Comprehensive Exam Reading Lists and Past Exams

Sample Reading Lists

Here you will find a sample reading list for Literature and a sample reading list for Literature and Rhetoric.

Comprehensive Examinations in Literature
Reading List Past Exams
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British (PDF) Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British (ZIP)
Nineteenth-Century British (PDF) Nineteenth-Century British (ZIP)
Twentieth-Century UK and Irish (PDF) Twentieth-Century UK and Irish (ZIP)
American (PDF) American (ZIP)
Canadian (PDF) Canadian (ZIP)
Middle English (PDF) Middle English (ZIP)
Postcolonial (PDF) Post Colonial (ZIP)
Renaissance (PDF) Renaissance (ZIP)
Literary Theory and Criticism (PDF) Literary Theory and Criticism (ZIP)
Comprehensive Examinations in Language
Reading List Past Exam
Composing Theory and Pedagogy (PDF) Composing Theory and Pedagogy (ZIP)
Discourse and Text Analysis (PDF) Discourse and Text Analysis (ZIP)
History and Theory of Rhetoric (PDF) History and Theory of Rhetoric (ZIP)
New Media (PDF) New Media (ZIP)

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