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GRE Literature: World Literature
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1. Wrote 'The Flowers of Evil' - He influenced a whole generation of poets with his highly original style of prose-poetry - and even coined the term 'modernity.'
'The School for Wives' (Moliere)
Harry Angstrom
'The Stranger' (Camus)
Baudelaire
2. 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
(Barbara) Pym
'The Wild Duck' (Ibsen)
Baudelaire
'The Red and the Black' (Stendhal)
3. Emma Clery and Belvedere
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4. Involves a blind daughter and hunting rabbits in a loft.
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5. The narrator of Camus' 'The Fall.' A wealthy lawyer who often speaks of his love for high - open places.
(Jean-Baptiste) Clamence
Auerbach
'Athalie' (Racine)
Julien Sorel
6. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'
(Sean) O'Casey
'Nausea' (Sartre)
Cleanth Brooks
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
7. Joad and Abner.
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8. A young woman - attempting to escape an existence cramped by social mores and have a little fun - dances at the servants' annual midsummer party - where she is drawn to a senior servant - a footman named Jean - who is particularly well-traveled - wel
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9. Lotte and Albert
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10. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'
Rastignac
'Phedre' (Racine)
(Roman) Jakobson
'Lost Illusions' (Balzac)
11. Melanctha - 'The Good Anna' and 'The Gentle Lena' - Set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint
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12. Felix and Charles
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13. In 1940s Mexico - an ex-minister - Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon - has been locked out of his church after characterizing the Occidental image of God as a 'Senile delinquent' - during one of his sermons - Hannah Jelkes
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14. Zosima
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15. Jorgan Tesman
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16. 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.
'Herzog' (Bellow)
(Alexei) Vronsky
'Who'S Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (Albee)
'Andromaque' (Racine)
17. 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
'The Good Soldier' (Ford)
(Prince) Andrei Bolkonski ('War and Peace')
Alceste
Pierre Bezukhov
18. The Guermantes
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19. 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.
Alceste
'Age of Iron' (Coetzee)
Charles
'V.' (Pynchon)
20. Set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s - during the Irish Civil War period - it concerns the Boyle family.
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21. Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna
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22. Metafictional American writer who wrote 'Lost in the Funhouse' and 'Chimera'
'The Maids' (Genet)
(Alexei) Vronsky
(John) Barth
Auerbach
23. 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.
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24. A flirtatious - witty - young socialite who sends identical love letters to Alceste - Oronte - Acaste - and Clitandre.
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25. Structuralist critic who wrote 'The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles'
(Cleanth) Brooks
(Alexei) Vronsky
(Barbara) Pym
(Roman) Jakobson
26. The narrator - K. - arrives in a village governed by a mysterious bureaucracy - Frieda and Klamm
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27. Ends: 'The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life - and rest in unvisited tombs.'
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28. '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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29. A master of epic theatre and the 'distancing effect.'
(Alexei) Vronsky
(Bertolt) Brecht
'Mother Courage and Her Children' (Brecht)
Lyotard
30. The protagonist of 'The Mill on the Floss.' Her brother is Tom.
'Le Cid' (Corneille)
'Barn Burning' (Faulkner)
'The Wild Duck' (Ibsen)
Maggie Tulliver
31. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal
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32. Wrote 'Problems of Dostoyevsky' and 'Rabelais and His World'
Cheever
Bakhtin
Sartre
'The Land of Little Rain' (Mary Austin)
33. Tells the love of Orestes and Hermione - who is betrothed to Pyrrhus.
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34. Breakthrough Native American novel. The protagonist is Abel.
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35. Ephraim Cabot and Abbie Putnam
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36. Criminal who also goes by Trompe-la-Mort - Jacques Collin - and Abbé Herrera
'Lord Jim' (Conrad)
'Remembrance of Things Past' (Proust)
Vautrin
(Sean) O'Casey
37. 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
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38. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor
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39. The grandson of the king of Judah who is restored to the throne.
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40. Wrote 'The Myth of Sisyphus' and 'The Rebel'
(J. Hillis) Miller
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
'Rabbit - Run' (Updike)
Camus
41. James and Edward Tyrone
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42. Jack and Nora Clitheroe - The final acts take place on the Easter Rising of 1916.
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43. Set in Oran - Main characters: Joseph Grand and Raymond Rambert - Cottard and Tarrou
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44. Wrote exclusively in Alexandrine. His dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight - the prevailing passion of his characters - a strong Jansensist sense of fate - and the nakedness of both the plot and stage.
(Roland) Barthes
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
(Jean) Racine
'Rabbit - Run' (Updike)
45. 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.
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46. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.
Bakhtin
'Herzog' (Bellow)
Ivan ('The Brothers Karamazov')
Racine
47. The husband of Emma Bovary.
Charles
'The Land of Little Rain' (Mary Austin)
'The Brothers Karamazov' (their father and the monk)
'The Maids' (Genet)
48. Wrote 'Allegories of Reading' and 'The Resistance to Theory' - Wrote 'Semiology and Rhetoric'
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
'The Fall' (Camus)
'Crime and Punishment'
(Paul) de Man
49. Hector'S wife
Andromache
'The Trial' (Kafka)
'Who'S Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (Albee)
'Barn Burning' (Faulkner)
50. Semi-autobiographical novel that provides a portrait of life in Knoxville - Tennessee - showing how the sudden death of a father affects a young widow - her two children - her atheistic father and the dead man'S alcoholic brother. Protagonist is Rufu
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