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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. The narrator - K. - arrives in a village governed by a mysterious bureaucracy - Frieda and Klamm


2. Wrote 'The Meaning of Meaning' - Wrote 'The Principles of Literary Criticism' and 'Practical Criticism'






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


4. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies






5. Old Mahon and Pegeen Mike


6. 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.'






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


8. 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.






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






10. Wrote 'Allegories of Reading' and 'The Resistance to Theory' - Wrote 'Semiology and Rhetoric'






11. 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


12. The protagonist of 'The Magic Mountain'






13. 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


14. 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


15. The husband of Emma Bovary.






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






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


18. 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.






19. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






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


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






22. Zosima


23. 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


24. 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


25. Saintly character who represents the ideal of the simple - life-affirming philosophy of the Russian peasantry


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






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






28. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






29. 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


30. Concerns a young poet trying to make a name for himself - who becomes trapped in the morass of society's darkest contradiction - Lucien de Rubempré - Eve Chardon - David


31. Emma Clery and Belvedere


32. Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte


33. Felix and Charles


34. Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna


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


36. General Kutuzov


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


38. 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.






39. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return to the family'S estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. While presented with options to save the estate - the family essentially does nothing and the play e


40. 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


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


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


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.'


44. Ephraim Cabot and Abbie Putnam


45. Dunya'S depraved yet generous former employer who attempts to rape her.






46. 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


47. Tells the tale of Rubashov - an Old Bolshevik and October Revolutionary who is cast out - imprisoned - and tried for treason against the very Soviet Union he once helped to create.


48. Set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s - during the Irish Civil War period - it concerns the Boyle family.


49. Claire and Solange


50. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'