Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” is a novel characterized by which of the following descriptions ?

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Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?

A. The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London. B. The group consisted of survivors of World War II. C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf. D. A and C only...

Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” ?

A. Some academic scholars suggest that “TheWasteland” is an extrapolation of the search for the Holy Grail. B. “The Wasteland” is an excellent example of modernist symbolism. C. Eliot’s poem takes great pains to illustrate the breakdown of stable meaning in the modern world. D. “The Wasteland” is often used as an excellent example of … Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” ?Read More...

The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations ?

A. The shift from agriculturally-based to industrial societies in the West B. The decline of traditional religious beliefs in Europe C. The rise of traditional social identities and the decline of personal identity D. Both A and B...

The term “Lost Generation” can be applied to which of the following groups ?

A. A group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller B. A group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I C. Any American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I D. A and B … The term “Lost Generation” can be applied to which of the following groups ?Read More...

According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” Roland Barthes, in his work “The Death of the Author,” argues which of the following points ?

A. “The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.” B. “Once the Author is gone, the claim to “decipher” a text is quite simple.” C. “A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.” D. Both A and B...