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GRE Literature: World Literature

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






2. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






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






4. Leading formalist who wrote 'Morphology of the Folktale'






5. Wrote 'The Lesson -' 'The Chairs -' and 'The Bald Soprano'






6. Wrote the pacifist 'Dublin trilogy'


7. The narrator of 'Lolita'






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


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


10. Her sci-fi novels explore Taoist - anarchist - ethnographic - feminist - queer theory - psychological and sociological themes. Wrote the Hainish cycle - including 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed'






11. Two married couples - one twenty years older and bitterer than the other - engage in an evening of merciless personal attack - George and Martha - Nick and Honey


12. 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






13. Parnell and Cranly


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


15. Tells the tale of Rubashov - an Old Bolshevik and October Revolutionary who is cast out - imprisoned - and tried for treason against the very Soviet Union he once helped to create.


16. 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


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






18. Concerns a young poet trying to make a name for himself - who becomes trapped in the morass of society's darkest contradiction - Lucien de Rubempré - Eve Chardon - David


19. 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


20. 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


21. A wealthy and dashing military officer whose love for Anna prompts her to desert her husband and son. He accidentally destroys his beautiful racehorse Frou-Frou - a symbol of Anna.






22. Wrote 'The Shadow of a Gunman' and 'Red Roses for Me'


23. Wrote 'The Sandbox -' a universal failure.






24. It tells the story of Ezekiel Farragut - a university professor and drug addict who is serving time in a State Prison for the murder of his brother. Farragut struggles to retain his humanity in the prison environment - and begins an affair with a fel


25. 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


26. 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


27. Dystopian novel by Jack London


28. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane - his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists known as the Whole Sick Crew - and the quest of an aging traveller named Herbert Stencil to identify


29. The illegitimate son of a wealthy count - who upon receiving an unexpected inheritance is suddenly burdened with responsibility and conflict. His former carefree behavior vanishes and he enters upon a philosophical quest of how one should live a mora






30. Jewel and Gentleman Brown


31. Wrote 'The Laugh of the Medusa'






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






33. The play tells the story of a brutish - unthinking laborer known as Yank - as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. At first Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an oceanliner - and is highly confident in hi


34. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband'S death - and expects her daughter to do the same.


35. Ephraim Cabot and Abbie Putnam


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






37. Became the subject of a heated 'querelle' over the neoclassical unities. The play focuses on Don Rodrigue and Chimène. Rodrigue'S father - Don Diègue - is the old upstart general of medieval Spain and past his prime - whereas Chimène'S father is the


38. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal


39. The protagonist of 'The Magic Mountain'






40. Set in the sitting room of a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta of Big Daddy Pollitt - a wealthy cotton tycoon - Big Daddy Pollitt - Brick and Maggie


41. 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


42. 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.


43. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






44. Jorgan Tesman


45. 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


46. Wrote 'The Discourse on Language' - Wrote 'Truth and Power' and 'What is an Author?'






47. Borodino


48. Hector'S wife






49. Group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective.






50. 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.