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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






2. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.






3. It describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants - the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumors about the war in Europe; invading one anoth


4. 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


5. Contains several parallels with Dante'S Inferno - the last circle of Hell being a bar called 'Mexico City.' 'God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice - aided by ourselves...Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes pla


6. A young law student who seems to share Emma'S appreciation for the finer things in life - and who returns her admiration






7. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor


8. Heterglossia and dialogism - chronotope - exotopy - utterance and unfinalizability






9. 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


10. Mimesis






11. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






12. 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


13. 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.


14. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






15. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






16. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.


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


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


19. Wrote 'The Blacks' and 'The Maids'






20. 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.






21. Dolores Haze


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






23. Zosima


24. Tomas and Tereza


25. 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


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






27. 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.


28. Begins: 'Someone must have slandered Josef K. - for one morning - without having done anything truly wrong - he was arrested.'


29. 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'


30. 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


31. Ends: 'I lingered round them - under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath - and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers


32. Melanctha - 'The Good Anna' and 'The Gentle Lena' - Set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint


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






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


35. Wrote 'The Shadow of a Gunman' and 'Red Roses for Me'


36. Ends: 'But that is the beginning of a new story—the story of the gradual renewal of a man - the story of his gradual regeneration - of his passing from one world into another - of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a


37. The narrator of 'Lolita'






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


39. 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


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






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


42. Based on Euripides' 'Hippolytus' - Tells of a mother'S love for her step-son during her husband'S absence. She drinks poison at the end.


43. Ejlert Lovborg and Thea Elsted


44. The protagonist of 'The Magic Mountain'






45. 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


46. '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'






47. 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


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






49. 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.






50. 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.