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Name of the core text and its author.
What is Cat in the Rain and Ernest Hemingway?
100
Name of the famous minimalist writer in the 1980s.
Who is Raymond Carver?
100
Name of the core text in the topic.
What is Neighbors?
100
The writer of the following quote: "I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg".
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
100
Jayne Anne Phillips' text in the topic
What is Solo Dance?
200
Language spoken (apart from English) in Cat in the Rain.
What is Italian?
200
Writer born in 1899.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
Title of the painting (by Amy Bennett) which could be related to the short story Neighbors.
What is Exposure?
200
Writer of the following quote: "I loved the work of silence. The work that happens between the lines and the work that happens in the end of the line."
Who is Jayne Anne Phillips?
200
An addiction which is quite common in Carver's work.
What is alcoholism?
300
An important theme in "Cat in the Rain" that relates to the relationship between the couple.
What is gender roles?
300
Decades in which Hemingway wrote most of his Works.
What is the 1920s and the 1930s?
300
Title of the painting (by Edward Hopper) which can be related to "The Idea"
What is Night Windows?
300
Writer of the following quote: "When I start a story I very often have a visual image that gets me into the material, and it's often something that's right in front of me, often a very ordinary thing[...]"
Who is Ann Beattie?
300
A common problem between the male and female characters in a lot of Carver's short stories.
What is (lack of) communication?
400
Name of the character who can be described with the following adjectives: materialistic and two-faced.
What is Andrea?
400
The person was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. The son of a violent alcoholic, he married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit'. A career that would eventually kill him.
Who is Raymond Carver?
400
Being stuck in life, Envy & Dissatisfaction
What is themes in "The Idea"?
400
He described himself as "inclined toward brevity and intensity" and "hooked on writing short stories."
Who is Raymond Carver?
400
Unraveling, breakdown & deviation
What is themes in Celia is Back?
500
A representative of going in and coming out, beginnings and endings.
Who is Janus?
500
Author of the words: "If a writer knows enough of what he is writing about, he may omit things he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
500
Uneventful middle class lifestyle, jealousy & lack of communication.
What is themes in Neighbors?
500
Writer of the words: "I don't really have enough information myself to know how the story is going to conclude, but that's a vulnerability that I think is part of the fun of being a writer [...]"
Who is Ann Beattie?
500
Writer of the following: "I not only don't want the explanation, I want the mystery."
Who is Amy Hempel?