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GRE Literature: World Literature

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1. Garcin - Inez - and Estelle


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






3. Eilif - Kattrin - and Swiss Cheese


4. Wrote 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' and 'Contingency - Irony - and Solidarity' - ironism - final vocabulary - and postphilosophy






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






6. 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


7. He is a pompous speechmaker - endlessly rattling on about medical techniques and theories that he really knows nothing about. His presence serves - in part - to heighten our sense of Emma'S frustration with her life.






8. Wrote 'Allegories of Reading' and 'The Resistance to Theory' - Wrote 'Semiology and Rhetoric'






9. The illegitimate son of a wealthy count - who upon receiving an unexpected inheritance is suddenly burdened with responsibility and conflict. His former carefree behavior vanishes and he enters upon a philosophical quest of how one should live a mora






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






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






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


13. Wrote 'Irony as a Principle of Structure'






14. Orgon and Elmire - Damis - Mariane - and Dorine


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


16. '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.


17. 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.'


18. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -






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


20. Hector'S wife






21. Dmitri Razumikhin and Katerina Ivanova


22. Concerns a man who is so intimidated by femininity that he resolves to marry his young - naïve ward and proceeds to make clumsy advances to this purpose. The final act introduces a powerful irony as Oronte and Enrique arrive on the scene and announce


23. The protagonist of 'The Stranger'






24. Gynocriticsm - 'Toward a Feminist Poetics'






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


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


27. 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.


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






29. It tells the story of the Bridau family (Phillipe and Joseph) - trying to regain their lost inheritance after a series of unfortunate mishaps.


30. The Guermantes


31. A one-act play which explores themes of isolation - miscommunication - social disparity - and dehumanization in a commercial world. The main characters are Peter and Jerry. Concludes with a stabbing in Central Park.


32. Leading formalist who wrote 'Morphology of the Folktale'






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


34. 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.


35. Dunya'S depraved yet generous former employer who attempts to rape her.






36. 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


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






38. Claire and Solange


39. The protagonist of 'Pere Goriot'






40. Joachim Ziemssen and Clavdia Chauchat


41. 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.






42. Settembrini and Naphta


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.


44. 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


45. Wrote 'The Laugh of the Medusa'






46. Jewel and Gentleman Brown


47. 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.






48. Set partially in the Berghof sanatorium.


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






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