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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Wrote 'The New Criticism'






2. The protagonist of 'The Red and the Black' - Contains the epitaph 'The truth - the harsh truth - Mathilde de la Mole - Madame de Rênal and M. Pirard - A sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration






3. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






4. 'The postmodern condition' and 'The collapse of the grand narrative'






5. Dystopian novel by Jack London


6. Claire and Solange


7. It tells the story of the Bridau family (Phillipe and Joseph) - trying to regain their lost inheritance after a series of unfortunate mishaps.


8. Concerns the son of the Roman emperor Claudius - whose succession to the imperial throne is usurped by Lucius - later known as Nero - and the son of Claudius' wife Agrippina the Younger.


9. Wrote 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' and 'Contingency - Irony - and Solidarity' - ironism - final vocabulary - and postphilosophy






10. Two students - John and Alan - cuckold a miller.


11. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen






12. Wrote 'The Blacks' and 'The Maids'






13. A historical psychological novel in two volumes - chronicling an aesthete carpenter'S son and his attempts to socially rise beyond his plebeian upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work - deception and hypocrisy — yet who ultimately allow


14. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






15. I have been performing tricks for you. That'S how I've survived. You wanted it like that. You and Papa have done me a great wrong. It'S because of you I've made nothing of my life.


16. Wrote 'Culture and Society' and 'The Country and the City'






17. Aside from presenting a detailed account of the life and land of the Mojave desert - each story and essay includes at least one of three themes: the supremacy and divinity of nature - the negative consequences of the disconnect between humans and nat


18. The narrator of 'Lolita'






19. Tomas and Tereza


20. Set during the 30 Years' War - it concerns the dreadfulness of war and the idea that virtues are not rewarded in corrupt times. He used an epic structure so that the audience focuses on the issues being displayed rather than getting involved with the


21. Dunya'S depraved yet generous former employer who attempts to rape her.






22. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted


23. Proposed that when we attribute motives to others - we tend to rely on ratios between 5 elements: act - scene - agent - agency - and purpose. This has become known as the dramatistic pentad. Wrote 'Permanence and Change' and 'A Grammar of Motives' -






24. Wrote 'Epistemology of the Closet' and 'Between Men'






25. Heterotopia and parrhesia - 'Regimes of truth' and 'Surveillance' - 'gaze' and 'archive'


26. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler


27. The oldest brother. Passionate and intemperate - easily swept away by emotions and enthusiasms - as he demonstrates when he loses interest in his fiancée Katerina and falls madly in love with Grushenka. Cursed with a violent temper - Dmitri is plague


28. A novel about miserliness - and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin.


29. It concerns the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: an ingenue - a fading actress - her son the symbolist playwright - and a famous middlebrow story writer. The play has a strong intertextual relationship with 'Hamelet.'


30. Concerns a woman - Oedipa Maas - possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies - Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero


31. (His lawyer and best friend) Mr. Jaggers and Herbert Pocket - (the convict and Pip'S worst enemy) - Abel Magwitch and Bentley Drummel


32. Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte


33. Opens opens in a country store - which is doubling as a Justice of the Peace Court. A hungry boy named Sarty Snopes craves the meat and cheese in the store.


34. Anna Karenina'S husband. Formal - duty-bound - and cowed by social convention - he constantly presents a flawless facade of a cultivated and capable man.






35. Breakthrough Native American novel. The protagonist is Abel.


36. A master of epic theatre and the 'distancing effect.'






37. Parnell and Cranly


38. Wrote 'The Laugh of the Medusa'






39. The protagonist of 'The Magic Mountain'






40. Most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside. Includes meta-theatricality and role-playing consisting of two central strands: a political conflict between


41. It describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants - the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumors about the war in Europe; invading one anoth


42. The protagonist of 'The Mill on the Floss.' Her brother is Tom.






43. Wrote 'Allegories of Reading' and 'The Resistance to Theory' - Wrote 'Semiology and Rhetoric'






44. Her novels are more notable for their style and characterisation than for their plots. A superficial reading gives the impression that they are sketches of village or suburban life - and comedies of manners - studying the social activities connected






45. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






46. Distinguished between the semiotic and the symbolic - intertextuality and abjection - Wrote 'Powers of Horror' - Wrote 'From One Identity to Another' and 'Women'S Time'






47. Dolores Haze


48. Beautiful - accomplished - lively - spontaneous - and charming - she begins the novel as a willful and exuberant teenager and ends it as a happily married to Pierre. Her crush on Anatole costs her a chance with Andrew - who cannot forgive her lapse.


49. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






50. A retelling of the story of Phaedra - Theseus - and Hippolyte.