September 2024
LEA ESTAS INSTRUCCIONES CON ATENCION ANTES DE EMPEZAR
El examen sera contestado en inglés de manera precisa y ateniéndose siempre al
contenido de la pregunta. Para aprobar el examen es necesario contestar correctamente
todas las partes de éste (“Part A” y “Part B”), siguiendo las directrices que se indican en
ambas.
La valoracion de cada pregunta sera la siguiente:
Comentario de texto: 4 puntos.
Preguntas tipo ensayo: 3 puntos por pregunta.
No se permitira el uso del diccionario o de cualquier otro tipo de material
complementario.
PART A: TEXT COMMENTARY
Comment on the following text, taking into consideration the most significant formal
and thematic aspects, and the interrelationship between them both:
He said, “I think I know your mother. You have a true look of your mother”.
“No one else says that. I think I look like my father. My father is strong and kind
and takes me riding like the wind’.
“T think you have a look of your father too”, he said then, and put his arms around
her waist, very matter-of-fact and brief, so as not to frighten her, and lifted her down onto
his side. They sat there on a hummock and talked, in a cloud of butterflies, as he
remembered it with absolute clarity, and she remembered it more and more vaguely, as
the century ran on. Beetles ran about their feet, jet and emerald. She told him about her
pleasant life, here amusements, her ambitions. He said, “You seem extremely happy”,
and she said, “Oh yes,
Iam, Iam”. And then he sat quietly for a moment or two, and she
asked him if he could make daisy chains.
“T will make you a crown’, he said. “A crown for a May Queen. But you must
give me something in exchange” [...]. “Oh, just a lock of hair—a very fine one—to
remember you by”.
“Like a fairy story”.
“Just so”.
PART B:
Choose TWO out of the three following topics and write coherent essays on them.
Substantiate your answers with relevant examples taken from the literary works
referred to:
1- Comment on the representation of otherness in ‘British’ postmodern poetry. Exemplify
your arguments with at least three poems studied this year
2- Discuss the role of Western stereotypes in “The Prophet’s Hair” and “My Son the
Fanatic”.
3- Examine the representation of alienation in The Dumb Waiter and Time ’s Arrow.