What is “Mimesis” ?

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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....

Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________’s work?

A. Marx B. Freud C. Darwin D. Aristotle...

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...

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

A. His safe return home B. The defeat of the Germans C. His death and escape from suffering. D. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier...