Literature Flashcards
Nathaniel Winkle, Tracy Tupman, and Augustus Snodgrass all feature in which novel?
The Pickwick Papers (1837)
What is the aim of the Pickwickians on their travels in provincial England?
They foil the attempt of Alfred Jingle to elope with Rachael Wardle of Dingley Dell
Who is known for grotesquely humorous sayings such as “out with it, as the father said to his child, when he swallowed a farthing.”?
Sam Weller from Pickwick Papers
Who is sent to work at Dotheboys Hall by his cruel uncle Ralph?
Nicholas Nickleby, after his father dies
Wackford Squeers, Madame Mantalini and Sir Mulberry Hawk feature in which Dickensian novel?
Nicholas Nickleby
Nell Trent is the central character in which Novel?
The Old Curiosity Chop
Which was Dicken’s favourite of his own books?
David Copperfield (it is the most autobiographical)
Which character is tormented by Creakle, finds comfort in his friendships with Tommy Traddles and James Steerforth and befriends the optimistic but indebted Mr. Micawber?
David Copperfield
Which novel revolves around the Chancery case Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has dragged on for many years as family members fight over an inheritance?
Bleak House
Who is Dicken’s only female narrator?
Esther Summerson, Bleak House
The merchant Krook dies of spontaneous human combustion in which Dickens novel?
Bleak House
Thomas Gradgrind is a fact-obsessed utilitarian from Coketown from which Dickens novel?
Hard Times
Joe Gargery, Abel Magwitch and Bentley Drummle feature in which novel?
Great Expectations
Which author wrote Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary Murasaki Shikibu nikki; and a collection of tanka poems?
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Who wrote the Pillow Book (Makura no soshi), which is considered the best source of information about life at the Japanese court during the Heian period (784–1185)?
Sei Shonagon (c. 966 – c. 1013)
Who revised the works of his father Kan’ami, such as Wind in the Pines, and wrote a number of his own dramas, including the samurai play Atsumori? His Fushi kaden (The Transmission of the Flower of Acting Style) is a manual for his pupils.
Zeami
Who is known as the master of the haiku form? He wrote ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’
Matsuo Basho
Who wrote ‘A life in four chapters’ and ‘Confessions of a Mask’? He comitted ritual suicide and organized the Tate no kai — a right-wing society stressing physical fitness and the martial arts.
Yukio Mishima
Who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote ‘Thousand Cranes’, ‘The Tale of Genji; The Sound of the Mountain’ and ‘Snow Country’?
Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972)
Which Japanese writer converted to Catholicism at the age of 11, and wrote ‘White Man’, ‘Yellow Man’, ‘Silence’ and ‘The Samurai’?
Endo Shusaku (1923–1996)
Who was the recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, writing ‘Shiiku’ (The Catch) and ‘A personal matter’. His early works are filled with insanity, abuse, perverse sex, and violence
Oe Kenzaburo
Who were Mary Shelley’s parents?
William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)
Who wrote the 1826 novel The Last Man, which describes Lionel Verney’s efforts to survive a 21st-century plague that devastates human civilization?
Mary Shelley
Who created these characters (and in which novels would they each be found)? Professor Lidenbrock, Pierre Aronnax and Phileas Fogg?
Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days)
