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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Wrote 'Bodies that Matter' and 'Gender Trouble'






2. Ends: 'Yes - she thought - laying down her brush in extreme fatigue - I have had my vision.'


3. 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.






4. Set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s - during the Irish Civil War period - it concerns the Boyle family.


5. Native American novelist and poet.






6. A beautiful - aristocratic married woman whose pursuit of love and emotional honesty makes her an outcast from society. Her adulterous affair catapults her into social exile - misery - and finally suicide.






7. 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


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






9. 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.






10. Emma Clery and Belvedere


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






12. Old Mahon and Pegeen Mike


13. Tells the love of Orestes and Hermione - who is betrothed to Pyrrhus.


14. The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. Her desperation is driven by the social norms of her culture - and th


15. Dystopian novel by Jack London


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


17. A novel about miserliness - and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin.


18. 'The Heresy of Paraphrase' - Wrote 'The Well Wrought Urn' and 'Understanding Poetry'






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






20. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






21. 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


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


23. 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






24. Known for his combination of realism and romanticism and his dedication to finding 'le mot juste' ('The right word') - which he considered has the key mean to achieve quality in literary art.






25. Ends: 'Who knows but that - on the lower frequencies - I speak for you?'


26. Eilif - Kattrin - and Swiss Cheese


27. 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


28. Mynheer Peeperkorn


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






30. 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


31. 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.


32. 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'


33. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






34. Wrote 'Allegories of Reading' and 'The Resistance to Theory' - Wrote 'Semiology and Rhetoric'






35. Dunya'S depraved yet generous former employer who attempts to rape her.






36. 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


37. 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


38. 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


39. 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.'






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


41. 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


42. Breakthrough Native American novel. The protagonist is Abel.


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






44. 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


45. Poet and critic who wrote 'Seven Types of Ambiguity'






46. Set in Amsterdam - it consists of a series of second-person dramatic monologues of a penitent judge.


47. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen






48. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle


49. Achilles' son






50. The grandson of the king of Judah who is restored to the throne.