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    This document provides instructions for a degree examination on controversial classics being held at the University of Aberdeen. Students will answer two questions, one from each of two sections. They may not write on any text they have already discussed in a Level 1 essay. The exam is open book and students must list any materials they bring. Scripts are to be handed in at the end of the 2 hour examination period. Section A includes questions on Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart and The Grass is Singing. Section B includes questions exploring dissent through art, the relationship between art and morality, and the concept of "epistemic closure" in texts from the course.

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    UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

    Session 2010-2011
    Friday 27th May 2011
    12:00 – 14:00
    Games Hall, Butchart Recreation Centre

    DEGREE EXAMINATION IN EL1513: Controversial Classics

    Candidates may not leave the room during the first or last half-hour of
    the examination.

    Answer TWO questions, ONE from each section.

    Do not write on the same text twice, and do not write at length on any text
    which you discussed in any Level 1 essay.

    This is an open-book exam – minor annotations on the texts are allowed.

    You are required to enter on the first page of your script the texts, if any,
    which you have brought into the examination, giving author or editor, title,
    publisher, and date.

    Scripts should be handed to invigilators at the end of the examination.

    SECTION A

    1. ‘“And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark
    places of the earth.”’ Discuss the importance of time and the past in
    Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

    2. For Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad was ‘a bloody racist’. To what


    extent do you agree with Chinua Achebe’s condemnation of Conrad
    based on your reading of Heart of Darkness.

    3. How does reading Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart as a tragedy


    alter the reader's view of pre-colonial African society?

    4. How does Achebe engage with the language of the British colonial past
    in Things Fall Apart?

    5. How does the narrative voice of The Grass is Singing undermine


    colonial values?

    6. Does Moses' killing of Mary confirm or challenge racial stereotypes in


    The Grass is Singing?

    (Continued overleaf)
    SECTION B

    7. With reference to one or two texts studied on the course, explore the
    extent to which art can successfully dissent from prevailing socio-
    political conventions and register protest.

    8. ‘A work of art functions on its own terms, exists in a realm independent


    of conventional morality, and should therefore be exempt from the
    strictures of moral judgement’ (Ladensen). Discuss, with reference to
    one or two texts on the course.

    9. ‘Epistemic closure is a moment of presumably complete knowledge of


    a phenomenon. Such presumed knowledge closes off efforts at further
    inquiry. The result is what we shall call “perverse anonymity”’ (Gordon).
    Discuss the treatment of ‘epistemic closure’ as manifested in one or
    two texts on the course.

    [END OF PAPER]

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