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GRE Literature: World Literature
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1. Wrote 'The Discourse on Language' - Wrote 'Truth and Power' and 'What is an Author?'
Julien Sorel
(Michel) Foucault
'The Stranger' (Camus)
Bakhtin
2. Zosima
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3. Wrote 'The Lesson -' 'The Chairs -' and 'The Bald Soprano'
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
Ionesco
'The Balcony' (Genet)
Auerbach
4. James and Edward Tyrone
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5. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle
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6. Wrote 'Culture and Society' and 'The Country and the City'
'A Death in the Family' (Agee)
(Raymond) Williams
'The Brothers Karamazov' (their father and the monk)
Kitty (Ekaterina) ('Anna Karenina')
7. It satirizes the British landed gentry and mercantile class. The novel is set in the 1930s - and focuses on the breakdown of the marriage of Tony and Brenda Last
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8. 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
Julien Sorel
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
Rodolphe (Boulanger)
metaphysics of presence (Derrida)
9. A semi-autobiographical novel which tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin - an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac on the Day of the Dead.
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10. Distinguished between the semiotic and the symbolic - intertextuality and abjection - Wrote 'Powers of Horror' - Wrote 'From One Identity to Another' and 'Women'S Time'
Julia Kristeva
'The Brothers Karamazov' (their father and the monk)
'The Sorrows of Young Werther' (Goethe)
(Roland) Barthes
11. It describes the rise of a populist politician who calls his movement 'patriotic' and creates his own militia (the Minute Men or 'MM' - paralleling Hitler'S 'SS') and takes unconstitutional power after winning election — mirroring what Hitler was doi
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12. The protagonist and 'misanthrope' of the title. He is quick to criticize the flaws of everyone around him - including himself. He cannot help but love Célimène though he loathes her behaviour.
(Michel) Foucault
Charles
Konstantin Levin
Alceste
13. Ends: 'Who knows but that - on the lower frequencies - I speak for you?'
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14. It was criticized for its pessimism and ambiguous ethical message. The presentation of the lower classes was viewed as overly dark and unredemptive - and the playwright was clearly more interested in creating memorable characters than in advancing a
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15. Highly intelligent - rational - and analytical - he is devoted to his country - returning to active duty even after nearly being killed at Austerlitz - and spending months helping Speranski write a new civil code for Russia. Though often detached - h
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16. A master of epic theatre and the 'distancing effect.'
Pyrrhus
(Bertolt) Brecht
Hans (Castorp)
'Nausea' (Sartre)
17. Criminal who also goes by Trompe-la-Mort - Jacques Collin - and Abbé Herrera
Vautrin
'A Doll'S House'
Josah ('Athalie')
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
18. The final play of Racine - based on the Bible - like 'Esther.'
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19. Parnell and Cranly
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20. Ends: 'Yes - they will trample me underfoot - the numbers marching one two three - four hundred million five hundred six - reducing me to specks of voiceless dust - just as - in all good time - they will trample my son who is not my son - and his son
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21. An aristocratic woman. The protagonist of 'The Cherry Orchard.'
(Lyubov) Ranevskaya
Dr. Rieux
'The Sorrows of Young Werther' (his love interest and her husband)
'Disgrace' (Coetzee)
22. The narrator of 'Lolita'
Humbert Humbert
(Ursula) Le Guin
'U.S.A.' (Dos Passos)
'The Crying of Lot 49'
23. Concerns a woman - Oedipa Maas - possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies - Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero
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24. Anastasie and Delphine
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25. Mynheer Peeperkorn
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26. Borodino
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27. The protagonist - Olga - has always been in love with someone—starting with her father as a young child—and that she inspires mutual affection from most of the people she meets. She marries Kukin and - after his death - Vasily.
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28. Tomas and Tereza
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29. 'The Camera Eye' sections are written in stream of consciousness technique and add up to an autobiographical Künstlerroman. Narrates the lives of twelve characters in free indirect speech.
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30. 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.
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31. General Kutuzov
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32. Saintly character who represents the ideal of the simple - life-affirming philosophy of the Russian peasantry
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33. Wrote 'Epistemology of the Closet' and 'Between Men'
Julien Sorel
'Darkness at Noon' (Koestler)
Sedgwick (Queer theory)
'The Stranger' (Camus)
34. Orgon and Elmire - Damis - Mariane - and Dorine
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35. Wrote 'The Shadow of a Gunman' and 'Red Roses for Me'
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36. 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
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37. Wrote 'The Blacks' and 'The Maids'
Jean Genet
'The Playboy of the Western World' (Synge)
'The Fall' (Camus)
Josah ('Athalie')
38. John Oakhurst and Tom Simson. Tells the story of a town with serious financial and moral problems. In an effort to save what is left of the town and reestablish it as a virtuous place to be - a secret committee is created and it is decided whom ought
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39. Lotte and Albert
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40. A beautiful young woman who is courted by both Levin and Vronsky - and who ultimately marries Levin. Modeled on Tolstoy'S real-life wife - she is sensitive and perhaps a bit overprotected - shocked by some of the crude realities of life.
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41. Felix and Charles
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42. Wrote 'The New Criticism'
'Miss Julie' (Strindberg)
(Gyorgy) Lukacs
(John Crowe) Ransom
'A Doll'S House'
43. Begins: 'If I am out of my mind - it'S all right with me.'
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44. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal
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45. Raskolnikov'S love who is forced to prostitute herself to support herself and the rest of her family. She is meek and easily embarrassed - but she maintains a strong religious faith.
(Hélène) Cixous
Sonya (Marmeladov)
'Lord Jim' (Conrad)
'The Crying of Lot 49'
46. (His lawyer and best friend) Mr. Jaggers and Herbert Pocket - (the convict and Pip'S worst enemy) - Abel Magwitch and Bentley Drummel
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47. Claire and Solange
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48. Contains several parallels with Dante'S Inferno - the last circle of Hell being a bar called 'Mexico City.' 'God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice - aided by ourselves...Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes pla
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49. Wrote 'Phenomenology of Reading'
Julien Sorel
'Le Cid' (Corneille)
Meursault
(Georges) Poulet
50. Dmitri Razumikhin and Katerina Ivanova
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