Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?

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What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?

A. regional dialect and political critique B. religious symbolism and society comedy C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe...

Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?

A. Salman Rushdie B. Joseph Conrad C. Rabindranath Tagore D. John Ruskin...

Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new “mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method” and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about “making the modern world possible for art” ?

A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake D. James Joyce’s Ulysses...

What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

A. its intellectual complexity B. its union of thought and passion C. its uncompromising engagement with politics D. A and B...

What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship ?

A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968 B. the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond C. the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980...