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GRE Literature: World Literature

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


2. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler


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


4. 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.






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


6. 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


7. The story focuses on a doctor'S wife who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.


8. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






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


10. The narrator of 'The Plague -' although he is not revealed to be so until the conclusion.






11. The oldest brother. Passionate and intemperate - easily swept away by emotions and enthusiasms - as he demonstrates when he loses interest in his fiancée Katerina and falls madly in love with Grushenka. Cursed with a violent temper - Dmitri is plague


12. 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.


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






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






15. Wrote 'The Blacks' and 'The Maids'






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






17. 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.






18. Ends: 'Yes - they will trample me underfoot - the numbers marching one two three - four hundred million five hundred six - reducing me to specks of voiceless dust - just as - in all good time - they will trample my son who is not my son - and his son


19. James and Edward Tyrone


20. The narrator describes him as the 'hero' of novel and claims that the book is his 'biography.' A young - handsome man of about twenty - he is remarkable for his extraordinarily mature religious faith - his selflessness - and his innate love of humank


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






22. 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


23. The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens - 'The last Tory -' a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy land-owning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I.


24. 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


25. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






26. Raskolnikov'S love who is forced to prostitute herself to support herself and the rest of her family. She is meek and easily embarrassed - but she maintains a strong religious faith.






27. 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


28. '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'






29. Distinguished between the semiotic and the symbolic - intertextuality and abjection - Wrote 'Powers of Horror' - Wrote 'From One Identity to Another' and 'Women'S Time'






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


31. 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.


32. 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


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






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






35. A gentleman'S debating club founded by Ben Franklin.






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. Wrote 'The Sandbox -' a universal failure.






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


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


40. Emma Clery and Belvedere


41. Jorgan Tesman


42. 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


43. Wrote 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' and 'Contingency - Irony - and Solidarity' - ironism - final vocabulary - and postphilosophy






44. 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


45. Achilles' son






46. Jack and Nora Clitheroe - The final acts take place on the Easter Rising of 1916.


47. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.






48. 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


49. 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.'






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