MEDIA - LIT Flashcards
Wrote the graphic novels Beverley and Sabrina?
Nick DRNASO
Look Homeward, Angel (1929) was the debut work of which major American novelist whose early death (at 37) and enormous size (he was almost 7’ tall) - not to mention his prodigious talent - have made him a cult figure amongst the American literati?
Thomas WOLFE
The subatomic particles known as quarks get their name from the line “Three quarks for muster Mark” from James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake. Which seabird - with the Latin binomial Chroicocephalus ridibundus - was responsible for speaking the line?
Black headed gull
Who wrote the novel The Willing Fleash on which the Peckinpah film Cross of Iron was based?
Willi HEINRICH
Name of title character in Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter?
Frank bascombe
Korean writer of 1960 novel The Square?
Choi UN HOON
Russian female writer of Sonechka, and Daniel Stern Interpreter
LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA
born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938)[2] is a Kenyan writer and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu and who formerly wrote in English. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children’s literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His short story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright, is translated into 100[3] languages from around the world.[
NGUGI WA THIONGO
a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890 by P.G. Philipsens Forlag.[1] The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century[2] and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature.
HUNGER
Whose 1977 novel GATEWAY clean swept the sci fi awards that year
FREDERIK POHL
Which American author wrote the 1913 autobiographical novel John Barleycorn which detailed his lifelong struggle with alcoholism?
jACK london
- In Voltaire’s novel Candide, what is the name of the Manichaean scholar whom the title character meets in Suriname? The exact opposite of Pangloss, he is convinced that the world is full of fools.
MARTIN
is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. Written in the form of a first-person confessional monologue, it describes the protagonist,, passion for Panfilo, a Florentine merchant, and takes place in Naples. It has been characterised as the first psychological novel in Western literature. It consists of a prologue and nine chapters.
elegy of lady FIAMETTA
Although he is the primary narrator of Absalom! Absalom!, Quentin Compson’s own story, and suicide, is told in which other novel by William Faulkner?
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
Which oft-controversial American cognitive linguist is best known for his thesis that lives of individuals are significantly influenced by the central metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena? His idea was first introduced in the 1980 book Metaphors We Live By which he co-authored with Mark Johnson.
George LAKOFF
