What was the name of Holden Caulfield’s roommate in The Catcher in the Rye (1951)?
Stradlater was the rich and conceited roommate of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
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Who is known as the “poet of the American Revolution”?
Philip Freneau (1752-1832), whose poems include “American Liberty” (1775) and “The Indian Burying Ground” (1788), is known as the “poet of the American Revolution”. He was a favorite of Thomas JefferÂson’s.
What poem is the source of the title of Robert Penn Warren’s World Enough and Time (1950)?
Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” (1681) is the source of the title of Robert Penn Warren’s World Enough and Time.
Who was referred to in Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all?
These lines from Section 27, Stanza 4 of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam lament the loss of Tennyson’s close friend Arthur Hallam, who died at twenty-two.
What is the name of the playboy in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907)?
The name of the playboy in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World is Christy Mahon. He’s a young fugitive who thinks he has killed his domineering father and is therefore lionized by villagers, especially women.
Who created Nancy Drew?
Edward Stratemeyer created Nancy Drew, under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The prolific author died in 1930.
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.