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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






2. Emma Clery and Belvedere


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


4. The independent-minded and socially awkward co-protagonist of 'Anna Karenina.' Whereas Anna'S pursuit of love ends in tragedy - his long courtship of Kitty Shcherbatskaya ultimately ends in a happy marriage.






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






6. Lotte and Albert


7. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle


8. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted


9. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.


10. 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.


11. Begins: 'If I am out of my mind - it'S all right with me.'


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






13. Vasili'S cold - imperious - and beautiful daughter - who seduces Pierre into marriage - only to take up with another man immediately. She has affairs with many men - including her brother Anatole. Though known in social circles as a witty woman - she


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. 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


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






17. Best known for his analysis of interpretive communities — an offshoot of reader-response criticism.






18. Raskolinikov'S sister - she is decisive and brave - ending her engagement with Luzhin when he insults her family and fending off Svidrigailov with gunfire.






19. Zosima


20. 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.






21. Settembrini and Naphta


22. 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


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






24. 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.


25. Dunya'S depraved yet generous former employer who attempts to rape her.






26. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






27. 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


28. Wrote 'Structure - Sign - and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' and 'Speech and Phenomena'






29. Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte


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






31. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen






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


33. Saintly character who represents the ideal of the simple - life-affirming philosophy of the Russian peasantry


34. Two students - John and Alan - cuckold a miller.


35. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






36. 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


37. A young law student who seems to share Emma'S appreciation for the finer things in life - and who returns her admiration






38. 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






39. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






40. 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.






41. 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.


42. The Guermantes


43. Jewel and Gentleman Brown


44. The final play of Racine - based on the Bible - like 'Esther.'


45. 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.






46. Joachim Ziemssen and Clavdia Chauchat


47. Tomas and Tereza


48. General Kutuzov


49. Epistolary novel (letters sent to Wilhelm) set in the fictional village of Wahlheim


50. Known for his combination of realism and romanticism and his dedication to finding 'le mot juste' ('The right word') - which he considered has the key mean to achieve quality in literary art.