Category: Cultural and Literary in Modernity

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

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

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

A. A way of questioning Victorian moral conceptions
B. A musical invention of the modern age that allows for experimentation of form
C. An example of subjective artistic expression
D. All of the above

A. Ibo
B. Russian
C. Irish
D. Indian

A. “Something that replaces reality with its representation”
B. “A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact”
C. “An exact imitation of the material world”
D. “A basic affirmation of everyday reality”

A. Stroller, idler, walker
B. An inhabitant of a rural village
C. A religious believer
D. Both A and B

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 poetic realism.

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 only

A. Arundhati Roy
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Seamus Heaney
D. Vladimir Nabokov