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Assignment 1 - 1500 words

TEXTS AVAILABLE:

1-OROONOKO

2-ROBINSON CRUSOE

3-MEMORIES OF A JUSTIFIED SINER

Genre Studies: Midterm questions

Write a 1,500-word essay on ONE of the following questions.. Each essay should address TWO of the texts covered by the first half of the course. All essays must be properly referenced and include both an overall word count and a coversheet pasted into the first page of your document. Marks will be deducted for failure to properly reference primary texts.NUIG English uses the MLA style of referencing - that is, intext citation, not footnotes

QUESTIONS

• 'Racial classification is based not on colour alone but displacement from the place of origin' (Azim, The Colonial Rise of the Novel). Write on the ways in which TWO of the texts you've studied explore race and/or displacement.
• 'Novels that openly distrust direct testimony and produce circumstantial evidence provide a stronger representation of reality than first-person accounts.' Analyse this statement with reference to TWO texts on your course thus far.
• How do TWO texts from the first part of the course interrogate the power of naming?
• 'The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it:' (Robinson Crusoe). Analyse the significance of truth claims in TWO novels.
• 'Gothic is...proliferative...it tells stories, it tells stories within stories, it repeats itself'. Use this quote to discuss generic instability OR narratorial unreliability in TWO texts you have studied.
• 'Rather than romance producing false novelties, it seems that empirical novelties create romance effects' (Svrinivas Aravamudan). Write on romance in TWO of the novels you have studied.
• 'God had miraculously caused His grain to grow without help of seed sown, and that it was so directed purely for my sustenance on that wild, miserable place' (Defoe, Robinson Crusoe). What role does religious belief play in TWO of the novels you have studied.
• Write on the impact of ONE of the following genres on TWO novels on the course thus far: travel writing; spiritual autobiography; memoirs.

Assignment 2 - 1500 words

TEXTS AVAILABLE:

'The Sisters'from Dubliners by James Joyce Cultural Revival in Ireland Dubliners by James Joyce

The Playboy of the Western World by J. M.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey )

You must use one of the following quotations as your essay title. They are offered to you as a inspirational prompt to enable you to discuss key aspects of the course. For instance, you may wish to explore a quotation in relation to any of the following: gender, nation, language, modernity, tradition, exile, home, urban and rural space, isolation, religion, representation, identity, and so on.

1. - There were no words, said Gabriel moodily, only she wanted me to go for a trip to the west of Ireland and I said that I wouldn't. James Joyce: from 'The Dead', Dubliners (1914)

2. The folk life, the country life, is nature with her abundance, but the art life, the town life, is the spirit which is sterile when it is not married to nature. W.B. Yeats: from unused 'Preface' to Ideas of Good and Evil (1902)

3. 'Is not style born out of the shock of new material?' J.M. Synge to W.B.Yeats: from W.B. Yeats, Autobiographies (1961).

4. Yet if you took the hero out of the story, what was left? [...] The heroine, as such, was utterly passive. She was Ireland or Hibernia. She was a mother or a virgin. Eavan Boland: from Object Lessons (1995)

5. Still I think out of the dreary sameness of existence, a measure of dramatic life may be drawn. Even the most commonplace, the deadest among the living, may play a part in a great drama. James Joyce: from 'Drama and Life' (essay read at university, 1900)

6. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language [...] mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophus (1922)

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