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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character'S decorous social persona and inner corruption - and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient






4. 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.






5. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






6. 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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7. 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

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8. Hector'S wife






9. General Kutuzov

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10. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






11. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






12. It concerns the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: an ingenue - a fading actress - her son the symbolist playwright - and a famous middlebrow story writer. The play has a strong intertextual relationship with 'Hamelet.'

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

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






15. 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.

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

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17. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






18. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal

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19. 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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20. Wrote 'The Sandbox -' a universal failure.






21. A one-act play which explores themes of isolation - miscommunication - social disparity - and dehumanization in a commercial world. The main characters are Peter and Jerry. Concludes with a stabbing in Central Park.

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22. 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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23. 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






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

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

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26. 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

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27. The narrator of 'Lolita'






28. Dolores Haze

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






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






31. Claire and Solange

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32. The husband of Emma Bovary.






33. Reification and class consciousness - Wrote 'The Theory of the Novel' and 'The Historical Novel'






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

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35. 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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36. 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'

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37. Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna

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38. The illegitimate son of a wealthy count - who upon receiving an unexpected inheritance is suddenly burdened with responsibility and conflict. His former carefree behavior vanishes and he enters upon a philosophical quest of how one should live a mora






39. A retelling of the story of Phaedra - Theseus - and Hippolyte.

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40. Raymond and Marie

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41. 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.

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42. 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.






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

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44. 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.






45. Emma Clery and Belvedere

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46. Lotte and Albert

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47. 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






48. Anastasie and Delphine

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49. The Guermantes

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50. A wealthy and dashing military officer whose love for Anna prompts her to desert her husband and son. He accidentally destroys his beautiful racehorse Frou-Frou - a symbol of Anna.