Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “To Victory” is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?

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Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?

A. Beckett’s work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition. B. Beckett’s play explores how language helps to form one’s notion of self. C. Beckett’s work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human desires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize. D. … Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?Read More...

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic and literary movement ?

A. Naturalism is a search for scientific certainty. B. Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable and objective. C. Naturalism depicts the more “animalistic” tendencies of humans. D. Naturalism considers the author or artist to be like a scientist....

Why does the “Flâneur” begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?

A. Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris B. Because of the advent of arcade projects C. Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape D. Because they were threatened by police with jail...

Which of the following is true of Ezra Pound’s “Canto XIV” ?

A. It contains almost hellish imagery, such as: “Melting like dirty wax,/decayed candles, the bums sinking lower,/faces submerged under hams.” B. It explores the theme of the perversion of language. C. It deeply identifies with Dante’s “Inferno” in terms of tone and thick description. D. All of the above...

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...