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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Poet and critic who wrote 'Seven Types of Ambiguity'






2. Old Mahon and Pegeen Mike


3. The assumption that the physical presence of a speaker authenticates his speech. Speaking would then precede writing (the sign of a sign) - since the writer is not present at the reading of his text toauthenticate it.






4. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






5. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return to the family'S estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. While presented with options to save the estate - the family essentially does nothing and the play e


6. Mimesis






7. Eilif - Kattrin - and Swiss Cheese


8. 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


9. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






10. The protagonist of 'Rabbit - Run' (Updike)






11. Ends: 'I lingered round them - under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath - and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers


12. Ends: 'Who knows but that - on the lower frequencies - I speak for you?'


13. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






14. Dystopian novel by Jack London


15. Set in Yonville. She has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty - wealth - passion - and high society. It is the disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life that impels her to commit adultery and a






16. He is a pompous speechmaker - endlessly rattling on about medical techniques and theories that he really knows nothing about. His presence serves - in part - to heighten our sense of Emma'S frustration with her life.






17. The protagonist of 'The School for Wives -' also known as Monsieur de la Souche.






18. 'The Heresy of Paraphrase' - Wrote 'The Well Wrought Urn' and 'Understanding Poetry'






19. Wrote 'The Roads to Freedom -' a WWII triology about Mathieu - a socialist teacher of philosophy and somewhat of a stand-in for the author.






20. '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.


21. The Kafka-influenced novel concerns a dejected researcher who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself - on his intellectual and spiritual freedom. The protagonist is Antoine Roquentin - Anna


22. A beautiful - aristocratic married woman whose pursuit of love and emotional honesty makes her an outcast from society. Her adulterous affair catapults her into social exile - misery - and finally suicide.






23. Heterglossia and dialogism - chronotope - exotopy - utterance and unfinalizability






24. Borodino


25. Criminal who also goes by Trompe-la-Mort - Jacques Collin - and Abbé Herrera






26. Wrote 'Bodies that Matter' and 'Gender Trouble'






27. Dolores Haze


28. Wrote 'Problems of Dostoyevsky' and 'Rabelais and His World'






29. 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


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






31. A brilliant student with an incisively analytical mind - and his intelligence is directly to blame for his descent into despair. Unable to reconcile the horror of unjust human suffering—particularly the suffering of children—with the idea of a loving


32. Set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s - during the Irish Civil War period - it concerns the Boyle family.


33. Concerns a man who is so intimidated by femininity that he resolves to marry his young - naïve ward and proceeds to make clumsy advances to this purpose. The final act introduces a powerful irony as Oronte and Enrique arrive on the scene and announce


34. The novel depicts the inward journey of Mrs. Curren - an old classics professor. She lives in the Cape Town of the Apartheid era - where she is slowly dying of cancer. She has been philosophically opposed to the Apartheid regime her entire life - but


35. Metafictional American writer who wrote 'Lost in the Funhouse' and 'Chimera'






36. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted


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


38. Wrote 'The Archaeology of Knowledge' and 'The Order of Things' - 'Episteme' and 'dispotif' - Panopticism - biopower - and governmentality






39. The daughter of King Minos and wife of Theseus.






40. Most of it is a thirty-year flashback. Peter Ivanovich - Gerasim


41. Claire and Solange


42. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






43. 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


44. The Guermantes


45. Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna


46. Concerns a writer who becomes ill and confronts the duality of life: follow the path of logic and reason (Apollo) or follow the path of passion (Dionysus). He becomes obsessed with a young boy who he believes represents the latter. The protagonist is


47. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler


48. Begins: 'Someone must have slandered Josef K. - for one morning - without having done anything truly wrong - he was arrested.'


49. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor


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