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GRE Literature: World Literature

Subjects : gre, literature
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1. Ends: 'Yes - they will trample me underfoot - the numbers marching one two three - four hundred million five hundred six - reducing me to specks of voiceless dust - just as - in all good time - they will trample my son who is not my son - and his son

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2. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






3. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






4. Joad and Abner.

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5. Tomas and Tereza

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






7. It satirizes the British landed gentry and mercantile class. The novel is set in the 1930s - and focuses on the breakdown of the marriage of Tony and Brenda Last

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8. The novel depicts the inward journey of Mrs. Curren - an old classics professor. She lives in the Cape Town of the Apartheid era - where she is slowly dying of cancer. She has been philosophically opposed to the Apartheid regime her entire life - but

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9. 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

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10. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies






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

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

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13. 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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14. 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






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

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16. A master of epic theatre and the 'distancing effect.'






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






18. 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






19. 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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20. A beautiful young woman who is courted by both Levin and Vronsky - and who ultimately marries Levin. Modeled on Tolstoy'S real-life wife - she is sensitive and perhaps a bit overprotected - shocked by some of the crude realities of life.

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






23. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle

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24. (His lawyer and best friend) Mr. Jaggers and Herbert Pocket - (the convict and Pip'S worst enemy) - Abel Magwitch and Bentley Drummel

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25. The protagonist of 'Rabbit - Run' (Updike)






26. 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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27. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler

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28. 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.






29. 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

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30. Wrote 'Bodies that Matter' and 'Gender Trouble'






31. 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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32. Emma Clery and Belvedere

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33. 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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34. Her sci-fi novels explore Taoist - anarchist - ethnographic - feminist - queer theory - psychological and sociological themes. Wrote the Hainish cycle - including 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed'






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

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

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






38. Wrote 'The Symbolist Manifesto'






39. Mimesis






40. Claire and Solange

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41. 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.






42. Became the subject of a heated 'querelle' over the neoclassical unities. The play focuses on Don Rodrigue and Chimène. Rodrigue'S father - Don Diègue - is the old upstart general of medieval Spain and past his prime - whereas Chimène'S father is the

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43. 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.






44. Raymond and Marie

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45. I have been performing tricks for you. That'S how I've survived. You wanted it like that. You and Papa have done me a great wrong. It'S because of you I've made nothing of my life.

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46. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






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






48. The Guermantes

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49. Felix and Charles

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50. 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.

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