Joyce
• Why can The Dubliners be regarded as a highly innovative work?
• Discuss Joyce’s relationship with Dublin and how the feeling of “paralysis” he associates with his hometown is developed in The Dubliners.
• Referring to a passage you have read, explain and discuss Joyce’s idea of “epiphany”.
• Illustrate Gretta’s epiphany at the end of the party.
• Discuss the characteristics of interior monologue used by Joyce in Ulysses.
Woolf
• Explain Wollf’s use of parenthesis in Mrs Dalloway.
• Which original features of Mrs Dalloway and which aspefts of Virginia Woolf’s personality does Michael Cunningham preserve to complete his “rewriting” of Mrs Dalloway in The Hours?
Huxley
• Explain John’s role in Brave New World
• Why is Brave New World often described as a “prophetic book”?
Orwell
• What kind of society does Orwell describe in Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Modernist Poetry
• Who were the War Poets?
Eliot
• According to Eliot modern poetry has to be “difficult”. What makes Modernist poetry difficult?
• How does Eliot describe the crisis of modern man?
