What is an attempt to represent the world accurately?
100
Some say that this period began with Romantic writers rejecting the classicism of ancient Greece or Rome, with Flaubert, or with Darwin. But "modernism" usually describes writers who emerged at this moment in history.
What is World War I?
100
It's the difference between these terms, both of which describe the second half of the 20th century.
What is post-WWII from the perspective of colonized peoples vs. the perspective of former colonizers?
100
Name two of the works we studied in which a woman speaks.
"A Simple Heart," "A Doll's House," "Broken Ties," a short work from the section "The Emancipation of Women," "The Metamorphosis," "Things Fall Apart."
100
As we transitioned away from Romanticism (a period of emotion tangled with the natural landscape and a fascination with far-away, exotic places), we looked at Heinrich Heine's poem about this particular tree.
What is a spruce?
200
This is when Realism--a literary movement whose writers focused on the experiences of ordinary people and their problems--flourished.
What is the second half of the 19th century?
200
This modernist inspired the author of "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings."
Who is Kafka?
200
When modernism became an international pursuit, some writers worked to construct a cultural history and identity for their homelands. This writer challenged racism and sought to make Africa real to European and American readers.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
200
This woman bangs her hand on a table as she insists that her parents get rid of the large insect in their home.
Who is Meg/Grete/Gregory's sister?
200
This Russian Romantic writer wrote a narrative poem about Yevgeni, a simple man who is thrown into contrast with authoritarian rule.
Who is Alexander Pushkin?
300
This writer was writing as Realism flourished, but he did not focus on ordinary, daily concerns. He preferred to focus on internal debate and raise questions about Western culture and existence itself.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
300
Modernism is usually associated with psychological states of mind, alienation, and social rupture. Name one modernist author whose work we read.
Who is Kafka or Tagore?
300
This writer transformed postwar despair into a philosophy called existentialism that denied any attempt to find meaning beyond an individual's experience.
Who is Camus?
300
This is the name of Torvald Helmer's wife.
What is Nora?
300
Pushkin's 1837 "The Bronze Horseman" is subtitled "A Tale of ______."
What is St. Petersburg?
400
This realistic character seems mystified by traditional symbols (e.g., maps) and instead interprets her world through symbols that hold extraordinary importance to her.
Who is Felicite?
400
Though we read his short novel, this writer is better known for his poetry and for winning the Nobel Prize in 1913.
Who is Tagore?
400
This is referred to as "the absurd."
What is the existentialist notion that an individual is isolated without meaning in the world--the gap between what humans want and what exists?
400
This is the name of ANY ONE of Okonkwo's wives.
What is "Nwoye's mother," Ekwefi, or Ojiugo?
400
Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" is, in part, a response to this work by Joseph Conrad.
What is "Heart of Darkness"?
500
The work that we read by this author is a famous example of this particular kind of realism, which mixes realism with myth and the miraculous. Name the author and the type of realism.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez? What is magical realism?
500
The writers of this short literary movement, founded by Breton in the 1920s, incorporated precise detail and dreamlike fantasy into their work.
What is surrealism?
500
These are the names of the postcolonial/postmodern works we read.
What are "The Guest" and "Things Fall Apart."
500
This woman is sent away by at least three parties--her husband, her love interest, and her family. The narrator of her story, however, says that she "will have her place in the world, however much we may try to get rid of her."
Who is Damini?
500
Often called the "father of modern drama," this writer wrote realistic plays that shocked their 19th century audiences.