Expand on the following and add more writers to those mentioned here, indicating what is in the focus of their attention.

Writers like George Eliot, were explorers and describers of the human soul. Thackeray was a caustic critic of the human vanities foibles. Dickens was an uncompromising critic, he attacked the abuses of the society.

H. Wells, A. Bennet, J. Galsworthy, J. Conrad were the writers who made their business to analyse the significant problems with which the age was burdened, and by their work they left their imprint on the mental outlook of their own and succeeding generation.

Bennet and Galsworthy were interested in the effects which the society had in shaping the characters and destiny of individuals.

17. a) Do you agree with the following statements? Give your arguments:

1. writers are like the most sensitive of barometers which react immediately to any change in the atmosphere?

2. writers imbibe the spirit of their time and voice their epoch?

3. gifted writers were many, but there are few who came down to history of literature, all of them being figures of indisputable distinction, all of them possessing analytic minds, the integrity and prophetic quality that enabled them to appeal to the readers with different level of intelligence?

4. great writers confirmed forever the concept of literature as an instrument of human enlightment, and the people learned to see the world through their eyes?

5. the writers' greatness lay in their versatility, the wide range of interests, profound understanding of the deep-going and essential qualitative changes occurring in life which fortified in them the tendency to question and to doubt, challenge or approve?

b) Round-table discussion. Pick up statements from 23a:

1. You are an American historian of literature visiting a Ukranian University. Students ask you to dwell on the writers that are the national pride in your country.

2. You have a talk with the University students in Great Britain. The conversation gradually drifts to the subject of modern English and Ukranian literature.

3. Discussing the peculiarities of ‘mass literature’ you must answer the question whether Arthur Hailey should be definitely referred to as a writer producing books calculated to ba a commercial success.

18. Do the search on types of literary awards. Present it in class. Compare them. Fill in a table:

Award	Country	Who suggests the nominee	Categories of nomination/ Excellence in … (specific features)	Entry fee	The amount of award/ medal
Nobel Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Shevchenko Award

Suggest a writer for nomination for any award to your choice. Write a 200-250-word essay giving supportive arguments and motivating your choice.
Unit Four

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From: "THE PASSIONATE YEAR"

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