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GRE Literature: World Literature
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1. Settembrini and Naphta
2. Anastasie and Delphine
3. It tells the story of Ezekiel Farragut - a university professor and drug addict who is serving time in a State Prison for the murder of his brother. Farragut struggles to retain his humanity in the prison environment - and begins an affair with a fel
4. Borodino
5. The narrator - K. - arrives in a village governed by a mysterious bureaucracy - Frieda and Klamm
6. James and Edward Tyrone
7. The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. Her desperation is driven by the social norms of her culture - and th
8. Dmitri Razumikhin and Katerina Ivanova
9. The daughter of King Minos and wife of Theseus.
(Roman) Jakobson
Phaedra
Derrida
'The Wild Duck' (Ibsen)
10. 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
11. Opens opens in a country store - which is doubling as a Justice of the Peace Court. A hungry boy named Sarty Snopes craves the meat and cheese in the store.
12. 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
13. 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
14. Set during the 30 Years' War - it concerns the dreadfulness of war and the idea that virtues are not rewarded in corrupt times. He used an epic structure so that the audience focuses on the issues being displayed rather than getting involved with the
15. A young law student who seems to share Emma'S appreciation for the finer things in life - and who returns her admiration
'The Magic Mountain' (represent duty and love/temptation)
Cleanth Brooks
Leon (Dupris)
'Crime and Punishment'
16. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal
17. Melanctha - 'The Good Anna' and 'The Gentle Lena' - Set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint
18. 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
19. Reification and class consciousness - Wrote 'The Theory of the Novel' and 'The Historical Novel'
Albee
(Gyorgy) Lukacs
'War and Peace'
(Prince) Andrei Bolkonski ('War and Peace')
20. 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.
21. 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
'Lolita' (her real name)
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
Julien Sorel
'The Cherry Orchard' (Chekhov)
22. Jewel and Gentleman Brown
23. 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.
(Jean) Racine
'Lolita' (her real name)
Ionesco
'The Sorrows of Young Werther' (Goethe)
24. The narrator of 'The Plague -' although he is not revealed to be so until the conclusion.
'Lolita' (her real name)
Joyce ('Portrait of an Artist')
Dr. Rieux
'Falconer' (Cheever)
25. (His lawyer and best friend) Mr. Jaggers and Herbert Pocket - (the convict and Pip'S worst enemy) - Abel Magwitch and Bentley Drummel
26. 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.'
27. 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.
'The Darling' (Chekhov)
'Who'S Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (Albee)
'Andromaque' (Racine)
Alceste
28. Wrote 'Structure - Sign - and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' and 'Speech and Phenomena'
'The Maids' (Genet)
Derrida
Helene (Kuragin) ('War and Peace')
'Andromaque' (Racine)
29. Dunya'S depraved yet generous former employer who attempts to rape her.
Phaedra
Humbert Humbert
'The Fall' (Camus)
(Arkady) Svidrigailov
30. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen
'A Death in the Family' (Agee)
Hermione
'Miss Julie' (Strindberg)
(Lyubov) Ranevskaya
31. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor
32. Epistolary novel (letters sent to Wilhelm) set in the fictional village of Wahlheim
33. 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.
34. 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
Arnolphe
Cheever
'Hedda Gabler'
'The Brothers Karamazov' (their father and the monk)
35. Felix and Charles
36. Jack and Nora Clitheroe - The final acts take place on the Easter Rising of 1916.
37. Ends: 'Who knows but that - on the lower frequencies - I speak for you?'
38. The protagonist of 'Rabbit - Run' (Updike)
Harry Angstrom
(Ursula) Le Guin
(Cleanth) Brooks
'Crime and Punishment'
39. The Guermantes
40. Zosima
41. Wrote 'Bodies that Matter' and 'Gender Trouble'
(Judith) Butler
Bakhtin
Rastignac
'The Balcony' (Genet)
42. Wrote 'The Laugh of the Medusa'
'The Good Soldier' (Ford)
(John Crowe) Ransom
(Hélène) Cixous
Foucault'S ideas
43. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'
'Tartuffe' (Moliere)
Humbert Humbert
Rastignac
Frye
44. The assumption that the physical presence of a speaker authenticates his speech. Speaking would then precede writing (the sign of a sign) - since the writer is not present at the reading of his text toauthenticate it.
Rodolphe (Boulanger)
metaphysics of presence (Derrida)
(Cleanth) Brooks
Ivan ('The Brothers Karamazov')
45. 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
46. 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
47. The story documents the troubles of Tayo - a Native American World War II veteran who strives to overcome PTSD and end the drought that is devastating his Laguna Pueblo people.
48. 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.
Dmitri ('The Brothers Karamazov')
'The Zoo Story' (Albee)
Konstantin Levin
'War and Peace' (the main battle)
49. 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
50. Set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s - during the Irish Civil War period - it concerns the Boyle family.