Every syllabus overview tells you that Modern prose and mid-20th-century American works are heavily tested. We all know Allen Ginsberg and James Joyce are non-negotiable.
But let's be realistic: nobody has the time to read Ulysses cover-to-cover while preparing for Paper 2.
What is your actual strategy for tackling stream-of-consciousness texts and massive modern novels for the exam? Are you reading the first and last chapters and relying on critical summaries, or do you focus entirely on the post-structuralist critiques of the texts instead?"
But let's be realistic: nobody has the time to read Ulysses cover-to-cover while preparing for Paper 2.
What is your actual strategy for tackling stream-of-consciousness texts and massive modern novels for the exam? Are you reading the first and last chapters and relying on critical summaries, or do you focus entirely on the post-structuralist critiques of the texts instead?"