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University of Warwick
Summer Examinations 2015
Devolutionary British Fiction Exam: Finalists
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Time allowed: 2 hours
Seen Examination
Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the
particulars required are entered on each answer book.
Do not substantially repeat material from assessed essays or substantially use the
same author for both parts.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Answer TWO questions, each on at least TWO course texts.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. What kinds of issues are raised by descriptions of housing?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. Describe the process of remapping an area or environment.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. How does sectarianism trouble, support, or interrupt the national in course
texts?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4. How does the imperial image of London differ from actual life in London?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5. To what extent can course texts be understood within a framework of
multiculturalism?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6. In what ways do course texts show the state mobilising against a perceived
threat?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7. In what ways do ideas of race interact with social class? Try to be as
contextually specific as you can.
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8. How is the spectre of an Irish republic a problem for British values?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9. Explore the role of fragmented narratives in at least two texts.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10. Describe how the themes of course texts feed into the debates surrounding
the 1979 devolution referendums or the 2014 independence referendum.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Make a case for the inclusion of any one new text on this course.
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