12) British and Irish Prose of the Second Half of the 20th Century

Question 1

Kazuo Ishiguro

Answer 1

A Pale View od Hills, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Klara and the Sun, The Remains of the Day

Question 2

What is The Remains of the Day, who wrote it and when?

Answer 2

a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro published in 1989

Question 3

Who narrates The Remains of the Day?

Answer 3

Stevens, an English butler

Question 4

What is the setting of The Remains of the Day?

Answer 4

it is set in 1956, with the narrative alternating between the present-day road trip and Steven’s memories of his time at Darlington Hall during the 1920s and 1930s

Question 5

What was the name of Steven’s first employer? Why was he a bit controversial?

Answer 5

Lord Darlington, he was supporting the nazis, pro-Germany causes before WWII

Question 6

What is Hilary Mantel known for?

Answer 6

for her historical fiction

Question 7

Hilary Mantel

Answer 7

Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light

Question 8

When was Wolf Hall published?

Answer 8

in 2009

Question 9

What is Wolf Hall about?

Answer 9

a fictionalized account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII

Question 10

What is the setting of Wolf Hall?

Answer 10

Tudor England, 16th century

Question 11

How does Wolf Hall end?

Answer 11

it ends with the fall of Anne Boleyn and the rise of Jane Seymour

Question 12

What are the themes in Wolf Hall?

Answer 12

power, loyalty, ambition, complexities of human relationship

Question 13

Penelope Lively

Answer 13

According to Mark, Moon Tiger

Question 14

Angela Carter

Answer 14

Nights at the Circus, Wise Children, The Sadean Woman and the Ideology of Pornography

Question 15

Kingsley Amis

Answer 15

Lucky Jim

Question 16

Doris Lessing

Answer 16

The Grass Is Singing, Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook