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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Borodino


2. Wrote 'The Symbolist Manifesto'






3. Hector'S wife






4. Emma Clery and Belvedere


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






6. A rich and rakish landowner who seduces Emma as one more addition to a long string of mistresses. Though occasionally charmed by Emma - he feels little true emotion towards her.






7. Aside from presenting a detailed account of the life and land of the Mojave desert - each story and essay includes at least one of three themes: the supremacy and divinity of nature - the negative consequences of the disconnect between humans and nat


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






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






10. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.


11. Lotte and Albert


12. Set in Oran - Main characters: Joseph Grand and Raymond Rambert - Cottard and Tarrou


13. Ephraim Cabot and Abbie Putnam


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


15. 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


16. 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.'


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






18. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






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


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


21. The Kafka-influenced novel concerns a dejected researcher who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself - on his intellectual and spiritual freedom. The protagonist is Antoine Roquentin - Anna


22. 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


23. 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.






24. 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.






25. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies






26. 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






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


28. The novel depicts the inward journey of Mrs. Curren - an old classics professor. She lives in the Cape Town of the Apartheid era - where she is slowly dying of cancer. She has been philosophically opposed to the Apartheid regime her entire life - but


29. Wrote 'The Myth of Sisyphus' and 'The Rebel'






30. Wrote 'Phenomenology of Reading'






31. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






32. 'The postmodern condition' and 'The collapse of the grand narrative'






33. 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






34. 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.






35. 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.


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






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






38. 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' -






39. 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


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






41. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle


42. 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.


43. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal


44. 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


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


46. 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


47. Wrote 'The Lesson -' 'The Chairs -' and 'The Bald Soprano'






48. 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'


49. Dystopian novel by Jack London


50. Dmitri Razumikhin and Katerina Ivanova