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GRE Literature: World Literature

Subjects : gre, literature
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1. 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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2. The protagonist of 'The Mill on the Floss.' Her brother is Tom.






3. Based on Euripides' 'Hippolytus' - Tells of a mother'S love for her step-son during her husband'S absence. She drinks poison at the end.

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4. Jack and Nora Clitheroe - The final acts take place on the Easter Rising of 1916.

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5. 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'






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






7. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted

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8. Wrote 'The Meaning of Meaning' - Wrote 'The Principles of Literary Criticism' and 'Practical Criticism'






9. Settembrini and Naphta

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

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11. 'The death of the author' and 'writing degree zero' - Distinguished between the author and scriptor and Doxa and Para-doxa - 'Readerly' and 'writerly' texts - Wrote 'S/Z' and 'Mythologies'






12. 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.






13. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






14. Concerns intellectual man named Humphrey van Weyden - who is forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry - called Martinez - which collides with another ship in

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15. Ephraim Cabot and Abbie Putnam

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

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17. The Guermantes

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18. James and Edward Tyrone

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19. 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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20. 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.






21. Ends: 'But that is the beginning of a new story—the story of the gradual renewal of a man - the story of his gradual regeneration - of his passing from one world into another - of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a

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22. Torvald Helmer - Krogstad

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






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






26. (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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27. General Kutuzov

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28. An aristocratic woman. The protagonist of 'The Cherry Orchard.'






29. The story focuses on a doctor'S wife who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

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

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






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






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

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34. 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.






35. Anastasie and Delphine

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






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






38. The story is about a businessman called Blake - who is accosted on a train at gunpoint by his former secretary - named Miss Dent. The woman is mentally ill - and is particularly upset with how Blake left her after a one-night stand and then fired her

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39. 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.






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






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






42. 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

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






44. 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

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45. 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.'

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46. Structuralist critic who wrote 'The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles'






47. 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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48. Reification and class consciousness - Wrote 'The Theory of the Novel' and 'The Historical Novel'






49. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






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