POETRY
DRAMA
PROSE NARRATIVE
MIXED MEDIA
THEORY
100
This hallmark of the sonnet form typically appears somewhere towards its end.
What is the "volta"?
100
Shakespeare's Prospero was once the duke of this Italian city.
What is Milan?
100
Define the following terms: FABULA and SYUZHET.
FABULA: Chronological order of events in the story.
SYUZHET: Order in which events are presented to the reader.
100
The United Farm Workers' activism in the mid and late 1960s centered on the production of this commodity.
What are grapes?
100
"Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction"
Ursula LeGuin; Re-imagining of narrative as a way of gathering/collecting, rather than a propagation of violence and power. Important entailments for how narrative shapes our sense of the "human."
200
This poem contains the lines: "I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,/ Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,/ But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet/ Wherewith the seasonable month endows/ The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild"
What is John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"?
200
This text contains the line: "A play is not a flat work of literature, not a description in poetry of another world, but is in itself another world passing before you in time and space."
What is Elinor Fuchs's "Some Questions to Ask a Play"?
200
The Anglo-American writer Henry James explained prose narrative using this analogy.
What is the "house of fiction"?
BONUS: Explain the theory.
200
The below frame typifies this kind of cinematic shot (27:36).
What is a long shot?
200
"Panopticon"
Jeremy Bentham; a circular/elliptical architectural design in which a central, pillar affords a clear view into the surrounding cells.
BONUS: Foucault's use of this concept?
300
This metric foot contains two syllables; the first STRESSED, and the second UNSTRESSED.
What is a trochee?
300
This was the subject of Eilert Lovborg and Thea Elvsted's lost manuscript in Hedda Gabler.
What is "the future of humanity"?
300
After becoming Beauplaisir's town mistress as Fantomina, the protagonist of Eliza Haywood's "intreague" successively adopts these false identities (100 each).
Who are the maid "Celia," the widow "Bloomer," and the lady "Incognita"?
BONUS: How does Beauplaisir meet each of these women? (All or nothing.)
300
The three stories of Ship of Theseus correspond to these core principles of classical Indian philosophy.
What are (Sanskrit/English)?
BONUS: Provide either the translation or the original Sanskrit (all or nothing).
300
"Cyborg"
Donna Haraway; dualism as a way to revise dichotomies of ontology (e.g. nature/culture, mind/body). The cyborg is a hybrid creature that figures the collapse-- or fundamental fictionality-- of our ontological and epistemic divisions.
400
This poem contains the lines: "For my lord's guilt thus faultless bide I pain,/ Yet from my lord shall not my foot remove:/ Sweet is the death that taketh end by love."
What is Petrarch's "Rime 140"?
BONUS: Whose translation?
400
This play contains the following line: "The righteous have to forgive the unrighteous."
What is UBU AND THE TRUTH COMMISSION?
BONUS: Which character says this?
400
Nella Larsen's Passing (1929) is largely written from this narrative perspective.
What is "third-person close"/"third-person limited"/"free indirect discourse"?
400
The following scene typifies this cinematography technique.
What is a "tracking shot"?
BONUS: What is the name of this film, and who directed it? (all or nothing.)
400
"Critical fabulation"
Saidiya Hartman; Within the limits and silences of the archive, the critic may pontificate about that which is absent. Critically, however, the purpose of critical fabulation is not to create a new account, but demonstrate the impossibility of restoring what was fundamentally broken. The ethics of fabulation turn upon this insistence of loss.
500
The Greek poet Sappho would have described her writing using this term.
What is "melic poetry"?
500
Twenty-five years into his career, the playwright Henrik Ibsen committed to writing plays of this type, i.e. plays of "ordinary life."
What is "realist drama" or "naturalist drama"?
BONUS: What was the first play he wrote in this category?
500
This text contains the following passage: "If one regards such passage as a 'crisis,' then it is precisely because it is riddled with turning points, sudden ruts and rifts in the road when the way seemed smooth and clear... and from that perspective, African-American cultural apprenticeship offers, by definition, crisis not as a state of exception, but rather, as a steady state"
What is Hortense Spillers's "Time and Crisis: Questions for Psychoanalysis and Race"?
500
This sociologist wrote the following statement: "Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments."
Who is Michel-Rolfe Trouillot, in "The Power in the Story"?
BONUS: 25 for each of the 4 moments!
500
"Mimicry"
Homi Bhabha; A form of colonial control encouraged by the colonizer, whereby the colonized is pressed into a pattern of imperfect cultural replication. The asymptotic relationship with the imperial identity helps to enforce the crucial difference between colonizer and colonized, but mimicry may also become a form of anticolonial resistance through MOCKERY.