autobiographical impulse in three of the following works and develop a thesis concerning the ways that they contrast in this respect.
Franklin. The Autobiography
Whitman. Song of Myself
Douglass. Narrative
Any of Dickinson’s poems.
Thoreau. Walden
Melville. “Bartleby” or Moby Dick
2. By referring specifically to the lives and at least one work by each of the following writers, develop a thesis concerning the difficulties involved in being a woman and a writer in early America.
Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
Rebecca Harding Davis, or Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Our relationship with nature is a concern of many American writers. What varying attitudes toward nature are represented in three of the following writers? Refer to specific works.
Emerson
Whitman
Dickinson or Bradstreet
Thoreau
Melville
4. Assume you are asked to define morality and can only use examples drawn from three of the following writers to illustrate your definition. Write such a definition.
Hawthorne or Melville
Whitman
Douglass
Davis
Poe
5. Breaking free of traditional form (literary innovation) is a hallmark of the romantic writer–to what extent is each of the following strikingly original? Discuss a specific work of each in classifying these writers from least to most original.
Poe or Melville
Whitman
Dickinson
Thoreau
6. Our relationship to God is a concern of many writers–to what extent are three of the following uniquely concerned with this relationship?
Edwards. “Sinners in the Hands of God
Whitman. “Song of Myself
Dickinson. Any two poems.
Franklin
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Final Exam Eng 341 C. Barrette
Write 500-word essays on any two of the following. Your essays will be graded on accuracy, completeness, originality, and quality and clarity of expression. Whenever possible you may substitute the author you researched independently for one of the listed options. Be sure to write two essays and to confine your comments to authors and works listed on the syllabus.
1. Much of American literature is autobiographical in varying degrees. Examine the autobiographical impulse in three of the following works and develop a thesis concerning the ways that they contrast in this respect.
Franklin. The Autobiography
Whitman. Song of Myself
Douglass. Narrative
Any of Dickinson’s poems.
Thoreau. Walden
Melville. “Bartleby” or Moby Dick
2. By referring specifically to the lives and at least one work by each of the following writers, develop a thesis concerning the difficulties involved in being a woman and a writer in early America.
Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
Rebecca Harding Davis, or Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Our relationship with nature is a concern of many American writers. What varying attitudes toward nature are represented in three of the following writers? Refer to specific works.
Emerson
Whitman
Dickinson or Bradstreet
Thoreau
Melville
4. Assume you are asked to define morality and can only use examples drawn from three of the following writers to illustrate your definition. Write such a definition.
Hawthorne or Melville
Whitman
Douglass
Davis
Poe
5. Breaking free of traditional form (literary innovation) is a hallmark of the romantic writer–to what extent is each of the following strikingly original? Discuss a specific work of each in classifying these writers from least to most original.
Poe or Melville
Whitman
Dickinson
Thoreau
6. Our relationship to God is a concern of many writers–to what extent are three of the following uniquely concerned with this relationship?
Edwards. “Sinners in the Hands of God
Whitman. “Song of Myself
Dickinson. Any two poems.
Franklin
