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GRE Literature: World Literature

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


2. A young law student who seems to share Emma'S appreciation for the finer things in life - and who returns her admiration






3. 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


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


5. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






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


7. Among other artists - he specifically condemns Wagner and Beethoven as examples of overly cerebral artists - who lack real emotion. Furthermore - the Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) - cannot claim to be able to 'infect' their audience—as it pretends—with


8. 'The postmodern condition' and 'The collapse of the grand narrative'






9. (A lawyer and a painter) Herr Huld and Titorelli


10. 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.






11. 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.


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


13. Settembrini and Naphta


14. Borodino


15. 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


16. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.






17. Group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective.






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


19. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.


20. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband'S death - and expects her daughter to do the same.


21. Claire and Solange


22. 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


23. 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


24. The story documents the troubles of Tayo - a Native American World War II veteran who strives to overcome PTSD and end the drought that is devastating his Laguna Pueblo people.


25. Reification and class consciousness - Wrote 'The Theory of the Novel' and 'The Historical Novel'






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






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


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


29. 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






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


31. 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.






32. Native American novelist and poet.






33. '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.


34. 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.'


35. Metafictional American writer who wrote 'Lost in the Funhouse' and 'Chimera'






36. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






37. 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


38. Wrote 'Structure - Sign - and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' and 'Speech and Phenomena'






39. Hector'S wife






40. Parnell and Cranly


41. Amanda and Laura Wingfield - Jim O'Connor


42. 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.


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


44. 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


45. Wrote 'Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels' and 'The Critic as Host'






46. 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






47. Dolores Haze


48. The husband of Emma Bovary.






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






50. 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.