OLLSCOIL Na hÉIREANN, GAILLIMH
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
AUTUMN EXAMINATIONS, 2007/08
SECOND ARTS EXAMINATION
EN 267: Studies in Genres and their Histories
Professor A.Minnis
Professor G. Watson
Professor H. McDermott
Dr. M.-L. Coolahan
Dr. P. Lonergan
AVOID DUPLICATION OF MATERIAL
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
Answer TWO questions: one from each section
USE A SEPARATE ANSWERBOOK FOR EACH SECTION
Section A: Fiction and Poetry
Write an essay analysing one of the following. Reference should be made to at least
two course authors.
1. ‘However preoccupied with describing strange lands and peoples, the traveller cannot
avoid drawing lessons about her/his own culture.’ Do you agree?
2. ‘The Author is here suppos’d to be writing her own History, and in the very beginning
of her Account, she gives the Reasons why she thinks fit to conceal her true Name’
(Preface, Moll Flanders). Write an essay on truthfulness and the eighteenth-century
novel.
3. ‘Eighteenth-century writers argue vociferously over the nature of women.’ Discuss.
4. ‘Satire exposes the gulf between the ideal and the morally reprehensible.’ Do you
agree?
5. ‘No eighteenth-century text can be defined by a single genre’. Discuss.
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