Compulsory readings English Literature:

 Unit 1: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

 Unit 2: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
 Unit 3: Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’, Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’,
Jessie Pope’s ‘The Call’ and Rose Macauly’s ‘The Picnic’.
 Unit 4: D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.
 Unit 5: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One’s Own.

Commentary on the exams —essay part—: focus on the text, not on the
context or the author. Answer straightforwardly the question (type of narrator or
whatever they ask).

Compulsory readings American Literature (first semester):

 UNIT 1: S. Anderson’s “Hands”

 UNIT 2:
 T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
 E. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”
 W. C. Williams’ “This is Just to Say”
 W. Stevens’ “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
 R. Frost’s “After Apple-Picking”

 UNIT 3: F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

 UNIT 4:
 W. Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”
 E. Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”

 UNIT 5:
 L. Hughes’ “I, Too”
 E. Wharton’s “Roman Fever”