Atmosphere-Final Exam Solution

Final Exam (not same as 3^rd Paper, p. 11, Syllabus, for guidelines)

With the definitions cited below in mind, in an essay of at least 400 words (around 200 words for each) discuss the ATMOSPHERE in two readings from the list below. Please also quote from each reading a passage of about 50 words in support of your argument, as well as using and underlining 5 literary terms from the list below (a total of 5, not 5 for each reading)

“Atmosphere: The prevailing tone or mood of a literary work, particularly—but not exclusively—when that mood is established in part by setting or landscape. It is, however, not simply setting but rather the emotional aura which the work bears and which establishes the reader’s expectations and attitudes.”

— Hibbard, Addison & William Flint Thrall, A Handbook to Literature. Rev. and enlarged by C. Hugh Holman. New York: Odyssey Press, 1960.

“Atmosphere is the mood pervading a literary work, setting up in the reader expectations as to the course of events, whether happy or (more commonly) disastrous.”

–Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 1^st edition. New York: Holt Rhinehart, 1957.

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Readings List (choose two)

18^th Century (Enlightenment) Novel, Voltaire, Candide, pp. 257-319.

Week 9: 19^th Century Russian Fiction, Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, pp. 660-737

19^th Century German Epic (Theatre), Goethe, Faust “Prologue in Heaven”, and Part I, pp. 353-403

Week 10: Goethe, Faust, Part I, pp. 403-468.

20^th Century Anglophone Fiction, Conrad, Heart of Darkness, pp. 898-959.

Week 11: Naturalism in Literature, European Naturalist Theatre; Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, pp. 807-867. Second Paper (Research Critique) Due, 11/14**

19^th Century French Poetry: Baudelaire, pp. 555-569.

Week 12: T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”, and The Waste Land, pp. 1147-1167.

Week 13: Women in Literature, 17^th to 20^th Century, Behn pp. 192-242; Woolf, 1082-1117

Dickinson, pp. 570-75; Akhmatova, pp. 1168-1177.

Week 14: Modernism and Literature, James Joyce, The Dead, pp. 963-992 .

12/10**: Last Class. Review for Final Exam; Kafka, The Metamorphosis, pp. 992-1027. Third Paper Due*

Literary Terms: Use and Underline a total of 5 (list continues next page)