Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
A. Sense and Suspensibility
B. Emma
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Mansfield Park
Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
A. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans
B. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
C. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,
D. All the above
According to Samuel Johnson, No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
According to Samuel Johnson, No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
A. love.
B. honor.
C. money.
D. his party.
Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
A. automatic writing
B. confused daze
C. total recall
D. stream of consciousness
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
A. art for intellect’s sake
B. art for God’s sake
C. art for the masses
D. art for art’s sake
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?
How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?
A. nothing happens-twice
B. political correctness gone mad
C. kitchen sink drama
D. angry young men
With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. anarchism
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C
Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
A. Eminent Victorians
B. Jungle Books
C. The Way of All Flesh
D. both A and C