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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens - 'The last Tory -' a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy land-owning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I.

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2. A gentleman'S debating club founded by Ben Franklin.






3. Orgon and Elmire - Damis - Mariane - and Dorine

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4. Joad and Abner.

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5. 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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6. Eilif - Kattrin - and Swiss Cheese

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7. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler

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8. Most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside. Includes meta-theatricality and role-playing consisting of two central strands: a political conflict between

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9. Proposed that when we attribute motives to others - we tend to rely on ratios between 5 elements: act - scene - agent - agency - and purpose. This has become known as the dramatistic pentad. Wrote 'Permanence and Change' and 'A Grammar of Motives' -






10. Heterotopia and parrhesia - 'Regimes of truth' and 'Surveillance' - 'gaze' and 'archive'

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11. Mimesis






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






14. 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

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15. His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character'S decorous social persona and inner corruption - and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient






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






17. 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

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18. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.

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19. Among other artists - he specifically condemns Wagner and Beethoven as examples of overly cerebral artists - who lack real emotion. Furthermore - the Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) - cannot claim to be able to 'infect' their audience—as it pretends—with

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20. Tells the love of Orestes and Hermione - who is betrothed to Pyrrhus.

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21. Dolores Haze

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22. 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

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23. Old Mahon and Pegeen Mike

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24. The husband of Emma Bovary.






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






26. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen






27. 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






28. The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. Her desperation is driven by the social norms of her culture - and th

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29. 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

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30. 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.

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






32. 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






33. Set in Amsterdam - it consists of a series of second-person dramatic monologues of a penitent judge.

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34. Borodino

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35. The Patna and Patusan - Begins: 'Stately - plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead - bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.' Begins: 'All this happened - more or less'

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36. Wrote the pacifist 'Dublin trilogy'

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37. After the death of her second husband an imperious mother imposes a period of mourning on her five daughters to last eight years - as has been traditional in her family.

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

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39. The narrator of 'Lolita'






40. (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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41. Emma Clery and Belvedere

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42. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






43. 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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44. Lotte and Albert

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45. Wrote 'The Blacks' and 'The Maids'






46. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted

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

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48. Wrote 'Phenomenology of Reading'






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






50. David Lurie is a professor of English at a technical university in Cape Town who seduces a student and loses everything: his reputation - his job - his peace of mind - his good looks - his dreams of artistic success - and finally even his ability to

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