LITR 4232 American Renaissance

2012 final examIndex to Sample Answers
(final exam assignment)

A. Mid-length essays

A1. Review & prioritize your learning in American Renaissance.

Joe Bernard, "Context, Color and Children"

Velma Laborde, "American Renaissance Course: Completing Perspectives"

Shellie Saenz, "American RenaissanceWhat Now?"

Ashley Rhodes, "Rumor Has It"

Angela Sims, "Surprising Connections"

OR describe your learning about Romanticism as a term or concept . . .

April Bucy, "The Everyday Romantic (ism)"

Tracie Estrada, "Escapism is the ingredient that makes Romanticism Sweet"

Stephanie Taylor, "The Inescapable Romantic"

 

A2. Mid-length essay on 1 or 2 terms or subjects: 

 

 


B. Long Essay Questions

B1. Essay Question 1. the Gothic & its various characteristics and uses

April Bucy, "The Gothic—Helping the World get Haunted one House at a Time"

Tracie Estrada, "The Gothic is the Perfect Accompaniment to a Well Written Story"

Velma Laborde, "Meaning in the Macabre"

Dorothy Noyes, "Spooky Selections: The Gothic in American Renaissance Literature"

Shellie Saenz, "Gothic Here, Gothic There, Gothic, Gothic Everywhere!" (excerpts)

B2. Essay question 2. Moral problems depicted vividly and significantly but without simple, reductive moral judgment.

Velma Laborde, Lincoln’s Morality

B3. Essay question 3. How has American Renaissance literature developed your ideas of history, or history your idea of literature?

Jennifer Lawrence, "A Discovery of the Past"

Angela Sims, "Finding Historical Truth through Fiction"

B4. Essay question 4. classic, popular, and representative authors and literature i

Joe Bernard, "Reading for Category?"

Tracie Estrada, "An Equal Blend of Classic, Popular, and Representative Literature is the Key to Unlocking Students' Learning"

Valerie Mead, "ClassiReprePop Literature: Shades of Grey in Categorizing Works from the American Renaissance"

Dorothy Noyes, "Blurring Boundaries: The Separation of the Classical, Popular, and Representative"

Angela Sims, "The View from Over Here"

B5. Essay question 5. Describe, compare, and contrast poems by Whitman and Dickinson

April Bucy, "The Lyric and the Catalog: A Parable of Poetry"

Andy Feith, "Emily Dickinson and the Good Grey Poet"