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GRE Literature: World Literature
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1. Claire and Solange
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2. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'
(Jean-Baptiste) Clamence
(Elaine) Showalter
'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' (Harte)
'Miss Julie' (Strindberg)
3. Torvald Helmer - Krogstad
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4. Ends: 'Who knows but that - on the lower frequencies - I speak for you?'
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5. Wrote 'Anatomy of Criticism' and 'The Well-Tempered Critic' - 'centripetal' and 'centrifugal'
Frye
Flaubert
metaphysics of presence (Derrida)
Auerbach
6. Group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective.
'The Castle' (Kafka)
'Three Sisters'
Pierre Bezukhov
Geneva School
7. 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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8. Dmitri Razumikhin and Katerina Ivanova
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9. Based on Euripides' 'Hippolytus' - Tells of a mother'S love for her step-son during her husband'S absence. She drinks poison at the end.
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10. Epistolary novel (letters sent to Wilhelm) set in the fictional village of Wahlheim
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11. Wrote the pacifist 'Dublin trilogy'
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12. Set in Yonville. She has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty - wealth - passion - and high society. It is the disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life that impels her to commit adultery and a
Andromache
'The Black Sheep' (Balzac)
Emma Bovary (Roualt)
Dr. Rieux
13. Zosima
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14. 'The Heresy of Paraphrase' - Wrote 'The Well Wrought Urn' and 'Understanding Poetry'
'Disgrace' (Coetzee)
Tolstoy ('What is Art?')
'Crime and Punishment'
(Cleanth) Brooks
15. Dolores Haze
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16. Chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel employs a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order - as well as an unreliable narrator.
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17. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor
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18. Jorgan Tesman
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19. 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
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20. Set in Amsterdam - it consists of a series of second-person dramatic monologues of a penitent judge.
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21. 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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22. Achilles' son
Ivan ('The Brothers Karamazov')
'The Magic Mountain' (represents the Dionysian principle)
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
Pyrrhus
23. The Patna and Patusan - Begins: 'Stately - plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead - bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.' Begins: 'All this happened - more or less'
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24. Begins: 'If I am out of my mind - it'S all right with me.'
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25. Most of it is a thirty-year flashback. Peter Ivanovich - Gerasim
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26. 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
Baudelaire
'Desire Under the Elms' (O'Neil)
(Barbara) Pym
(Raymond) Williams
27. The daughter of King Minos and wife of Theseus.
'The Balcony' (Genet)
Phaedra
(Gyorgy) Lukacs
Ionesco
28. A rich and rakish landowner who seduces Emma as one more addition to a long string of mistresses. Though occasionally charmed by Emma - he feels little true emotion towards her.
(John) Barth
Hermione
Rodolphe (Boulanger)
'The Magic Mountain' (represents the Dionysian principle)
29. Wrote 'The Shadow of a Gunman' and 'Red Roses for Me'
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30. 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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31. 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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32. David Lurie is a professor of English at a technical university in Cape Town who seduces a student and loses everything: his reputation - his job - his peace of mind - his good looks - his dreams of artistic success - and finally even his ability to
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33. 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.
Sonya (Marmeladov)
Rodolphe (Boulanger)
'The Good Soldier' (Ford)
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (Williams)
34. 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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35. Ephraim Cabot and Abbie Putnam
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36. Wrote 'The Discourse on Language' - Wrote 'Truth and Power' and 'What is an Author?'
(Michel) Foucault
(Roland) Barthes
Alceste
(Stanley) Fish
37. 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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38. Wrote 'Epistemology of the Closet' and 'Between Men'
Pierre Bezukhov
Alyosha ('The Brothers Karamazov')
Sedgwick (Queer theory)
Celimene ('The Misanthrope')
39. Raskolinikov'S sister - she is decisive and brave - ending her engagement with Luzhin when he insults her family and fending off Svidrigailov with gunfire.
'The Fall' (Camus)
Dunya
'The Death of Ivan Illych' (Tolstoy)
(Lyubov) Ranevskaya
40. 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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41. '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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42. The narrator - K. - arrives in a village governed by a mysterious bureaucracy - Frieda and Klamm
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43. 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
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44. The protagonist of 'The Mill on the Floss.' Her brother is Tom.
Maggie Tulliver
Humbert Humbert
Alyosha ('The Brothers Karamazov')
Phaedra
45. Ends: 'Yes - she thought - laying down her brush in extreme fatigue - I have had my vision.'
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46. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle
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47. Heterotopia and parrhesia - 'Regimes of truth' and 'Surveillance' - 'gaze' and 'archive'
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48. 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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49. Wrote 'Problems of Dostoyevsky' and 'Rabelais and His World'
Sonya (Marmeladov)
(Bertolt) Brecht
Bakhtin
'Middlemarch'
50. Felix and Charles
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