{"id":10284,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essaysparlor.com\/blog\/?p=192451"},"modified":"2016-04-25T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T11:56:56","slug":"concentration-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/concentration-of-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"concentration of isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Students are not allowed to use outside sources for the test \u2013 you can consult the course materials and your notes.<\/li>\n<li>You should spend about 2 hours on the test.<\/li>\n<li>If the test is not submitted on time, two points will be deducted for each late day.<\/li>\n<li>The test is worth 25 points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Support your ideas with specific references to the material you have read and studied.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that you have a brief introduction and conclusion to your essay.<\/li>\n<li>Leave some time at the end for revision; correct errors of grammar, spelling and punctuation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I, 15 points &#8211; Identify five (5) of the following terms. If it\u2019s the name of a character or place, provide the title of the story in which it appears, and a <u>very brief<\/u> explanation of its significance or function within the text. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201ca lost generation\u201d 5. Alice B. Toklas<\/li>\n<li>Hadley 6. concentration of isolation<\/li>\n<li>Emil<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>4.\u201cHe was not really disappointed to find Paris was so empty. But the stillness in the Ritz bar was strange and portentous. It was not an American bar any more. . . . It had gone back into France.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II, 10 points &#8211; Answer one (1) essay question. Be as specific as you can in your discussion: focus on interpretation and analysis and provide examples to illustrate your points. Be sure <u>not to provide plot summaries.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In <em>Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing and American Identity<\/em>, J. Gerald Kennedy observes:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, as these writers work to construct new identities abroad, most betray a preoccupation with those American surroundings from which they have emerged. . . . But their principal orientation is towards Paris, which supplies symbolic materials for the construction of an expatriate self. Through features of place, each writer figures a relation to the city which clarifies an emergent identity made possible by the conditions of exile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Show how Kennedy\u2019s assessment applies to both Stein and Hemingway, and provide specific examples from the text that support your statements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Discuss literary modernism in Stein\u2019s <em>Paris France<\/em> and Hemingway\u2019s <em>A Moveable Feast Feast<\/em>,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>providing specific examples to support your statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are not allowed to use outside sources for the test \u2013 you can consult the course materials and your notes. You should spend about 2 hours on the test. If the test is not submitted on time, two points <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/concentration-of-isolation\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}