English (002) MTTC
Upton Sinclair - Answer -American novelist, journalist and essayist; "The Jungle" - attacked and exposed
abuses in the Chicago meat packing industry - instrumental in forcing the passage of the Pure Food and
Drug Act; "King Coal", "Boston"; A "muckracker"
Muckracker - Answer -A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived immoral
conduct in business and government
Johan Strindberg - Answer -Swedish novelist, playwright, essayist and short-fiction writer; "The Red
Room" - bohemian life in Sweden; Blending realism and naturalism together in a unique manner; "The
Father", "Miss Julie"; later works turned to symbolism mixed with expressionism for "Ghost Sonata",
"The Great Highway" - autobiographical plays; An unhappy childhood followed by 3 failed marriages
influenced his work
Ford Madox Ford (Ford Hermann Hueffer) - Answer -English novelist and critic; "The Good Solider"
narrates an unhappy marriage in English upper class; BFF's with Joesph Conrad - Collaborated two
novels "The Inheritors" and "Romance", "Parade's End" - a trilogy of novels set in America and Europe;
Fought in France in World War I
Gertrude Stein - Answer -American poet, essayist, novelist and short-story writer; "Three Lives" - a novel
of working class women; "Tender Objects, Food, and Rooms" her poetry collection; "The Autobiography
of Alice B. Toklas" her autobiography (Alice B. Toklas was her secretary and partner); BFF's with Picasso,
Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford; Flamboyant figure in Paris famous for her acid tongue and wit
,Rabindranath Tagore - Answer -Indian poet, playwright, novelist, short-fiction writer and songwriter;
Best known for his spiritual poetry written in Bengali - 1st collection was "The ideal One"; Noted for his
lyrical, spiritual poetry; "Song Offerings" - Won a Novel Prize in Literature (1911); "The Hungry Stones",
"Broken Ties" - Stories of village Begal life
D.H. Lawrence - Answer -English novelist, poet, essayist and short-fiction writer; "Sons and Lovers", "The
Rainbow", "Women in Love", "Lady Chatterly's Lover" - banned in England for 30 yrs; Books focused on
love, class, social standing and sexuality; The intensity to his work and life that sometimes scandalized
peers
George Bernard Shaw - Answer -British playwright and critic; Published his collection of dramas in "Plays
Pleasant and Unpleasant" - included some of his best work including his critical prefaces; "Caesar and
Cleopatra", "Major Barbara", "Pygmalion", "St. Joan"; Awarded the Nobel prize in Literature (1925);
Chose controversial topics for his drams, stressing realistic social problems - satirized social class and
gender discrimination with a light touch that made its points w/o anger
Marcel Proust - Answer -French novelist; "Remembrance of Things Past" - epic seven-part masterpiece
that examines the existential problem of finding meaning and value in the maelstrom of life; uses the
device of interior monologue - views the transient nature of life and the flux of consciousness using
observation of detail
Thomas Sterns Eliot - Answer -American poet, playwright and critic; "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock", "The Waste Land" - Struggled with his own despair at the futility of life and the spiritual
barrenness of modern life, he addressed these themes in "The Waste Land"; "Murder in the Cathedral",
"The Cocktail Party" - dramas
Robert Frost - Answer -American poet; Master of technical aspects of poetry while remaining true to his
New England heritage; "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Road Not Taken", "West
Running Brook", "A Witness Tree", "In the Clearing"; Received the Pulitzer Prize 4 times; Read "The Gift
Outright" at the inaugural of John Kennedy in 1961
Frantz Kafka - Answer -Prague born and German writing novelist and short-story writer; Uses powerful
symbolism; Addresses anxieties and chaos of modern society; "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal
Colony", "The Hunger Artist"; Instructed his executor and literary agent, Max Brod, to destroy his work
after his death but Brod instead published them - "The Trial", "The Castle", "Amerika"; Fiction was dark,
wounding, arresting and sometimes painful
,James Joyce - Answer -Irish novelist and short-story writer; Developed a style rich in innovative literary
technique and creative language; "The Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" - novels and
dramas "Exiles" and "Ulysses"; "Finnegan's Wake" - novel
Edna St. Vinceny Millay - Answer -American poet; Won a poetry contest in 1902 for "Renascence", Won
the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry "The Ballad of the Harp-weaver"; "A Few Twigs from Thistles", "Fatal
Interview", "Wine From These Grapes", "Conversation at Midnight", "Make the Bright Arrows",
"Collected Poems"
Virginia Woolf (Adele Virginia Stephen) - Answer -English novelist, short-fiction writer, essayist, critic;
One of the most creative and influential writers of the 20th century; "Jacobs Room" using her steam of
consciousness method of interior monologues to develop an absent character; "Mrs. Dalloway", "To This
Lighthouse", "The Waves"; Her families home was the center of the group of authors, artists and
thinkers known as the Bloomsbury Group; Committed suicide by drowning
Sprung rhythm - Answer -Attempts to duplicate human speech - developed by Gerald Manley Hopkins
Gerald Manley Hopkins - Answer -English poet; "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "The Windhover",
"Pied Beauty", "God's Grandeur" and "Carrion Comfort"; Poems were written in a period of personal
depression and religious doubt; He developed a style called "sprung rhythm
Willa Cather - Answer -American novelist, short-story writer and essayist; "Oh Pioneers" which narrated
the story of an immigrant family's struggle in the new world; "My Antonia" a story of a woman's struggle
and eventual triumph on the prairie; Won Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for "One of Ours"; "Death Comes for the
Archbishop" - Pioneering spirit in America; Other writing examines the topics of art, loss and
disillusionment; "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" - a novel on the American Civil War
Wilfred Owen - Answer -English poet; Best known as a scathing indictment against war based on his
experiences in France during World War I; His language is starkly realistic in depicting the horrors of war;
"Poems" include "Strange Meeting", "Anthem for Doomed Youth" - Owen's verse was used in Benjamin
Britten's "War Requiem"
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp - Answer -New Zealand short-story writer; "In a German Pension",
"Bliss", "The Garden Party and Other Stories", "Prelude"; Her style and strength was the complex and
subtle development of her characters, probing their psychological depths
, Dame Agatha Christie - Answer -English novelist and playwright; Wrote over 80 detective novels;
Created Hercules Poirot and Miss Jane Marple; "The Mousetrap" - the longest running play in the history
of drama
Edward Estlin Cummings (E.E. Cummings) - Answer -American poet and novelist; Noted for his unique
writing style, using unconventional punctuation and typography, innovative language and imagery; "The
Enormous Room"; His verse is often light and joyful but contains a great depth of irony and complex
feelings; "Tulips and Chimney's", "50 Poems", "Ninety-Five Poems", "73 Poems"
Rene' Maria Rilke - Answer -German poet; Themes of life and death; Explore man's relationship to the
Divine and particularly humanity's perception of the universal; "The Book of Images", "Duino Elegies",
"Sonnets to Orpheus" and "New Plans"
Edward Morgan Forster - Answer -English novelist, essayist and critic; "A Room With a View", "Howard's
End", "The Longest Journey" and "Where Angels Fear To Tread" - Addressed subjects such as social
justice, materialism and spirituality and dissolution of the English upper classes; His masterpiece "A
Passage to India" was inspired by several visits to India and Fosters service in Egypt in WWI
Thomas Mann - Answer -German novelist and essayist; Focused on art and the struggle of the artist to
flourish in European society; "Buddenbrooks", "Death in Venice", "The Magic Mountain", "Dr Faustus",
"Joesph and His Brothers" ; Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929
Ezra Pound - Answer -American poet, critic and editor; "The Cantos"; His influence as a critic was
formidable - he fostered the work of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot;
Important imagist, advocating the use of free meter, and the extravagant use of image; Associated with
Mussolini and his fascist regime, Pound was arrested for treasonable propganda
William Butler Yeats - Answer -Irish poet and playwright; "The Countess Cathleen", "The Land of Heart's
Desire", "Cathleen in Houlihan"; Spare, realistic style with much symbolism - "Easter 1916" - celebrating
the Easter rising in Dublin - "The Second Coming"; Nobel Prize in Literature (1923); In love with Maud
Gonne but it was unrequited; Founder of Abbey theatre
William Faulkner - Answer -American novelist and short-story writer; Wrote almost solely about
southern history in his fiction; "Sartoris", "The Sound and The Fury", "As I Lay Dying", "Absalom,
"Absolom", "Sanctuary", "Go Down, Moses"; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Won two Pulitzer Prizes;
Recurring themes include Southern aristocracy's attempt to survive in the modern world, racial
inequality in the South and burdens of slavery carried by his characters