РК2 ЛСИЯ

Вопросы для рубежного контроля 2 по ЛСИЯ

Учебник: Н.П. Михальская История английской литературы, М., 2007

1. Jonathan Swift as the greatest English satirist of the XVIII th. c. The main periods of his creative activity. The particularities of his writing style.

2. Political pamphlets of Jonathan Swift, the allegorical method of representation of reality.

3. How did Jonathan Swift satirize English society through Gulliver's Travels? Give your examples.

4. The main voyages of Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels by J. Swift, satirical images of English reality.

5. The image of Gulliver in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel. Analyse his character.

6. The variety of genres in Gulliver’s Travels by J. Swift. Satire as the main means of describing of English reality.

7. What is the allegorical significance of the floating island of Laputa?

8. How do the Lilliputians view the threat that Gulliver represents?

9. What human invention does Gulliver propose to the king of Brobdingnag that the king finds revolting? The image of an ideal king.

10. The last voyage of Gulliver to the country of the Houyhnhnms as an example of anti-utopia.

11. Why does Gulliver want to stay with the Houyhnhnms? Does his desire make sense in light of the other societies he has visited?

12. Swift’s satirical attack to science, learning, and abstract thought in the 3rd part of Gulliver’s Travels, a critique of excessive rationalism, or reliance on theory, during the Enlightenment.

13. The mature period of the Enlightenment. The development of the genre of novel in this period: the novels of S. Richardson, H. Fielding, T.S. Smollet, their main particularities (in general).

14. Epistolary novels of Samuel Richardson, their main particularities.

15. Henry Fielding’s novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling as ‘a comic epic in prose’, the new themes and heroes.

16. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding as the highest achievement of Enlightenment realistic novel in English literature, its main particularities.

17. The particularities of sentimentalism on the example of Laurence Sterne’s novel “A sentimental Journey through France and Italy”.

18. Jane Austen’s creative activity, her novels of sensibility, the main characteristics.

19. Robert Burns and his poetry. The particularities of his poetic style, the main ideas and themes.

20. Humor and satire in Robert Burn’s poetry.

21. Romanticism in English Literature, poetic schools and their representatives.

22. The main ideas of Lake Poets, the significance of Lyrical Ballads as the manifesto of English Romanticism.

23. Revolutionary romanticism of Lord Byron, his creative activity and the main literary works.

24. The conception of ‘Byronic Hero’ and “World Sorrow” in English Romanticism.

25. Lord Byron’s epic poem Don Juan: the images of the main hero and the author.

26. The main hero in Don Juan by Byron, his differences from the legendary Don Juan.

27. English historical novel. The contribution of Walter Scott to the development of this genre. Scott’s main historical novels and their particularities.

28. The development of English novel in Victorian period. The artistic method of Critical Realism and the main novelists of that period.

29. The main periods of creative activity of Charles Dickens. The significance of his contribution to English Literature.

30. Dombey and Son by Ch. Dickens: the main ideas, themes and personages.

31. The character of Mr Dombey as the embodiment of bourgeois psychology.

32. How can social harmony come to be achieved in the world of Dombey and Son by Dickens?

33. How important to the novel has been the presence of minor characters, such as Mrs. Chick, Toots and Susan Nipper?

34. Social problems revealed in Ch. Dickens’s novel The Adventures of Oliver Twist, Dickens’s ways to improve English society.

35. Thomas Hardy as a critical realist, the peculiarities of his realism. The main problems in his novel “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”.

36. The main periods of William Thackeray’s creative activity, his manner of character’s portrayal.

37. William Makepeace Thackeray’s attack upon the snobbery and social values of the time in “Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero”, the main problems of the novel.

38. The author’s view on the bourgeois society in Vanity Fair. Give your examples.

39. The title, composition and structure of W. Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair.

40. Analyse the images of two main heroines in W. Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair.

41. Aestheticism in English literature. The cult of Beauty in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

42. The main conflict of The Picture of Dorian Gray by O. Wilde. Dwell upon the main character.

43. The conception of hedonism in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

44. Charlotte Bronte, her contribution to the English social novel. The main themes of Jane Eyre.

45. Charlotte Bronte’s main heroine in Jane Eyre as a sample of high morality and duty.

46. Naturalism in English literature, its main themes and representatives.

47. Literature of English Neo-romanticism, its representatives, the main themes and a new hero.

48. Neo-romanticism of R.L. Stevenson, his main adventure novels and the reasons of their popularity.

49. Rudyard Kipling’s creative activity, his attitude to British Empire expressed in poetry and prose.

50. English Socialistic Literature. The creative activity of E.L. Voynich, the novel The Gadfly as anti-clerical novel.

51. Herbert Wells as a founder of the genre of science fiction, the particularity of his style.

52. English Modernism, its philosophic and aesthetic basis. The main representatives of this literary movement, new themes.

53. The contribution of George Bernard Shaw to the development of New English Drama.

54. Bernard Shaw’s cycle of Unpleasant Plays. The new themes in New Drama. The main conflict of The Widowers’ Houses by B. Shaw.

55. Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Comment on the main female characters.