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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






2. The oldest brother. Passionate and intemperate - easily swept away by emotions and enthusiasms - as he demonstrates when he loses interest in his fiancée Katerina and falls madly in love with Grushenka. Cursed with a violent temper - Dmitri is plague

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3. Raskolnikov'S love who is forced to prostitute herself to support herself and the rest of her family. She is meek and easily embarrassed - but she maintains a strong religious faith.






4. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






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






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

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






8. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.






9. The protagonist of 'The Mill on the Floss.' Her brother is Tom.






10. 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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11. 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

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12. Settembrini and Naphta

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






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






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






17. Wrote 'Anatomy of Criticism' and 'The Well-Tempered Critic' - 'centripetal' and 'centrifugal'






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

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19. 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

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20. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler

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21. (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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22. 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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23. Criminal who also goes by Trompe-la-Mort - Jacques Collin - and Abbé Herrera






24. 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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25. Native American novelist and poet.






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

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

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






30. Parnell and Cranly

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31. 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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32. Wrote 'The Laugh of the Medusa'






33. 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






34. 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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35. 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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36. 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.

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37. 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

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38. Mimesis






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

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40. 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.






41. Concerns a woman - Oedipa Maas - possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies - Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero

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42. Begins: 'Someone must have slandered Josef K. - for one morning - without having done anything truly wrong - he was arrested.'

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43. 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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44. Claire and Solange

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

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46. 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.

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47. 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

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48. Tomas and Tereza

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49. 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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50. 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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