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GRE Literature: World Literature

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






2. Group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective.






3. The protagonist of 'The Mill on the Floss.' Her brother is Tom.






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






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


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






7. (His lawyer and best friend) Mr. Jaggers and Herbert Pocket - (the convict and Pip'S worst enemy) - Abel Magwitch and Bentley Drummel


8. 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


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. 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


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


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






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






14. Wrote 'The New Criticism'






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


16. 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.






17. The protagonist of 'The School for Wives -' also known as Monsieur de la Souche.






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


19. Lotte and Albert


20. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor


21. Zosima


22. Ends: 'The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life - and rest in unvisited tombs.'


23. Hector'S wife






24. 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


25. Wrote 'Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels' and 'The Critic as Host'






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






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


28. The story is about a businessman called Blake - who is accosted on a train at gunpoint by his former secretary - named Miss Dent. The woman is mentally ill - and is particularly upset with how Blake left her after a one-night stand and then fired her


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


30. 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.


31. Eilif - Kattrin - and Swiss Cheese


32. 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


33. 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


34. Claire and Solange


35. 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






36. Metafictional American writer who wrote 'Lost in the Funhouse' and 'Chimera'






37. 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






38. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






39. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies






40. Wrote 'The Blacks' and 'The Maids'






41. A master of epic theatre and the 'distancing effect.'






42. Wrote 'The Laugh of the Medusa'






43. Settembrini and Naphta


44. Criminal who also goes by Trompe-la-Mort - Jacques Collin - and Abbé Herrera






45. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






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


47. 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


48. Beautiful - accomplished - lively - spontaneous - and charming - she begins the novel as a willful and exuberant teenager and ends it as a happily married to Pierre. Her crush on Anatole costs her a chance with Andrew - who cannot forgive her lapse.


49. 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






50. 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.