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| "She came out of the rigid agrarian world of Southern Rhodesia which readily makes story-tellers of its exiled children. What British Africa gave her, besides those images of a sky so empty and a society so inflexible as to make the slightest tremorin either worth remarking upon, was a way of perceiving hte rest of her life: for a long time should not interpret all she saw in terms of 'injustice,' not merely the injustice of White to Black, of colonizer to colonized, but the more general injustices and particularly of sex." This writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 and was the oldest person ever to win the award. |
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| __________ was greatly interested in ‘life with the lid on’ and what happened when the lid came off. Her work deals with innocence and betrayal and the secrets that lie beneath the veneer of respectability. Her style is highly wrought and owes much to Henry James. She was also influenced by the techniques of film. Place has a central role in her work. Few have evoked London in wartime as well as she did. She may have suffered from stangury in 1912-1920. |
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Which writer is associated with the following phrases? "visionary gleams," "Tranquilly recollecting," and "blobs of time" |
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| This author wrote a series of stories about Simple, a street-smar, amused and amusing, sad and scarred--though never less than resilient and irrepressible--resident of Harlem. |
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| _______'s poem "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" is written in what poetric form? |
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Shelley wrote the poem. It's written in Spenserian stanzas. |
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Here was __________, in the year 1621, unanimously chosen the governor of the plantation (succeeding John Carver): the difficulties whereof were such, that if he had not been a person of more than ordinary piety, wisdom and courage, he must have sunk under them. He had, with laudable industry, been laying up a treasure of exerpiences and he had now occasion to use it. The "plantation" referred to was_________ |
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| This author identified the audience of all her writing as "a people who think God is dead." She wrote Wise Blood. |
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| In 1901 she built The Mount, her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, which survives today as the supreme example of her design principles. There, ________ wrote several of her novels, including The House of Mirth (1905), the first of many chronicles of the true nature of old New York, and entertained the cream of American literary society, including her close friend, the novelist Henry James. |
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| The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. |
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| Was Booker T. Washington or WEB DuBois ever a slave? |
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| Booker T. Washington was, but was freed as a child. These two were contemporaries. |
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| Phillis Wheatley learned to read and write in what city? |
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| Interestingly enough, Kyd took as his model not the ancient Greeks, but the Roman __________, whose blood-soaked tales of the downfalls of royal families proved fascinating to the Elizabethan mind. |
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| __________ is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his hometown, and he set much of his fiction there. His works exhibit a mix of high and low culture, and his fictional characters are also a potent mix of intellectual dreamers and street-smart confidence men. |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett was an American fiction writer, best known for her local color works set in or near __________ which in her day was a declining seaport. |
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