Authors Part 2

Question 1

Leader of the utilitarian reformers

Answer 1

Jeremy Bentham

Question 2

Two type of anti - utilitarians

Answer 2

• Carlyle
  Sartor Resartus
• John Henry Newman

Question 3

1870 - 1901 : decay of Victorian values

Answer 3

• Rudyard Kipling
• Jospeh Conrad
• swiburne — poems and ballads
• Browning — the ring and the book 📕
• Matthew Arnold — attacked the puritan
• Tennyson - maud
• Elizabeth Barrett browning — aurora leigh

Question 4

Victorian novel 1st generation avec 1 œuvre chacun

Answer 4

• Charles dickens (1812): pickwick papers
• Elizabeth Gaskell : north and south
• charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
• George Eliot: middlemarch
• Wilkie Collins : the woman in white
• George Meredith
• William makepeace tackeray: vanity fairs

Question 5

Anti realist element

Answer 5

Combine realism with gothic or melancholic element —- > Wilkie Collins

Question 6

Novelist with most success representing contemporary

Answer 6

Anthony Trollope

Question 7

Second generation of Victorian age + 1 oeuvre chacun

Answer 7

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)
  The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Thomas hardy (1840)
  Far from the madding crowd
  Jude the obscur
• Joseph Conrad (1857)
  Victory
  Heart of darkness, lord Jim

Question 8

Modern age : modernity and modernism 1900- 1930

Answer 8

A literary and artistic movement marked by a break from the past characterized by deep shifts in worldview.

Question 9

Major works of modern age

Answer 9

Heart of darkness — Conrad
Interpretation of dreams — Freud
Theory of relativity — Einstein
Psychology of the unconscious— Jung

Question 10

Definition of / stream of consciousness technique

Answer 10

A literary technique capturing real time thoughts, often fragmented and non linear
Pioneer : Dorothy Richardson
Pointed roofs

Question 11

The modernist novel

Answer 11

• James Joyce
  Dubliners — Ulysses
• Virginia Woolf
  Mrs Dalloway — the voyage out
• D.H. Lawrence
  Women in love — the rainbow 🌈

Question 12

The importance of Irish drama — writers + œuvres

Answer 12

• Oscar Wilde (1854)
  A doll’s house — lady Windermere’s fan
• Shaw
  Arms and the man — Candida
• Synge
  Riders to the sea — the playboy
• yeats
  The countess Cathleen

Question 13

After WWII — theatre of the absurd def

Answer 13

A movement in drama emphasizing the absurdity of the human conditions between 1940 and 1960.
Non sens dialogue
Repetitive or meaningless action
Non realistic

Question 14

Playwrights most associated with theatre of the absurd

Answer 14

• Harold Pinter / Nobel prize 🏆 2005
  The room — the dumb water
• Samuel Beckett //novel prize 🏆 1969
  Waiting for gabot
• Tom stoppard
  Travesties
  The real inspector hound

Question 15

Prose : anti- utopias def

Answer 15

Novels reflections dystopian themes

Question 16

The angry young men def

Answer 16

Novels expressing discontent or anger against the establishment

Question 17

Key authors - anti- utopians

Answer 17

• Huxley
  Brave new world 🌎
• George Orwell
  Nineteen eighty four
• Anthony burgess
  A clockwork orange
  William Golding
  Lord the files

Question 18

The angry young men authors

Answer 18

• John Braine
  A room at the top
• Allan Sillitoe
  A Saturday night and Sunday morning

Question 19

J. R. R. Tolkien

Answer 19

Born in 1892
Works:
- the hobbit (1937)
- the lord of the rings (1950s)

Question 20

7 key concepts of post modern

Answer 20

1. Death of the grand narrative
2. Metafiction
3. Intertextuality
4. Pastiche
5. Hybridity
6. Fragmentarism
7. Dissolution of the I

Question 21

Academic novels def + authors

Answer 21

Novelistic comedy written by university teachers
- David lodge : changing places
Nice work

• graham swift :
  Waterland

Question 22

Magic realism

Answer 22

Combines realism + fantastic elements
- John Fowles :
The aristos
- Angela Carter
Nights at the circus 🎪

Question 23

Authors metafiction + def

Answer 23

Many works that are called postmodern fountain metafictional elements
Authors
- A. S. Byatt
- umberto Eco
- John Irving
- Stephen king - misery

Question 24

Intertextuality

Answer 24

When a text is metafictional and refers to itself and others texts weaning the relationships between text and reality

Ex : Tim Burton : Mars attacks
Wells — the war of the worlds

Question 25

Pastiche

Answer 25

Mixes various style and subjects without mocking the original

Question 26

Hybridity

Answer 26

Julian Byrnes — Flaubert parrot combines

Question 27

Fragmentarism

Answer 27

Narrative structure often discontinuous and fragmented

Question 28

Dissolution of the I

Answer 28

Personal identity is uncertain and fluid

Question 29

3 authors post modern novels

Answer 29

• John fowles
  The French lieutenant’s woman 🧍‍♀️
• Graham swift — post modern realist
  Waterland —- historical narratives
• Julian Barnes
  Flaubert’s parrot

Question 30

Commonwealth writers

Answer 30

• Andre brink
  A dry white season
• Naipaul
  India: a wounded civilization
• C. Salmon Rushdie
  Midnight’s children 👧

Question 31

Oscar Wilde

Answer 31

• 1854 born in clerical family, Dublin
  His prose
• “the canterville Ghost 👻 “
• “the picture of Dorian Gray”
  Became a book critic for : Pall Mall Gazette 🗞️
  Imprisonment: accusation of homosexuality
  Aesthetic movement