- Gender and Identity Reform in Shakespeare’s Plays: Discuss how Shakespeare has dealt with the issue of gender roles and identity in “Twelfth Night,” “Macbeth,” and “Hamlet.”
- Postcolonial Themes in the Writing of Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie: Discuss how postcolonial themes have been represented and the impact of colonialism examined in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
- The Gothic Novel: Trace the development from Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” to present-day Gothic fiction.
- The Role of Nature in Romantic Poetry: Discuss how the Romantic poets, not forgetting William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats, deliberately configure nature in relation to its impacts upon the human’s emotions and spirituality.
- Modernism and Stream of Consciousness Technique: Explain stream of consciousness taken up by the following three classical practitioners of it, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, in this order.
- Representation of social class in Victorian literature. Discuss how writers tackled the issue of social class and the working-class struggle in Victorian England.
- Feminist Perspectives: Work of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath: Analyze feminist themes and the breadth of the experience of women in Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” with Plath’s “The Bell Jar.”
- Influence of Mythology in Contemporary Literature: Discuss and analyze how writers of today’s era have been influenced by and reinterpreted ancient themes and characters in works of literature.
- The Race and Literature Collision in American Authors: Examine how race and racial identity have been depicted among authors like Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston. The Portrayal of Mental Illness in Literature: Compare and contrast the portrayal of mental illness in a couple of literary works, such as, for example, Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
- The Impact of War on Literature: How and what ways do diverse wars impact changes in the themes and styles adopted in literature?
- Discuss war literature, citing specific examples through works like “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien.
- Women in Medieval Literature: Talk about the role of women either in the representation of texts such as “Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer or in general works by Marie de France.
- THE INFLUENCE OF EXISTENTIALISM IN LITERATURE: A study of existential philosophy in literature, with a specific focus on the works of authors like Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Franz Kafka.
- Symbolism in American Literature: Symbolists like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald will be seen to relate major meanings within their works.
- The Evolution of the Detective Novel: Research the evolution of the detective genre from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” to current detective fiction.
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