concentration of isolation

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    • Students are not allowed to use outside sources for the test – you can consult the course materials and your notes.
    • You should spend about 2 hours on the test.
    • If the test is not submitted on time, two points will be deducted for each late day.
    • The test is worth 25 points.
    • Support your ideas with specific references to the material you have read and studied.
    • Make sure that you have a brief introduction and conclusion to your essay.
    • Leave some time at the end for revision; correct errors of grammar, spelling and punctuation.

     

    Part I, 15 points – Identify five (5) of the following terms. If it’s the name of a character or place, provide the title of the story in which it appears, and a very brief explanation of its significance or function within the text.

     

    1. “a lost generation” 5. Alice B. Toklas
    2. Hadley 6. concentration of isolation
    3. Emil

    4.“He was not really disappointed to find Paris was so empty. But the stillness in the Ritz bar was strange and portentous. It was not an American bar any more. . . . It had gone back into France.”

     

    Part II, 10 points – Answer one (1) essay question. Be as specific as you can in your discussion: focus on interpretation and analysis and provide examples to illustrate your points. Be sure not to provide plot summaries.

     

    1. In Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing and American Identity, J. Gerald Kennedy observes:

     

    Ironically, as these writers work to construct new identities abroad, most betray a preoccupation with those American surroundings from which they have emerged. . . . But their principal orientation is towards Paris, which supplies symbolic materials for the construction of an expatriate self. Through features of place, each writer figures a relation to the city which clarifies an emergent identity made possible by the conditions of exile.

     

    Show how Kennedy’s assessment applies to both Stein and Hemingway, and provide specific examples from the text that support your statements.

     

     

    1. Discuss literary modernism in Stein’s Paris France and Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast Feast,

     providing specific examples to support your statements.

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