Test graduate students’ ability to analyze and compare how James Joyce’s Ulysses and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway construct narrative temporality and deploy stream-of-consciousness techniques. Assess close readings of representative passages (e.g., “Penelope,” Molly Bloom; Clarissa’s interior episodes), identification of syntactic, lexical, and punctuation strategies, and use of narratological and theoretical frameworks (e.g., Genette, phenomenology, modernist theory). Expect short analytical answers and one comparative essay explaining how temporal manipulation shapes subjectivity, focalization, plot cohesion, and reader experience.