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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Eilif - Kattrin - and Swiss Cheese


2. (A lawyer and a painter) Herr Huld and Titorelli


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


4. The protagonist of 'The Magic Mountain'






5. Protagonist is Fabrice del Dongo - Tells the story of a young Italian nobleman from birth to death - including Napoleon'S invasions. - Gina and Count Mosco - The hero falls in love with Clélia while imprisoned in Farnese Tower.


6. 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


7. Felix and Charles


8. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






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






10. 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.






11. Joachim Ziemssen and Clavdia Chauchat


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






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


14. Joad and Abner.


15. 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.






16. 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


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






18. Hector'S wife






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






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


21. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen






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


23. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






24. 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


25. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle


26. 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


27. 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'


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






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


30. Wrote 'The Myth of Sisyphus' and 'The Rebel'






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






32. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler


33. Borodino


34. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.






35. Wrote exclusively in Alexandrine. His dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight - the prevailing passion of his characters - a strong Jansensist sense of fate - and the nakedness of both the plot and stage.






36. 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


37. Wrote 'Anatomy of Criticism' and 'The Well-Tempered Critic' - 'centripetal' and 'centrifugal'






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


39. Proposed that when we attribute motives to others - we tend to rely on ratios between 5 elements: act - scene - agent - agency - and purpose. This has become known as the dramatistic pentad. Wrote 'Permanence and Change' and 'A Grammar of Motives' -






40. Wrote 'The New Criticism'






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


42. Achilles' son






43. 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


44. Raymond and Marie


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


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






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






48. Her sci-fi novels explore Taoist - anarchist - ethnographic - feminist - queer theory - psychological and sociological themes. Wrote the Hainish cycle - including 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed'






49. Concerns a man who is so intimidated by femininity that he resolves to marry his young - naïve ward and proceeds to make clumsy advances to this purpose. The final act introduces a powerful irony as Oronte and Enrique arrive on the scene and announce


50. 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