Course Grading Standards

Your grade for the course is based on the following performances:

Short Essay (20% of grade)
Oral Report, Reading Responses on the Class Blog, and Class Participation (15%)
Long Essay (40%)
Final Exam (25%)

Grades have been delayed, and will be posted by Tuesday, May 25th.

May 14: Mrs. Dalloway

Garrison Keillor commemorates Mrs Dalloway today (anniversary of publication):

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

Final Exam: May 13th--See recent note, added 5/8

Eng. 753
Spring '10
Twentieth-Century Literature Exam: May 13th, 5:00-6:10.

Additional note: Be sure to review the three readings on reading by Proust, Woolf and Bowen.


The Final Exam will consist of short paragraph-long definitions that relate to the terms below and to authors read this semester (Carroll, Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Bowen, Schlink).

Terms to consider in relation to works read this semester:

Modernism: what are some of the subjects focused upon and narrative techniques of modernist authors

Modernity (inventions, changes in cultural, everyday life during this period)

Realism

Victorian Period

Postmodernism

Time: memory, the moment (moment of being, epiphany)

Space

Class

Speed (cars, trains, airplanes, telegrams, radio)

Consciousness (mind, memory, dreams, nightmares, hallucinations)

Religion

Sexuality (homosexuality, marriage, gender relations)

War (World War I & II)

Gender (women’s changing roles, the marriage plot, women’s cultural and economic exclusion)

Narrative techniques (interior monologue, quoted monologue, narrated monologue, omniscient narrator, stream of consciousness, parody, quotation, new forms of the novel)

Approximate dates of Victorian, Modernist, Postmodernist periods; authors read this semester (Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Bowen, Carroll); world wars