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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Dmitri Razumikhin and Katerina Ivanova

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2. Mimesis






3. Set in Yonville. She has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty - wealth - passion - and high society. It is the disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life that impels her to commit adultery and a






4. 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

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5. 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

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6. Raymond and Marie

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7. Leading formalist who wrote 'Morphology of the Folktale'






8. 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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9. Wrote 'Phenomenology of Reading'






10. A one-act play which explores themes of isolation - miscommunication - social disparity - and dehumanization in a commercial world. The main characters are Peter and Jerry. Concludes with a stabbing in Central Park.

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11. Wrote 'The Sandbox -' a universal failure.






12. 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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13. 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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14. Best known for his analysis of interpretive communities — an offshoot of reader-response criticism.






15. John Oakhurst and Tom Simson. Tells the story of a town with serious financial and moral problems. In an effort to save what is left of the town and reestablish it as a virtuous place to be - a secret committee is created and it is decided whom ought

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16. 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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17. 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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18. Dunya'S depraved yet generous former employer who attempts to rape her.






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

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






21. Eilif - Kattrin - and Swiss Cheese

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22. 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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23. A retelling of the story of Phaedra - Theseus - and Hippolyte.

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24. Wrote 'Problems of Dostoyevsky' and 'Rabelais and His World'






25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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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

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29. Wrote 'The Laugh of the Medusa'






30. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






31. Chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel employs a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order - as well as an unreliable narrator.

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32. 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.

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33. Wrote 'Structure - Sign - and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' and 'Speech and Phenomena'






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

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36. Reification and class consciousness - Wrote 'The Theory of the Novel' and 'The Historical Novel'






37. Begins: 'If I am out of my mind - it'S all right with me.'

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38. 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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39. 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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40. The grandson of the king of Judah who is restored to the throne.

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41. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler

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42. Concerns intellectual man named Humphrey van Weyden - who is forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry - called Martinez - which collides with another ship in

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43. 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.






44. Raskolinikov'S sister - she is decisive and brave - ending her engagement with Luzhin when he insults her family and fending off Svidrigailov with gunfire.






45. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor

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46. 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






47. 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.






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

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49. Anastasie and Delphine

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50. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle

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