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GRE Literature: World Literature
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1. 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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2. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'
'The Cherry Orchard' (Chekhov)
Joyce ('Portrait of an Artist')
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
Rastignac
3. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'
Foucault
(Kenneth) Burke
Hans (Castorp)
(Elaine) Showalter
4. Joad and Abner.
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5. Tomas and Tereza
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6. A gentleman'S debating club founded by Ben Franklin.
'Yerma' (Lorca)
Celimene ('The Misanthrope')
(Ursula) Le Guin
Junto
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 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
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9. 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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10. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies
Wimsatt and Beardsley
'The Magic Mountain' (represent duty and love/temptation)
(Gyorgy) Lukacs
Dr. Rieux
11. Set in Amsterdam - it consists of a series of second-person dramatic monologues of a penitent judge.
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12. Jack and Nora Clitheroe - The final acts take place on the Easter Rising of 1916.
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13. 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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14. 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
Charles
'The Darling' (Chekhov)
'Miss Julie' (Strindberg)
(Barbara) Pym
15. A retelling of the story of Phaedra - Theseus - and Hippolyte.
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16. A master of epic theatre and the 'distancing effect.'
Ivan ('The Brothers Karamazov')
(Bertolt) Brecht
Celimene ('The Misanthrope')
'The Sorrows of Young Werther' (his love interest and her husband)
17. Raskolinikov'S sister - she is decisive and brave - ending her engagement with Luzhin when he insults her family and fending off Svidrigailov with gunfire.
'Under the Volcano' (Lowry)
(Sean) O'Casey
'The Hairy Ape' (O'Neil)
Dunya
18. 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
(Ursula) Le Guin
(Judith) Butler
Cheever
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
19. It describes the rise of a populist politician who calls his movement 'patriotic' and creates his own militia (the Minute Men or 'MM' - paralleling Hitler'S 'SS') and takes unconstitutional power after winning election — mirroring what Hitler was doi
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20. A beautiful young woman who is courted by both Levin and Vronsky - and who ultimately marries Levin. Modeled on Tolstoy'S real-life wife - she is sensitive and perhaps a bit overprotected - shocked by some of the crude realities of life.
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21. 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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22. 'The Heresy of Paraphrase' - Wrote 'The Well Wrought Urn' and 'Understanding Poetry'
(Kenneth) Burke
(Cleanth) Brooks
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (Williams)
'Mother Courage and Her Children' (Brecht)
23. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle
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24. (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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25. The protagonist of 'Rabbit - Run' (Updike)
'Three Sisters'
(William) Empson
Harry Angstrom
Bakhtin
26. 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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27. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler
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28. 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.
Ivan ('The Brothers Karamazov')
(Alexei) Vronsky
Celimene ('The Misanthrope')
'Juno and the Paycock' (O'Casey)
29. 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
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30. Wrote 'Bodies that Matter' and 'Gender Trouble'
'Britannicus' (Racine)
'Athalie' (Racine)
(Judith) Butler
'Three Sisters'
31. 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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32. Emma Clery and Belvedere
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33. 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
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34. Her sci-fi novels explore Taoist - anarchist - ethnographic - feminist - queer theory - psychological and sociological themes. Wrote the Hainish cycle - including 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed'
Josah ('Athalie')
Albee
(Ursula) Le Guin
'A Handful of Dust' (Waugh)
35. Involves a blind daughter and hunting rabbits in a loft.
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36. Most of it is a thirty-year flashback. Peter Ivanovich - Gerasim
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37. Distinguished between the semiotic and the symbolic - intertextuality and abjection - Wrote 'Powers of Horror' - Wrote 'From One Identity to Another' and 'Women'S Time'
'Disgrace' (Coetzee)
'The Balcony' (Genet)
Julia Kristeva
'Death in Venice' (Mann)
38. Wrote 'The Symbolist Manifesto'
'The Zoo Story' (Albee)
(Jean) Moreas
Dr. Rieux
'Tartuffe' (Moliere)
39. Mimesis
'Hedda Gabler' (her husband)
Auerbach
'Loving' (Henry Green)
'The Fall' (Camus)
40. Claire and Solange
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41. 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.
Konstantin Levin
'The Fall' (Camus)
'The Charterhouse of Parma' (Stendhal)
Geneva School
42. Became the subject of a heated 'querelle' over the neoclassical unities. The play focuses on Don Rodrigue and Chimène. Rodrigue'S father - Don Diègue - is the old upstart general of medieval Spain and past his prime - whereas Chimène'S father is the
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43. The assumption that the physical presence of a speaker authenticates his speech. Speaking would then precede writing (the sign of a sign) - since the writer is not present at the reading of his text toauthenticate it.
Frye
metaphysics of presence (Derrida)
'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' (Harte)
'Athalie' (Racine)
44. Raymond and Marie
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45. 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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46. Subaltern - strategic essentialism
'The Magic Mountain' (represent duty and love/temptation)
'Tartuffe' (Moliere)
'Darkness at Noon' (Koestler)
(Gayatri) Spivak
47. Poet and critic who wrote 'Seven Types of Ambiguity'
Bakhtin
Ivan ('The Brothers Karamazov')
(William) Empson
'The Lower Depths' (Maxim Gorki)
48. The Guermantes
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49. Felix and Charles
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50. 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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