7/25/2019 Model Subiect 2016

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SUBIECT I:

1) Define Modernism and comment upon conditions under which it is produced as

considered by Matei CainescuinFive Faces of Modernity. !"#$%&'

") (hat is metafiction !1#$%&

*) Discuss the contemporary use of +historio,raphic metafiction- startin, from

the te.t beow[2.50]:But theres another theory of reality, children, quite different from that which found its way into

my fraught after-school meeting with ewis. !ealitys not strange, not une"#ected. !eality

doesnt reside in the sudden hallucination of e$ents. !eality is une$entfulness, $acancy, flatness.

!eality is that nothing ha##ens. %ow many of the e$ents of history ha$e occurred, as&

yoursel$es, for this and for that reason, 'ut for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to

ma&e things ha##en( ) #resent to you %istory, the fa'rication, the di$ersion, the reality-o'scuring

drama. %istory, and its near relati$e, %istrionics.* +raham wift, Waterland.

SUBIECT II/1# Discuss Modernist con/entions of 0eaism in ord 2im by 2oseph

Conrad# !"#$%&

"# Define +postmodern sensibiity- !1#$%&

2. Comment on modernist writers3 /iews of the +pro4ect of modernity- startin,from the e.cerpt beow 5D#6# awrence3s The Rainbow)[2.50]/

he saw the stiffened 'odies of the colliers, which seemed already enclosed in a coffin, she

saw their unchanging eyes, the eyes of those who are 'uried ali$e/ she saw the hard, cutting

edges of the new houses, which seemed to s#read o$er the hillside in their insentient trium#h,

the trium#h of horri'le, amor#hous angles and straight lines, the e"#ression of corru#tiontrium#hant and uno##osed, corru#tion so #ure that it is hard and 'rittle/ she saw the dun

atmos#here o$er the 'lac&ened hills o##osite, the dar& 'lotches of houses, slate roofed and

amor#hous, the old churchtower standing u# in hideous o'soleteness a'o$e raw new houses

on the crest of the hill, the amor#hous, 'rittle, hard edged new houses ad$ancing fromBeldo$er to meet the corru#t new houses from ethley, the houses of ethley ad$ancing to

mi" with the houses of %ainor, a dry, 'rittle, terri'le corru#tion s#reading o$er the face of the

land, and she was sic& with a nausea so dee# that she #erished as she sat. 1nd then, in the

'lowing clouds, she saw a 'and of faint iridescence colouring in faint colours a #ortion of the

hill. 1nd forgetting, startled, she loo&ed for the ho$ering colour and saw a rain'ow forming

itself[] he saw in the rain'ow the earths new architecture, the old, 'rittle corru#tion of

houses and factories swe#t away, the world 'uilt u# in a li$ing fa'ric of 3ruth, fitting the

o$er-arching hea$en.*