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GRE Literature: World Literature

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






3. Wrote 'Problems of Dostoyevsky' and 'Rabelais and His World'






4. Mimesis






5. 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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6. Wrote 'The Archaeology of Knowledge' and 'The Order of Things' - 'Episteme' and 'dispotif' - Panopticism - biopower - and governmentality






7. The 'Intentional' and 'Affective' Fallacies






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






9. Hector'S wife






10. 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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11. 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






12. Achilles' son






13. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle

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14. 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.






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

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16. 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.'

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

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18. The Mickey Mouse Club and the MagiPeel Peeler

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19. Lotte and Albert

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






21. 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.'






22. Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte

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23. 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

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24. 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.

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25. 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' -






26. '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.

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27. 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

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28. Jewel and Gentleman Brown

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






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

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31. Wrote the pacifist 'Dublin trilogy'

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32. 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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33. (A lawyer and a painter) Herr Huld and Titorelli

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34. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






35. 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.






36. A novel about miserliness - and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin.

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37. Subaltern - strategic essentialism






38. Wrote 'Phenomenology of Reading'






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






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






41. Dolores Haze

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

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43. Best known for his analysis of interpretive communities — an offshoot of reader-response criticism.






44. An aristocratic woman. The protagonist of 'The Cherry Orchard.'






45. 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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46. Orgon and Elmire - Damis - Mariane - and Dorine

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

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48. Anastasie and Delphine

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49. 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.






50. Wrote 'The Symbolist Manifesto'