Most modernist literature involves the rejection or criticism of this. [>1 POSSIBLE ANSWERS]
What is TRADITION, STANDARDS, MATERIALISM, SENTIMENTALITY?
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Our Chimamande Adichie TED talk helps to illuminate the "dangers" of this concept, arguably not present in TFA.
What is the "single story?"
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Chief Bromden uses this concept as a metaphor both for his own marginalization as well as the secretive methods employed by the organization he calls "The Combine."
What is the "fog?"
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Postmodernism is most traceable to which historical event?
What is WWII?
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Much of the genre's focus on inner psychological truth is traceable back to the popularity of this Austrian psychoanalyst, famous for his Oedipal complex.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
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Okonkwo's dominance and adherence to rigid gender roles demonstrates the Igbo society's strict p___________ values.
What is patriarchal?
200
This historically controversial medical practice helps to establish McMurphy as a Christ-figure.
What is EST (or lobotomy)?
200
Never Let Me Go classifies as this type of fiction, known for its pessimistic depictions of a future or alternate state of the world.
What is dystopic/dystopian?
200
A style of narration common in postmodern literature, in which the narrator is aware of her own narration.
What is self-conscious narration?
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In James Joyce's "Araby," this common trait in Modernist fiction arises via an uncertainty regarding the word "vanity" which takes place during the "resolution" of the story.
What is an ambiguous ending?
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Name a dynamic character in TFA and argue HOW she or he is dynamic.
What is [answers may vary]?
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Kesey uses imagery and metaphor regarding this animal to emphasize the dehumanized powerlessness of the patients in the ward as a whole.
What is/are jackrabbits?
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Name at least one EUPHEMISM Ishiguro uses to establish the culture and perspective of his clones.
What is "carers," "donors," or "completing?"
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Most of postmodern literature deals with man's futile quest for, and the illusory nature of, this "M" word.
What is MEANING?
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This style of narration appears in Modernist literature as it was understood to mirror the often rambling, overlapping, never-ending thoughts occurring inside our heads.
What is stream-of-consciousness narration?
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The text "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" helps highlight how language is essential in doing this O-word to a culture.
What is Othering?
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Nurse Ratched's unequivocal villainy, combined with McMurphy's understanding of social conformity as castration or "ball-cutting" serve to understand the text as this "hateful" M-word.
What is misogynistic?
400
Of all the characters in NLMG, this character best represents the active rejection of authority.
Who is Miss Lucy?
400
Postmodernism "chops and screws" this trait of modernism to "level next the," often reorganizing or reordering narrative elements in an effort to question the very nature of stories and storytelling.
What is "fragmented narrative?"
500
E.M. Forster's "Other Side of the Hedge" is thought to be one of these, in which every narrative character, place, event or object is thought to symbolize some greater human concept.
What is an allegory?
500
In his novel Achebe was looking to combat some negative African stereotypes constructed by British novelist and explorer William Conrad, in this British novel.
What is Heart of Darkness?
500
Name at least TWO ways in which Cuckoo's Nest belongs to the Modernist genre.
What is [answers will vary].
500
The "Morningdale Scandal" as described in NLMG connects to which WWII "scientific" study propagated by Adolf Hitler?
What is eugenics?
500
In Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies," most of the postmodern elements emerge from the narrator's misinterpretation of this word.