Lit. 2 Final Exam

Question 1

Absurdism

Answer 1

The philosophic and literary doctrine that humans live essentially isolated in a meaningless and irrational world

Question 2

Surrealism

Answer 2

A movement in art and literature emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control. Demonstrates a marked influence of Freud. Lucidly juxtaposes scarcely compatible tokens of potentially symbolic concrete objects.

Question 3

What did Voltaire write. And where was he from

Answer 3

Candid

France

Question 4

Moliere

Answer 4

Tartuffe

France

Question 5

De Lafayette

Answer 5

The Princess of Cleve’s

France

Question 6

Jean de la Fontain

Answer 6

Fables
The oak and the reed
France

Question 7

Age of Enlightenment/Reason writers(4)

Answer 7

Voltaire
Moliere
De Lafayette
Jean de la Fontain

Question 8

Romanticism writers 5

Answer 8

Lamartine 
Holderline 
Heine
Leopardi 
De Castro

Question 9

Lamartine

Answer 9

The Lake

France

Question 10

Holderline

Answer 10

The Half of Life
Hyperion’s Song of Fate
Brevity
Germany

Question 11

Heine

Answer 11

The Silesian Weavers
A Pine is Standing Lonely
Germany

Question 12

Leopardi

Answer 12

To Himself
To Silvia
The Infinite
Italian

Question 13

de Castro

Answer 13

A Glowworm scatters flashes through the moss
As the clouds
Some say plants
The feet of spring are on the stair
Spain

Question 14

Realism writers 4

Answer 14

Hugo
Tolstoy
Ibsen
Chekhov

Question 15

Hugo

Answer 15

Les Miserables
The hunchback of mortar dame
France

Question 16

Tolstoy

Answer 16

War and peace
Anna Karenina
Russia

Question 17

Ibsen

Answer 17

Hedda Gabbler

Norway

Question 18

Chekhov

Answer 18

The cherry orchard

Russia

Question 19

Modernism writers 4

Answer 19

Yeats
Rainer Maria Rilke
Kafka
Pirandello

Question 20

Yeats

Answer 20

The second coming

Ireland

Question 21

Rilke

Answer 21

The boy
Autumn day
The panther
Czech/Prague

Question 22

Kafka

Answer 22

Metamorphosis
Czech/Bohemia
Jewish

Question 23

Pirandello

Answer 23

Six Characters in search of an author

Italy

Question 24

Bridge between modernism and postmodernism 1

Answer 24

Borges

Question 25

Borges

Answer 25

The garden of the forking paths | Argentina

Question 26

Postmodernism 2

Answer 26

Italo Calvino | Beckett

Question 27

Beckett

Answer 27

Endgame | Irish

Question 28

Calvino | Modern and post-modern

Answer 28

Path to the nest of spiders Invisible cities Italy (lived in many other countries, Cuba, France)

Question 29

Bridge between modernism/realism and post-colonialism 1

Answer 29

Doris Lessing

Question 30

Doris Lessing

Answer 30

The old chief Mshlanga | Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), England

Question 31

Post colonialism 3

Answer 31

Salman Rusdie Derek Walcott Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Question 32

Salman Rusdie

Answer 32

The perforated sheet from "midnight's children" | Bombay, India

Question 33

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Answer 33

The Englishwoman | Prussia, Germany, India, Engliand

Question 34

Derek Walcott

Answer 34

Omeros Jewish India/St.Lucia

Question 35

Heterotopia

Answer 35

the real spaces in which cultures are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. (Each person perceiving their own reality)

Question 36

Who conceptualized Heterotopia

Answer 36

Michele Foucault

Question 37

Diaspora

Answer 37

The dispersion of any people from their original homeland | (Important concept in post colonialism

Question 38

The absurd

Answer 38

the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.