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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. 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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2. (A lawyer and a painter) Herr Huld and Titorelli

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

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4. A semi-autobiographical novel which tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin - an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac on the Day of the Dead.

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

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






7. 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.

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8. 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






9. Wrote 'Phenomenology of Reading'






10. 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'






11. Known for his combination of realism and romanticism and his dedication to finding 'le mot juste' ('The right word') - which he considered has the key mean to achieve quality in literary art.






12. 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

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13. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






14. 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






15. Wrote 'The Roads to Freedom -' a WWII triology about Mathieu - a socialist teacher of philosophy and somewhat of a stand-in for the author.






16. 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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17. Parnell and Cranly

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18. Wrote 'The Symbolist Manifesto'






19. 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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20. Mimesis






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

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22. Hector'S wife






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






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






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






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

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27. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






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






29. 'The death of the author' and 'writing degree zero' - Distinguished between the author and scriptor and Doxa and Para-doxa - 'Readerly' and 'writerly' texts - Wrote 'S/Z' and 'Mythologies'






30. The daughter of King Minos and wife of Theseus.






31. The narrator describes him as the 'hero' of novel and claims that the book is his 'biography.' A young - handsome man of about twenty - he is remarkable for his extraordinarily mature religious faith - his selflessness - and his innate love of humank

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32. The husband of Emma Bovary.






33. 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

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34. Borodino

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

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36. 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.






37. The Guermantes

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38. Emma Clery and Belvedere

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39. Tells the love of Orestes and Hermione - who is betrothed to Pyrrhus.

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40. Gregers and Hjalmar Ekdal

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






43. Beautiful - accomplished - lively - spontaneous - and charming - she begins the novel as a willful and exuberant teenager and ends it as a happily married to Pierre. Her crush on Anatole costs her a chance with Andrew - who cannot forgive her lapse.

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44. 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.

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45. The story is about a businessman called Blake - who is accosted on a train at gunpoint by his former secretary - named Miss Dent. The woman is mentally ill - and is particularly upset with how Blake left her after a one-night stand and then fired her

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46. 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

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47. The narrator of 'Lolita'






48. A historical psychological novel in two volumes - chronicling an aesthete carpenter'S son and his attempts to socially rise beyond his plebeian upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work - deception and hypocrisy — yet who ultimately allow

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49. 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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50. Wrote 'Culture and Society' and 'The Country and the City'