5) 1940s and 1950s

Question 1

Name one of the founders of New Criticism

Answer 1

Robert Penn Warren

Question 2

Robert Penn Warren

Answer 2

I´ll Take My Stand, All the King´s Men

Question 3

Which novel was inspired by the life and work of the cynical populist politician Huey P. Long?

Answer 3

All the King´s Men

Question 4

Mary McCarthy

Answer 4

The Company She Keeps, The Group

Question 5

Which novel by Mary McCarthy is about a portrait of milieu in the 1930s NY, composed of stories, not necessarily in chronological order connected by the main character Meg Sargent?

Answer 5

The Company She Keeps

Question 6

Which novel written by Mary McCarthy is highly successful and controversial with topics of free love, anticonception, abortion and lesbian love?

Answer 6

The Group

Question 7

Which author is one of the founding fathers of the American theatre?

Answer 7

Tennessee Williams

Question 8

Tennessee Wiliams

Answer 8

The Glass Menagerie (breakthrough), A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Question 9

Name a modernist poet

Answer 9

Wallace Stevens

Question 10

Wallace Stevens

Answer 10

Harmonium, Transport to Summer, The Man with the Blue Guitar, The Auroras of Autmn, Collected Poems

Question 11

What is confessional poetry/confessionalism?

Answer 11

personal “I”, examination of internal experience, often probing into themes such as mental instability and sexuality, the question of propriety no longer exist

Question 12

Name writers of confessionalism

Answer 12

Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton

Question 13

Robel Lowell

Answer 13

Life Studies, Imitations, For the Union Dead

Question 14

Sylvia Plath

Answer 14

The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, The Bell Jar

Question 15

Anne Sexton

Answer 15

The Bedlam and Part Way Back, All My Pretty Ones, Transformations, The Book of Folly

Question 16

Theodore Roethke

Answer 16

The Lost Son and Other Poems, The Far Field

Question 17

Which author spent childhood in Nova Scotia and was strongly influenced by Marianne Moore?

Answer 17

Elizabeth Bishop

Question 18

I´ll Take My Stand, All the King´s Men

Answer 18

Robert Penn Warren

Question 19

The Company She Keeps, The Group

Answer 19

Mary McCarthy

Question 20

The Glass Menagerie (breakthrough), A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Answer 20

Tennessee Wiliams

Question 21

Harmonium, Transport to Summer, The Man with the Blue Guitar, The Auroras of Autmn, Collected Poems

Answer 21

Wallace Stevens

Question 22

Life Studies, Imitations, For the Union Dead

Answer 22

Robel Lowell

Question 23

The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, The Bell Jar

Answer 23

Sylvia Plath

Question 24

The Bedlam and Part Way Back, All My Pretty Ones, Transformations, The Book of Folly

Answer 24

Anne Sexton

Question 25

The Lost Son and Other Poems, The Far Field

Answer 25

Theodore Roethke