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American
Literature: Romanticism Model Assignments Student Final Exam Samples 2016 final exam assignment |
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Mid-length essay (4-6
paragraphs): Review & prioritize your learning in
American Romanticism.
Peter
Becnel,
Revealing Genre Constructions
Liz Davis, An Evaluation of American Romanticism
Caryn Livingston, Marginalized America: the New Romantics
Michael Osborne, Romanticism and Realism Reconfigured:
An Important Lesson
Umaymah Shahid
Long Essay Questions
1. Why do “desire and loss” re-appear so frequently in American Romantic texts . . . ?
Liz
Davis
2. How has American Romanticism continued or changed in post-Romantic American literature? . . .
Peter Becnel,
Containing the Romantic Impulse
Caryn Livingston,
Adapting the Romantic: Individualism
in a Modernist World
3. . . . Romanticism must adapt to a multi-racial and multicultural nation . . . .
4. Review and evaluate varieties of the Gothic . . .
Peter Becnel, The Usefulness of
the Gothic
Caryn
Livingston,
Gothic and Racial Anxieties in American Romanticism
Umaymah Shahid, Using
the Gothic to Tap into Social and Mental Fears, Anxieties, and Shortcomings
5. Review and defend Romantic Poetry as an essential medium for American Romanticism . . . .
6. The "romance narrative" . . .
Michael Osborne, That which is
Sought Should Not Always Be Found: Exploring the Romance Narrative
Umaymah
Shahid, The Romance Narrative and its Shift Through Time
7. Some persistent or occasional issue, problem, or theme significant to the course but overlooked by the previous questions.
