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2010/11 Exams: Specialist Studies in 20th Century Literature - Moore and Yeats, Exams of Literature

An examination paper from the national university of ireland, galway, for the en387 course on specialist studies in twentieth century literature. The paper focuses on the works of authors moore and yeats, with two sections each containing five questions. Students are required to answer two questions, one from each section, within two hours. Topics such as the style of confessions of a young man by moore, the attitudes of the untilled field towards ireland, the political significance of yeats's poetry, and the representation of women in the works of both authors.

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OLLSCOIL NA hÉIREANN, GAILLIMH
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
SECOND SITTING EXAMINATIONS, 2010/11
THIRD & FOURTH ARTS EXAMINATION
EN387 Specialist Studies: Twentieth Century Literature
Professor S. Matterson
Professor H. Phillips
Professor S. Ryder
Professor A. Frazier
Dr. V. Nolan
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS
THIS EXAMINATION PAPER HAS TWO SECTIONS
YOU MUST ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS: ONE FROM EACH SECTION
USE A SEPARATE ANSWER BOOK FOR EACH SECTION
Do not repeat substantially material already offered for assessment on this
course or elsewhere. Write each of your answers on a different text.
SECTION A: MOORE AND YEATS
1. Confessions of a Young Man has a style that can be described, and it also has many
different styles. Explain this paradox.
2. Moore exhibits various male conceptions of love and women in Confessions of a
Young Man. Do these include the attitude to women and love expressed in the early
love poetry of Yeats?
3. The Untilled Field is technically a part of the Irish Literary Revival. Are its
attitudes to Ireland those of a nationalist? Discuss at least two stories in your answer.
4. Debates continue about the degree to which Cathleen ni Houlihan is Yeats’s work
(Lady Gregory and others collaborated). In what ways does it differ from On Baile’s
Strand and Deirdre?
5. Yeats is the great political poet of 20th century English poetry. Illustrate the merits
of his public poetry by an examination of three poems written before 1917.
P.T.O.
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OLLSCOIL NA hÉIREANN, GAILLIMH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

SECOND SITTING EXAMINATIONS, 2010/ THIRD & FOURTH ARTS EXAMINATION

EN387 Specialist Studies: Twentieth Century Literature

Professor S. Matterson Professor H. Phillips Professor S. Ryder Professor A. Frazier Dr. V. Nolan

TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS

THIS EXAMINATION PAPER HAS TWO SECTIONS

YOU MUST ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS: ONE FROM EACH SECTION

USE A SEPARATE ANSWER BOOK FOR EACH SECTION

Do not repeat substantially material already offered for assessment on this course or elsewhere. Write each of your answers on a different text.

SECTION A: MOORE AND YEATS

1. Confessions of a Young Man has a style that can be described, and it also has many different styles. Explain this paradox.

  1. Moore exhibits various male conceptions of love and women in Confessions of a Young Man. Do these include the attitude to women and love expressed in the early love poetry of Yeats?
  2. The Untilled Field is technically a part of the Irish Literary Revival. Are its attitudes to Ireland those of a nationalist? Discuss at least two stories in your answer.
  3. Debates continue about the degree to which Cathleen ni Houlihan is Yeats’s work (Lady Gregory and others collaborated). In what ways does it differ from On Baile’s Strand and Deirdre?
  4. Yeats is the great political poet of 20th^ century English poetry. Illustrate the merits of his public poetry by an examination of three poems written before 1917.

P.T.O.

SECTION B: YEATS and JOYCE

  1. Discuss the importance of politics to Yeats’s poetry and consider how his representation of political material changed during his career.
  2. Using evidence from the poetry, examine the importance of the occult to Yeats as both a personal belief system and a source of poetic symbol.
  3. With reference to ‘Araby’ and ‘A Painful Case’, examine Joyce’s representation of women in his shorter fiction.
  4. With reference to at least two stories from Dubliners , discuss Joyce’s attempt to portray the many different facets of Dublin city in his day.
  5. Compare and contrast the autobiographical aspects of Gabriel in ‘The Dead’ and Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist.
  6. With reference to both Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist , discuss the principal characteristics of Joyce’s style.

END