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GRE Literature: World Literature
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1. Wrote 'Anatomy of Criticism' and 'The Well-Tempered Critic' - 'centripetal' and 'centrifugal'
(Monsieur) Homais
(Georges) Poulet
Frye
(Roland) Barthes
2. Ephraim Cabot and Abbie Putnam
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3. Wrote 'The Flowers of Evil' - He influenced a whole generation of poets with his highly original style of prose-poetry - and even coined the term 'modernity.'
Baudelaire
'It Can'T Happen Here' (Lewis)
'Falconer' (Cheever)
(Cleanth) Brooks
4. 'The Camera Eye' sections are written in stream of consciousness technique and add up to an autobiographical Künstlerroman. Narrates the lives of twelve characters in free indirect speech.
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5. Anna Karenina'S husband. Formal - duty-bound - and cowed by social convention - he constantly presents a flawless facade of a cultivated and capable man.
'Phedre' (Racine)
Alexei (Karenin)
'The Good Soldier' (Ford)
Josah ('Athalie')
6. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.
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7. 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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8. 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
'The Plough and the Stars' (O'Casey)
Pierre Bezukhov
'The Night of the Iguana' (Williams)
Derrida
9. 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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10. 'The postmodern condition' and 'The collapse of the grand narrative'
(Vladimir) Propp
'U.S.A.' (Dos Passos)
Maggie Tulliver
Lyotard
11. 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.
(Alexei) Vronsky
(Stanley) Fish
'The Wild Duck' (Ibsen)
'The Fall' (Camus)
12. 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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13. The final play of Racine - based on the Bible - like 'Esther.'
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14. 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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15. Tells the love of Orestes and Hermione - who is betrothed to Pyrrhus.
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16. Claire and Solange
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17. Dystopian novel by Jack London
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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler
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22. Begins: 'Someone must have slandered Josef K. - for one morning - without having done anything truly wrong - he was arrested.'
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23. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle
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24. A brilliant student with an incisively analytical mind - and his intelligence is directly to blame for his descent into despair. Unable to reconcile the horror of unjust human suffering—particularly the suffering of children—with the idea of a loving
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25. Wrote 'Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels' and 'The Critic as Host'
(J. Hillis) Miller
'Crime and Punishment'
'The Trial' (Kafka)
Louise Erdrich
26. 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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27. (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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28. Masha - Olga and Irina - Andrei Prozorova and Natalia Ivanova - The characters identify Moscow with their happiness - and thus to them it represents the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dream
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29. Wrote 'Phenomenology of Reading'
'Under the Volcano' (Lowry)
'The Playboy of the Western World' (Synge)
Foucault'S ideas
(Georges) Poulet
30. Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte
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31. 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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32. Native American novelist and poet.
'Brideshead Revisited' (Waugh)
Louise Erdrich
Cleanth Brooks
(Paul) de Man
33. The play tells the story of a brutish - unthinking laborer known as Yank - as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. At first Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an oceanliner - and is highly confident in hi
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34. Joachim Ziemssen and Clavdia Chauchat
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35. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.
Racine
Junto
Bakhtin
'The Crying of Lot 49'
36. Wrote 'The Roads to Freedom -' a WWII triology about Mathieu - a socialist teacher of philosophy and somewhat of a stand-in for the author.
'Disgrace' (Coetzee)
'The Darling' (Chekhov)
Sartre
'Mother Courage and Her Children' (Brecht)
37. Set in Amsterdam - it consists of a series of second-person dramatic monologues of a penitent judge.
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38. Ends: 'Who knows but that - on the lower frequencies - I speak for you?'
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39. 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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40. Best known for his analysis of interpretive communities — an offshoot of reader-response criticism.
(Stanley) Fish
Pyrrhus
'The Maids' (Genet)
'Great Expectations'
41. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'
'The Good Soldier' (Ford)
Harry Angstrom
'The Wild Duck' (Ibsen)
(Elaine) Showalter
42. The narrator of Camus' 'The Fall.' A wealthy lawyer who often speaks of his love for high - open places.
'The Red and the Black' (Stendhal)
Cheever
Sartre
(Jean-Baptiste) Clamence
43. Jorgan Tesman
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44. Hector'S wife
Alexei (Karenin)
Andromache
'The Zoo Story' (Albee)
(Hélène) Cixous
45. Emma Clery and Belvedere
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46. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
'No Exit' (Sartre)
Wimsatt and Beardsley
'Andromaque' (Racine)
47. Wrote 'Culture and Society' and 'The Country and the City'
(Countess) Natasha Rostov ('War and Peace')
(Raymond) Williams
Alyosha ('The Brothers Karamazov')
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
48. The protagonist - Olga - has always been in love with someone—starting with her father as a young child—and that she inspires mutual affection from most of the people she meets. She marries Kukin and - after his death - Vasily.
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49. 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.
(Countess) Natasha Rostov ('War and Peace')
(William) Empson
'Lord Jim' (Conrad)
Konstantin Levin
50. Wrote 'Epistemology of the Closet' and 'Between Men'
'Midnight'S Children' (Rushdie)
'To the Lighthouse'
Sedgwick (Queer theory)
'The Five-Forty-Eight' (Cheever)
