Modern And Postmodern Flashcards

(14 cards)

1
Q

What term describes the blending of high and low culture often found in Postmodern literature?

A

Pastiche

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Who is the author of ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, a novel that blends Victorian and Postmodern elements?

A

John Fowles

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3
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Which Modernist poet is known for the line ‘April is the cruellest month’?

A

T.S. Eliot

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Who is the author of ‘A Clockwork Orange’, a novel that explores themes of free will and societal control?

A

Anthony Burgess

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5
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Who is known for the Postmodern work ‘The Rest is Noise’, examining the history of 20th-century music?

A

Alex Ross

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6
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Who wrote the Modernist novel ‘Mrs. Dalloway’?

A

Virginia Woolf

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7
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Who wrote the Postmodern novel ‘The Crying of Lot 49’?

A

Thomas Pynchon

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8
Q

Pygmalion was first performed in what language?

A

German

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9
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Subtitle of “The Good Soldier”

A

A Tale of Passion

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10
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Pen name of Mary Ann Evans

A

George Elliott

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11
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George Elliot’s real name

A

Mary Ann Evans

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12
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Middlemarch by __

A

George Elliott

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13
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Silas Marner by _

A

George Elliott

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