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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Raymond and Marie


2. Wrote 'Culture and Society' and 'The Country and the City'






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






4. Achilles' son






5. 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


6. 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


7. Wrote 'Epistemology of the Closet' and 'Between Men'






8. 'The postmodern condition' and 'The collapse of the grand narrative'






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






10. 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






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


12. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






13. 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' -






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






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






16. Settembrini and Naphta


17. Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte


18. Hector'S wife






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






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


21. 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






22. 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.






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






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






25. The protagonist of 'The School for Wives -' also known as Monsieur de la Souche.






26. Concerns a writer who becomes ill and confronts the duality of life: follow the path of logic and reason (Apollo) or follow the path of passion (Dionysus). He becomes obsessed with a young boy who he believes represents the latter. The protagonist is


27. The Guermantes


28. 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


29. 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.'






30. '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.


31. 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


32. Dystopian novel by Jack London


33. 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'


34. The play tells the story of a brutish - unthinking laborer known as Yank - as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. At first Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an oceanliner - and is highly confident in hi


35. The narrator of 'Lolita'






36. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies






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


38. 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.


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






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






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


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


43. 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


44. The husband of Emma Bovary.






45. Concerns intellectual man named Humphrey van Weyden - who is forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry - called Martinez - which collides with another ship in


46. 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.


47. 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


48. 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.'


49. Aside from presenting a detailed account of the life and land of the Mojave desert - each story and essay includes at least one of three themes: the supremacy and divinity of nature - the negative consequences of the disconnect between humans and nat


50. Heterotopia and parrhesia - 'Regimes of truth' and 'Surveillance' - 'gaze' and 'archive'