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GRE Literature: World Literature
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1. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'
Sonya (Marmeladov)
'Disgrace' (Coetzee)
Rastignac
Tolstoy ('What is Art?')
2. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.
Dunya
Racine
Cleanth Brooks
Sedgwick (Queer theory)
3. It describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants - the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumors about the war in Europe; invading one anoth
4. 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
5. Contains several parallels with Dante'S Inferno - the last circle of Hell being a bar called 'Mexico City.' 'God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice - aided by ourselves...Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes pla
6. A young law student who seems to share Emma'S appreciation for the finer things in life - and who returns her admiration
'A Doll'S House' (Nora)
Helene (Kuragin) ('War and Peace')
Leon (Dupris)
'Rabbit - Run' (Updike)
7. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor
8. Heterglossia and dialogism - chronotope - exotopy - utterance and unfinalizability
Bakhtin
'Crime and Punishment'
'The Seagull' (Chekhov)
(Sean) O'Casey
9. 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
10. Mimesis
'U.S.A.' (Dos Passos)
'Under the Volcano' (Lowry)
Auerbach
'The Trial' (Kafka)
11. Subaltern - strategic essentialism
(Gayatri) Spivak
'The Night of the Iguana' (Williams)
(Jean-Baptiste) Clamence
Foucault'S ideas
12. 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
13. The story documents the troubles of Tayo - a Native American World War II veteran who strives to overcome PTSD and end the drought that is devastating his Laguna Pueblo people.
14. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'
(Elaine) Showalter
Lyotard
'Falconer' (Cheever)
Sedgwick (Queer theory)
15. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -
Konstantin Levin
Marxist (criticism)
Sonya (Marmeladov)
'The Glass Menagerie'
16. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.
17. Orgon and Elmire - Damis - Mariane - and Dorine
18. The final play of Racine - based on the Bible - like 'Esther.'
19. Wrote 'The Blacks' and 'The Maids'
Phaedra
Jean Genet
Platon (Karataev) ('War and Peace')
'Nausea' (Sartre)
20. He is a pompous speechmaker - endlessly rattling on about medical techniques and theories that he really knows nothing about. His presence serves - in part - to heighten our sense of Emma'S frustration with her life.
'Remembrance of Things Past' (Proust)
Hermione
(Monsieur) Homais
'Herzog' (Bellow)
21. Dolores Haze
22. Wrote 'The Sandbox -' a universal failure.
Albee
Konstantin Levin
'War and Peace'
Bakhtin
23. Zosima
24. Tomas and Tereza
25. A young woman - attempting to escape an existence cramped by social mores and have a little fun - dances at the servants' annual midsummer party - where she is drawn to a senior servant - a footman named Jean - who is particularly well-traveled - wel
26. The narrator of Camus' 'The Fall.' A wealthy lawyer who often speaks of his love for high - open places.
'Three Lives' (Stein)
(Jean-Baptiste) Clamence
'The Death of Ivan Illych' (Tolstoy)
(J. Hillis) Miller
27. 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.
28. Begins: 'Someone must have slandered Josef K. - for one morning - without having done anything truly wrong - he was arrested.'
29. 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'
30. 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
31. Ends: 'I lingered round them - under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath - and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers
32. Melanctha - 'The Good Anna' and 'The Gentle Lena' - Set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint
33. Leading formalist who wrote 'Morphology of the Folktale'
'The Charterhouse of Parma' (Stendhal)
(Vladimir) Propp
'It Can'T Happen Here' (Lewis)
'The Magic Mountain' (represent humanism and radicalism)
34. Ends: 'Who knows but that - on the lower frequencies - I speak for you?'
35. Wrote 'The Shadow of a Gunman' and 'Red Roses for Me'
36. 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
37. The narrator of 'Lolita'
Humbert Humbert
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' (Harte)
'The Good Soldier' (Ford)
38. Most of it is a thirty-year flashback. Peter Ivanovich - Gerasim
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. Metafictional American writer who wrote 'Lost in the Funhouse' and 'Chimera'
'Midnight'S Children' (Rushdie)
(John) Barth
'Athalie' (Racine)
'Who'S Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (Albee)
41. Concerns a woman - Oedipa Maas - possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies - Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero
42. 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.
43. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted
44. The protagonist of 'The Magic Mountain'
Emma Bovary (Roualt)
Hans (Castorp)
'Invisible Man'
'Lord Jim' (Conrad)
45. 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
46. 'The death of the author' and 'writing degree zero' - Distinguished between the author and scriptor and Doxa and Para-doxa - 'Readerly' and 'writerly' texts - Wrote 'S/Z' and 'Mythologies'
Alyosha ('The Brothers Karamazov')
Jean Genet
(Roland) Barthes
Auerbach
47. In 1940s Mexico - an ex-minister - Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon - has been locked out of his church after characterizing the Occidental image of God as a 'Senile delinquent' - during one of his sermons - Hannah Jelkes
48. Poet and critic who wrote 'Seven Types of Ambiguity'
'Invisible Man'
Vautrin
(William) Empson
'The Stranger' (Camus)
49. 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.
Sartre
Alceste
'Madame Bovary' (Flaubert)
Reeve'S Tale
50. 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.