Mid-Term Essay Topics

1. On the performative model of masculinity--that manhood is conditional on performance--encoded as a model in British literature by Rudyard Kipling in Stalky & Co., arrange Clockwork Orange, Success and High Fidelity into a devolving sequence using direct quotations from the three post-Kipling British novels.
2. Terrence and Gregory are Martin Amis' modernisation of the 'body-soul dialogue' literary trope. Provide a forensic analysis of Amis' text which shows the accurate anatomy of this reading.
3. Explain how High Fidelity represents a male dystopia that inverts the Stalky model of confident and fulfilled masculinity.