Category: Cultural and Literary in Modernity

A. It is a philosophical term which means “imitation” or “mimicry.”
B. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning “otherness.”
C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.
D. A and C only

A. James Joyce
B. Vladimir Nabokov
C. T.S. Eliot
D. Joseph Conrad

A. The British East India Company was originally a group of London businessmen engaged in importing spices from South Asia.
B. The British East India Company first entered South Asia as importers of British Tea.
C. The British East India Company was essentially a covert British army.
D. Both A and B

A. Symbolism began as a French literary movement in the late 19th century.
B. Paul Gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting.
C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world.
D. Both A and B

A. Salvador Dalí
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Juan Miró
D. Man Ray

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

A. The Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.
B. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.
C. The Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.
D. B and C only

A. Nature
B. Christianity
C. Pastoral landscapes
D. World War II

A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”

A. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production
B. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity
C. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture
D. All of the above