As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor ?

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What is “Imagism” ?

A. A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images B. An attempt to use the “exact word” instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry C. A and B only D. B and C only...

According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ?

A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever” B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user C. “A confession and a complaint” D. All of the above...

What is the “Post-Modern” practice of “Deconstructionism” ?

A. An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth B. An assault on the sexual mores of the Victorian Age C. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime D. All of the above...

What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?

A. Joyce’s “The Dead” B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man” C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House” D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel”...

According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.” B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon. C. All of the … According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”Read More...