What was Colette’s real name?
Colette, the French author of the novel Cheri (1920) was named Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette.
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To whose funeral in 1885 did Tennyson send a wreath inscribed “To the World’s Greatest Poet”?
The poet laureate of England Tennyson sent the wreath to Victor Hugo’s funeral. The author of the novel Les Miserables (1862) was also a great lyric poet. His poetic works included Contemplations (1856).
What is the epigraph for Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo?
The epigraph for Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is “So foul a sky clears not without a storm” (Shakespeare).
In what order did Sophocles write his three Theban tragedies?
Antigone was produced on stage first (441 B.C.), followed by Oedipus the King (c. 426 B.C.) and Oedipus at Colonus (first produced after the author’s death in 405 B.C.). However, the story recounted by the plays follows a different order: Oedipus the King first; Oedipus at Colonus second; Antigone last.
What is “logocentrism”?
Logocentrism is the habit of assigning truth to words. Deconstructionists seek to combat logocentrism by deconstructing, or taking apart, texts: exposing hidden presuppositions; revealing texts as essentially indeterminate and unreadable.
What Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel begins, “It was a dark and stormy night”?
Paul Clifford (1830) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel begins, “It was a dark and stormy night”. It is also the opening line of numerous novels by Snoopy.
Who were the Fugitives and Agrarians?
The Fugitives and Agrarians were a group of writers associated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville in the 1920s and 1930s. The most famous of the group were Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.