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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. General Kutuzov


2. 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






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






4. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle


5. Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna


6. Hector'S wife






7. Wrote 'The Lesson -' 'The Chairs -' and 'The Bald Soprano'






8. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.


9. 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


10. Two married couples - one twenty years older and bitterer than the other - engage in an evening of merciless personal attack - George and Martha - Nick and Honey


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


12. Structuralist critic who wrote 'The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles'






13. Wrote 'The Roads to Freedom -' a WWII triology about Mathieu - a socialist teacher of philosophy and somewhat of a stand-in for the author.






14. Wrote 'The New Criticism'






15. 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.






16. The daughter of King Minos and wife of Theseus.






17. 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.


18. Wrote 'The Discourse on Language' - Wrote 'Truth and Power' and 'What is an Author?'






19. Saintly character who represents the ideal of the simple - life-affirming philosophy of the Russian peasantry


20. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






21. 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


22. 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


23. 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.


24. The narrator - K. - arrives in a village governed by a mysterious bureaucracy - Frieda and Klamm


25. The narrator of Camus' 'The Fall.' A wealthy lawyer who often speaks of his love for high - open places.






26. 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.'






27. 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


28. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen






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






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


31. Wrote 'The Meaning of Meaning' - Wrote 'The Principles of Literary Criticism' and 'Practical Criticism'






32. Most of it is a thirty-year flashback. Peter Ivanovich - Gerasim


33. Involves a blind daughter and hunting rabbits in a loft.


34. Epistolary novel (letters sent to Wilhelm) set in the fictional village of Wahlheim


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






36. 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


37. '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'






38. Wrote 'The Archaeology of Knowledge' and 'The Order of Things' - 'Episteme' and 'dispotif' - Panopticism - biopower - and governmentality






39. 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.


40. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal


41. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted


42. 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.


43. 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


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


45. Concerns a woman - Oedipa Maas - possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies - Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero


46. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






47. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor


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






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






50. Raymond and Marie