Fill in the blank
Before and After
Monstrous Monsters
Person of Interest
Beginnings
100
Nine days fierce winds drove me away from there, across the fish-filled seas, and on the tenth we landed where the ______ live, people who feed upon its flowering fruit
Who are the Lotus Eaters?
100
Thomas King novel that opens with a retelling of the Book of Genesis; name of a university in Southern Ontario
What is Green Grass, Running Waterloo?
100
This creature, "the loveliest of all immortals," turns Odysseus's men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
100
Director of the 1979 war film that borrows heavily from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Francis Ford Coppola
100
"In the beginning, there was nothing. Just water."
What is Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water?
200
______ is fiction about fiction: it draws attention to its own artifice, announcing its own status as fable rather than literal reality, and/or exposes and discusses in a systematic way the process of storytelling itself.
What is metafiction?
200
Ambiguous ghost story by Henry James, a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice
What is The Turn of the Screwdriver?
200
This creature is described as "carnivore incarnate."
What is the wolf in "The Company of Wolves"?
200
This French psychoanalyst's concept of the mirror stage not only "marks a decisive turning-point in the mental development of the child," but also "typifies an essential libidinal relationship with the body image."
Who is Jacques Lacan?
200
"A girl walks into the woods."
What is Cornelia Hoogland's Woods Wolf Girl?
300
Attorney for the Defence: Your Honour, permit me to speak to innocence of my client, _____ . (175)
Who is Odysseus?
300
Jean Rhys's retelling of Jane Eyre, nausea caused by the motion of a ship at sea.
What is Wide Sargasso Seasick?
300
This corpse-eating body snatcher limps home to have have wounds licked.
Who is the Duke in Wolf-Alice?
300
This Canadian scholar defines adaptation as, among other things, a creative and interpretive act of appropriation and/or salvaging that constitutes an extended and self conscious intertextual engagement with the adapted work.
Who is Linda Hutcheon?
300
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as on Christmas Eve in an old house a strange tale should essentially be...
What is Henry James's The Turn of the Screw?
400
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -"The Second Coming," __________
Who is William Butler Yeats?
400
Charlotte Bronte's most famous bildungsroman, nickname of former NBA great who played for the Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards.
What is Jane Eyre Jordan?
400
This disheveled servant is the ghostly embodiment of past transgressions and terrors.
Who is Peter Quint?
400
The term intertextuality originates with this thinker, who used it to signify the multiple ways in which any one literary text is, in fact, made up of other texts, by means of its open or covert citations and allusions, its repetitions and transformations of the formal and substantive features of earlier texts.
Who is Mikhail Bakhtin?
400
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
What is Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea?
500
Critics often note a connection between the tendency among French authors of the 19th century to take aim at the middle class ("epater les bourgeois") with the aims of ______ , which concerns itself with the dark legacy of imperialism, and which owes a considerable debt to both Dante's depiction of hell and to the Symboliste movement's investment in mystery.
What is Heart of Darkness?
500
Angela Carter short story collection, person who cleans bedrooms and bathrooms.
What is the bloody chambermaid?
500
This well-spoken cyclops eats two of Odysseus's men for breakfast.
Who is Polyphemus?
500
This type of narrator, first identified by Wayne Booth in 1961, speaks and acts in ways that are not in accordance with the norms of the work.
What is an unreliable narrator?
500
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth...
What is the Book of Genesis?
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