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GRE Literature: World Literature

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






2. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






3. 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

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4. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






5. 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.






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






7. 'The Camera Eye' sections are written in stream of consciousness technique and add up to an autobiographical Künstlerroman. Narrates the lives of twelve characters in free indirect speech.

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






9. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.

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10. General Kutuzov

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11. Achilles' son






12. 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.

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13. A flirtatious - witty - young socialite who sends identical love letters to Alceste - Oronte - Acaste - and Clitandre.

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14. 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.

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15. The Kafka-influenced novel concerns a dejected researcher who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself - on his intellectual and spiritual freedom. The protagonist is Antoine Roquentin - Anna

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16. Breakthrough Native American novel. The protagonist is Abel.

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17. Tells the love of Orestes and Hermione - who is betrothed to Pyrrhus.

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18. Mimesis






19. It tells the story of the Bridau family (Phillipe and Joseph) - trying to regain their lost inheritance after a series of unfortunate mishaps.

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

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21. 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






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






23. It describes the rise of a populist politician who calls his movement 'patriotic' and creates his own militia (the Minute Men or 'MM' - paralleling Hitler'S 'SS') and takes unconstitutional power after winning election — mirroring what Hitler was doi

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






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

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26. 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.






27. Tomas and Tereza

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28. Set in the sitting room of a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta of Big Daddy Pollitt - a wealthy cotton tycoon - Big Daddy Pollitt - Brick and Maggie

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

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






31. 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.

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






33. 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

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34. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband'S death - and expects her daughter to do the same.

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35. Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte

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36. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen






37. Anastasie and Delphine

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38. 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

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39. Masha - Olga and Irina - Andrei Prozorova and Natalia Ivanova - The characters identify Moscow with their happiness - and thus to them it represents the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dream

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40. Parnell and Cranly

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






42. Torvald Helmer - Krogstad

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43. 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.'

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44. 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.






45. Semi-autobiographical novel that provides a portrait of life in Knoxville - Tennessee - showing how the sudden death of a father affects a young widow - her two children - her atheistic father and the dead man'S alcoholic brother. Protagonist is Rufu

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46. Highly intelligent - rational - and analytical - he is devoted to his country - returning to active duty even after nearly being killed at Austerlitz - and spending months helping Speranski write a new civil code for Russia. Though often detached - h

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






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

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49. 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

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50. 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

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