J-03018 Flashcards
Which work by Tennyson is the story of a fisherman, who is shipwrecked, and after spending 10 years on a desert island, returns home to discover, that his beloved wife, believing him dead has remarried and has a new child?
Enoch Arden
Lord Tennyson became the poet laureate in
1850
Tennyson wrote In Memoriam in the memory of
Arthur Hallam
Tennyson’s Enoch Arden appeared in
1864
“Memorial Verses” by Mathew Arnold pays tribute to?
Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron
The Proust screenplay
Book by Harold Pinter
Who wrote screenplay’s of French lieutenant woman and Margaret Atwood’s handmaid’s Tale
Harold Pinter
1649 to 1660 is known as?
commonwealth period
A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess that portrays the life of?
Christopher Marlowe
first English book to be printed
he Recuyell of the Histories of Troye by Raoul Lefèvre
‘Account of the Augustan Age in England’ (1759) was written by?
Oliver Goldsmith
Eminent Victorians (1918 ) is a book by
Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians is a book consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Name the four
Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon
Song of St. Cecilia is by?
Dryden
Faber Book of Modern Verse was a poetry anthology by?
Michael Roberts
A Modern Instance
Novel by William Dean Howells
The Age of Innocence
Novel by Edith Wharton
The Naked and the Dead
Novel by Norman Mailer
Catch-22
Novel by Joseph Heller
Blood in the Sun is a Literary series by?
Nuruddin Farah
Blood in the Sun is a Literary series by Nuruddin Farah has three books. What are they called?
Maps, Gifts, Secrets
Langue and parole is a theoretical linguistic dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his
Course in General Linguistics
The French term langue means?
the abstract, systematic rules and conventions of a signifying system; it is independent of, and pre-exists, the individual user. It involves the principles of language, without which no meaningful utterance, or parole, would be possible (it is the language occasion)
The French term parole means?
parole (‘speech’) refers to the concrete instances of the use of langue, including texts which provide the ordinary research material for linguistics (we learn as children - grammar etc)
John Heywood wrote a Play called the four P’s; who were the four P’s
a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary,(apothecary) a pedler
Top Girls
Play by Caryl Churchill
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing is the story of a woman named?
Anna Wulf
The Swimming-Pool Library
novel by Alan Hollinghurst
Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is based on an utopian state called?
Bensalem
Name the magazine associated with Movement literature
Departure, New Poems
A.R. Ammons parodies Wordsworth’s poem - The world is too much with us- in his which poem?
Swoggled
Evelina, Novel by Frances Burney has the subtitle?
the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World
mysomousoi means?
Word used by Philip Sydney to describe poet haters in the Defense of Poetry
The Intentional Fallacy and Affective Fllacy are essays published in 1940’s by?
Wimsatt and Beardsley
The Tower is a Book of poems by William Butler Yeats published in?
1928
The Book of Night Women
Novel by Marlon James
ghosts
John Banville
One for the Road
One-act play by Harold Pinter
The Oxford India Premchand translations are edited by?
David Rubin, Alok Rai and Christopher King
Spa town of Bath is a primary location in which novels of Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons) is a series of four poems by Alexander Pope. Who are they addressed to?
Cobham, Lady( Martha Blount), Bathurst, Burlington
Mother Courage and Her Children
Play by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin. Name mother courage.
Anna Fierling
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)
Nirad Choudhary
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! is a sequence to the book by Nirad Chupdhary known as?
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)
The Continent of Circe (1965)
Nirad Choudhary
In John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Amans, the lover makes his confession to the priest named?
Genius
Chairs
Eugene Ionesco
Sordello (poem) is a very hard poem by?
Robert Browning about a troubadour named Sordello
Sordello is a poem by Robert Browning about the Troubador named Sordello from?
Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio.
tristram shandy’s preface appears in?
volume 3
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh owes its title to?
The Waste Land
the wandering jew’s soliloquy
p b Shelley
Where, according to T.S. Eliot, are we likely to find “not only the best, but the most individual
parts of a poet’s work” ?
in those parts where the dead poets assert their immortality.
Who, among the following, collaborated with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten Principal
Upanishads into English ?
W.B. Yeats
To Penshurst
Ben Jonson’s
The example for the country house poem is Ben Jonson’s ———, published in 1616
To Penshurst
The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence - ‘Double, double, toil and trouble’. – of whom does Samuel Johnson write with these words?
Thomas Gray
Some god o’ th’ island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the King my father’s wrack,
This music crept by me upon the waters,
are line spoken by?
These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describe Ariel’s music.
The lines spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describing Ariel’s music is also used in T S Eliot’s
The Waste Land
“The Storming of Seringapatam” is the prologue of?
Moonstone by Wilie Collins
“Gerontion”
T.S. Eliot
The mountain is a poem by?
Louis Gluck
