Textual Analysis of Literary Passages by Virginia Woolf and Others - Prof. Vericat Pérez-M, Exámenes de Literatura inglesa

¡Descarga Textual Analysis of Literary Passages by Virginia Woolf and Others - Prof. Vericat Pérez-M y más Exámenes en PDF de Literatura inglesa solo en Docsity! Introducción a los Textos Literarios en Lengua Inglesa. Jueves 16 Junio, 2014 (15:00 h) Duración: 2 horas Profesor: Fabio L. Vericat Answer THREE questions, at least ONE from Section A and ONE from Section B. Each question carries the same amount of marks. Section A: Essay: 1. “Life escapes; and perhaps without life nothing else is worth while. It is a confession of vagueness to have to make use of such a figure as this, but we scarcely better the matter by speaking, as critics are prone to do, of reality.” Virginia Woolf, ‘Modern Fiction’ Why might ‘life’ be a better word than ‘reality’ for Virginia Woolf? 2. “In humble imitation of a prudent course, universally adopted by aeronauts, the author of these volumes throws them up as his pilot balloon, trusting it may catch favourable current, and devoutly and earnestly hoping it may go off well a sentiment in which his Publisher cordially concurs.” Charles Dickens, Preface to Sketches by Oz 1 Consider the significance of the “pilot balloon” as a way to understand Dickens’s struggle to merge journalism and narrative fiction in Sketches by Oz. 3. “To whom I answered that divers men hold opinion that there was no such. Arthur and that all such books as been made of him been but feigned and fables, because that some chronicles make of him no mention ne remember him nothing, ne of his knights.” William Caxton’s Preface to Morte Darthur By printing what was originally a series of romances about a king called Arthur, was Caxton trying to give it historical validity? In which way did it open the way for the modern novel? PLEASE TURN OVER Section B: Close Reading: Contextualize the passage within the work as a whole and point out its general significance. You should pay particular attention to both literary form as well as the narrative mode as used by the author in each case. 1. […]--I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.--That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other gifts 1