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.”.
A French movement introduced in England by Walter Pater that influenced the Decadent movement to which Oscar Wilde belonged.
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.
4. The title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s poems that euphemistically refers to the effects of imperialism on the British citizens and government.
5. Name of the soldier who suffers from shell shock syndrome in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
6. The three sections in which Passage to India is divided that symbolize three spiritual and cultural approaches to the knowledge of India.
7. 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”.
8. The names of the two women lovers that influence spiritually and physically Paul Morel in Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers.
1. A main opposite the metaphor of “darkness” and “light” symbolize in Heart of Darkness.
2. A sentence that represented the full-grown land seizure in Africa by the European powers, becoming a primary source of trade after 1880.
4. 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.
5. Title of the poem by John McCrae about the Great War that originated the symbol of the red poppy for Remembrance Day.
7. The printing press Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded and served as a publishing venue for experimental writing by Modernist authors.
8. When do the events in Mrs. Dalloway take place?.
1. 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.
2. Kurtz’s famous last words heard and recalled by Marlow in Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness.
Name at least one of the conventions of 19th century fiction that D. H. Lawrence challenged in his innovative work.
5. A cultural period and its values, Which Oscar Wilde criticizes with great Wit and irony in The Importance of Being Earnest.
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.
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.
The author and main British writer of colonial times that wrote the poem “The White Man’s Burden”.
What is the original title Woolf was going to give to the novel and later changed to Mrs. Dalloway.
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?.
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.
The complete name of the author of A Passage to India.
Name two War poets who were critical to WWI nationalist enthusiasm and social support for soldiers.
A memorable female character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest; she is the type of an aristocratic English lady.
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 title of one of the most popular autobiographies of World War 1, written by a female author; it captured the collective mood of the members of a “10st generation” whose lives were truncated or determined by the conflict.
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.
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.
In David Lodge’s words, a type of thought and speech presentation “in which the grammatical subject is an T, and we [the readers], as it were, overhear the character verbalising his or her thoughts as they occur”.
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.
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.
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).
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”.
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.
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.
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.
The setting of the crucial final scene/episode in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway (be as specific as possible).
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A character in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India who comes to India to marry Mrs Moore’s son.
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.”.
British woman Classicist and social anthropologist who contributed to the matriarchal discourse initiated by Johann Bachofen in the 1860s.
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.
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—.
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’.
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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;.
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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.
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 Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One.
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.
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 boots
Of tired, outstripped Five—Nines that dropped behind.".
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.
Name of Paul’s parents in D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.
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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.
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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 ‘They’ a poem that transforms horror into satirical laughter through a masterful use of direct speech technique.
An intellectual and artistic group E. M. Foster belonged to.
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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.
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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Title of a play studied in the course that mocks and challenges middle—class values such as convention, respectability and, even, the very notion of art.
Term coined in 1894 to refer to those middle—upper class women who had profited from the educational and vocational opportunities won by the pioneer feminists of the sixties (1860s).
Identify the author and title of the literary work this quote belongs to: “We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”.
Name of the actual place that serves as background setting for Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse although it is actually placed in the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
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The echo in a Marabar cave is entirely devoid of distinction. Whatever is said, the same monotonous noise replies, and quivers up and down the walls until it is absorbed into the roof ‘Bourn’ is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or 'bouourn´, or 'ou-boum,'-utterly dull.
Name of a group of intellectuals that included John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, Desmond MacCarthy, Lytton Strachey, to name
but a few.
The American poet from whose work E. M. Forster took the title of his last novel.
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.
Title of D.H. Lawrence’s most controversial novel. It can be considered the first serious work of literature to explore human sexuality in explicit detail. It was banned for over 30 years both in England and in the United States.
A phrase that has come to designate the feelings of horror and frustration associated with the soldiers’ experience of WWI, as opposed. to patriotic euphoria at the Home Front; these feelings are an essential element in Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est.’.
A literary term denoting a 'development novel' or novel that traces the development and growth of the main character (normally from the Childhood to the adulthood of a character that becomes an artist).
Two female characters (two young girls) in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, representing urbane sophistication and (seemingly) naive forwardness.
Title of the novel where the City (probably Brussels), is referred to as a “Whited sepulchre”.
A French term mostly use for the new artistic movements born at the end of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. It refers, normally, to an artistic movement with such newness in its proposals that is considered ahead of its time but mostly an opener of new ideas and ways for artistic expression.
Novel that inaugurates Lawrence’s first phase. This phase can be considered as the autobiographical phase. In the novel Lawrence presents the theme that will dominate his later works: The war between men and women.
Author of De Profundis, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Ballad of Reading Gaol among other literary works.
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About this time the notorious Hell Row, which through growing old had acquired an evil reputation, was burned down, and much dirt was cleansed away. Carston, Waite & Co. found they had struck on a good thing, so, down the
valleys of the brooks from Selby and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until soon there were six pits working.
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Were there worlds beyond which they could never touch, or did all that is possible enter their consciousness? They could not tell…Perhaps life is a mystery, not a muddle… Perhaps the hundred Indias which fuss and squabble
so tiresomely are one, and the universe they mirror is one. They had not the apparatus for judging.
Author of the theory known as “Objective Correlative” he also wrote The Wasteland.
Fielding did not even want to [correct Aziz]; he had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood. As for Miss Quested, she accepted everything Aziz said as true verbally. In her ignorance, she regarded him as
“India,” and never surmised that his outlook was limited and his method inaccurate, and that no one is India.
Title of Virginia Woolf's first novel published in 1915.
Full name of the poet who wrote these lines and title of the poem they belong to:
When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you'll remember. For you need not so.
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Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns—and even convictions.
Name of the author of “The Tiredness of Rosabel” (1908).
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Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound´ring like a man in fire or lime —
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea. I saw him drowning.
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