Literatura Inglesa III

Two emblematic Modernist authors that put into practice in their literature the new theories of the instability of space and the subjective perception of time through the techniques known as “Moment of Being” and “Epiphany.”

Name of the soldier who suffers from shell shock syndrome in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.

When do the events in Mrs. Dalloway take place?

An illness that affected many World War I veterans, producing in them insistent, almost real-life memories of the war. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, the character of Septimus Warren Smith is affected by this psychological condition.

What is the original title Woolf was going to give to the novel and later changed to Mrs. Dalloway.

The setting of the crucial final scene/episode in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway (be as specific as possible).

A concept coined by Friedrich Nietzsche which presents experience as cyclical and endlessly repeated. It had a great influence on Modernist literature, as we can see in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway or James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Name of the Woolf’s female heroine who kills herself trapped by the confines of the expectations of women and unable to carry out her artistic genius.

Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave;

According to Virginia Woolf, the ideal state of mind in which to produce art: the perfect balance or combination of the masculine and the feminine.

Title of Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking essay where she explores her opinion that the ideal state of mind in which to produce art is an androgynous one.

Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out, she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history.

The names of the two women lovers that influence spiritually and physically Paul Morel in Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers.

The literary genre in which Son and Lovers could be classified.

In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, two linked characters that can be considered to embody a series of oppositions: middle class versus working class, intellect versus force, reflection versus instinct.

Name at least one of the conventions of 19th century fiction that D. H. Lawrence challenged in his innovative work.

Who does Paul meet that introduces him to the family members and the life in the Leivers’ farm?

What is the communal profession the main character in Sons and Lovers is surrounded by during his childhood?

A “novel of formation”, i.e. one that traces the development and growth of the main character, often from childhood/adolescence to maturity; D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is an example of this narrative genre.

In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, a character about whom the narrator (through Paul’s perspective) says: “She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him [Paul] and not being claimed by him.”

Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
To accommodate the regiments of miners, Carston, Waite and Co. built the Squares, great quadrangles of dwellings on the hillside of Bestwood, and then, in the brook valley, on the site of Hell Row, they erected the Bottoms.

Name of Paul’s parents in D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.

A linguistic formula that takes the shape of a short sentence that mocks our own preconceived ideas about life, society or beliefs, used recurrently to create satire and parody in The Importance of Being Earnest.

A cultural period and its values, which Oscar Wilde criticizes with great wit and irony in The Importance of Being Earnest.

In The Importance of Being Earnest, the name of Algernon’s imaginary friend used as an excuse by this young gentleman to occasionally escape from London and its strict codes of behaviour.

Spatial opposites, places leading to different kinds of life and cultural attitudes, represented through the real and imaginary characters in The Importance of Being Earnest.

A memorable female character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest; she is the type of an aristocratic English lady.

A sentence containing a wise or witty comment; Oscar Wilde’s style is identified with this type of sentences. For example: “In married life three is company and two none” (The Importance of Being Earnest).

Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
That is obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not lasted up to the present day. And you do not seem to realise, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray.

Author of De Profundis, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Ballad of Reading Gaol among other literary works.

The followers of a movement with a particular vision of art and way of life based on aestheticism and art for art’s sake contextualized at the end of the nineteenth century, to which Oscar Wilde belonged.

Aesthetic dictum which Oscar Wilde and some other British artists followed. It consisted of pursuing beauty and pleasure as an end in itself, subverting Victorian pragmatism.

The three sections in which Passage to India is divided that symbolize three spiritual and cultural approaches to the knowledge of India

The place where the main event of misunderstanding and mysticism takes place in Passage to India and from which the rest of the novel will evolve.

The complete name of the author of A Passage to India.

An imaginary setting established by E. M. Forster as a prototypical Indian town in A Passage to India; the first chapter of the novel is a rich description of its historical past and social atmosphere.

A character in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India who comes to India to marry Mrs Moore’s son.

Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
Beyond the railway— which runs parallel to the river— the land sinks, then rises again rather steeply. On the second rise is laid out the little civil station, and viewed hence Chandrapore appears to be a totally different place. It is a city of gardens. It is no city, but a forest sparsely scattered with huts.

The American poet from whose work E. M. Forster took the title of his last novel.

An intellectual and artistic group E. M. Foster belonged to.

A main opposite the metaphor of “darkness” and “light” symbolize in Heart of Darkness.

Kurtz’s famous last words heard and recalled by Marlow in Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness.

The Berlin Conference, held in 1885, set up rules to control colonization in Africa, allowing free access to navigate two main rivers. One of them will be the main geographical context for Heart of Darkness. Name these two rivers.

The complete name of the author of Heart of Darkness.

In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the name used to refer to the Congo headquarters of the trading company that employs Marlow and had previously employed Kurtz.

The city where the trading company that employs Marlow—and had previously employed Kurtz—is based; it is vividly described by the main narrator, who defines it as “a whited sepulchre”.

Term used in Heart of Darkness, with reference to the city of Brussels, and by extension to civilised and developed cities, which Marlow perceives as dead places dominated by hypocrisy and materialism.

Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.

Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, ‘followed the sea’ with reverence and affection, that to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames.

The title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s poems that euphemistically refers to the effects of imperialism on the British citizens and government.

The title of an immensely popular poem—by a famous Anglo- Indian author—which justified imperialism as a messianic cause; after its publication, the poem has been the object of controversy and parody.

The author and main British writer of colonial times that wrote the poem “The White Man’s Burden”

Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—

The year of publication of two major and groundbreaking works of British Modernism: T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land and James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.

Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Name of the war poet who was never included in any of Marsh’s anthologies but he felt very closely related to the movement, he wrote the first stanza of unpublished The Ballad of Peace and War’.

Name two War poets who were critical to WWI nationalist enthusiasm and social support for soldiers (and Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves)

A war poet that became the icon of the country’s enthusiastic confidence in the triumph of First World War due to the publication of his sonnet sequence “1914”.

The title of any of the sonnets by Rupert Brooke that make up the sequence “1914”, and which convey the poet’s experience of and reflections on World War I.

Title of the poem by John McCrae about the Great War that originated the symbol of the red poppy for Remembrance Day.

Poem by Canadian poet John McCrae, the only one by which he would be remembered and from where is taken the red poppy as the symbol of Remembrance Day.

The title of one of the most popular autobiographies of World War I, written by a female author; it captured the collective mood of the members of a “lost generation” whose lives were truncated or determined by the conflict.

Author of Testament of Youth, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War.

Philosopher who proclaimed that 'God is dead' and was the first to consider human responsibility in a universe without God author of Thus Spoke Zarathusta: A Book fo Everyone and No One.

Two great thinkers, one scientist and one philosopher, from the nineteenth century whose work influenced enormously the new interpretations of the ever-changing world at the beginning of the twentieth-century.

A writer of South-African origin, associated with socialist, feminist and anti-colonialist movements in Britain, in the second half of the twentieth century. The heroines in her novels and short stories can be identified with the type of the “New Woman”.

A French movement introduced in England by Walter Pater that influenced the Decadent movement to which Oscar Wilde belonged.

British woman Classicist and social anthropologist who contributed to the matriarchal discourse initiated by Johann Bachofen in the 1860s.

Either of the two theoretical concepts championed by T. S. Eliot in his early work as a critic; his ideal was for artists to avoid directly expressing individual feelings, emotions and experiences.

A sentence that represented the full-grown land seizure in Africa by the European powers, becoming a primary source of trade after 1880.

The printing press Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded and served as a publishing venue for experimental writing by Modernist authors.

A kind of poetry studied in the course which developed from 1914. It provided original writing techniques in form and themes trying to transform atrocity into art.

Psychologist who proposes the “death drive”, the theoretical view that advocates for an instinctual want felt by organic organisms towards death, self-destruction and return to inorganic chemistry.

Author of ‘They’ a poem that transforms horror into satirical laughter through a masterful use of direct speech technique.

In David Lodge’s words, a type of thought and speech presentation “in which the grammatical subject is an “I”, and we [the readers], as it were, overhear the character verbalising his or her thoughts as they occur”.

Plays of modern life set in the rarefied world of the upper classes. These plays could be witty and frivolous light comedies, or they could be ponderous dramatic treatises on difficult social issues, most often the sexual “double standard” and the problem of the “fallen woman”.

A phrase used to refer both to Britain during World War I, and to the support movement to the cause and the troops, both moral and logistic, from the people who did not fight the war.