GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of British Prose After 1925
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Example Question #55 : Contexts Of British Prose
During what war is Atonement set?
The Jacobite uprising
The War of Austrian Succession
World War I
The Revolutionary War
World War II
World War II
Ian McEwan's Atonement is set partly in 1935 and partly in present-day England, but a significant portion of the action occurs during World War II in both France and England.
Example Question #56 : Contexts Of British Prose
Who is the author of Brideshead Revisited?
Ian McEwan
Kingsley Amis
D.H. Lawrence
Evelyn Waugh
Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited (1945) is Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel and the work he considered his magnum opus.
Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim (1954), Graham Greene wrote The Third Man (1950), Ian McEwan wrote Solar (2010), and D.H Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers (1913).
Example Question #476 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
During what decade is Brideshead Revisited mainly set?
1860s
1840s
1920s
1900s
1880s
1920s
Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945) begins in the 1920s in Britain and concludes in the late 1940s, shortly after the end of World War II.
Example Question #57 : Contexts Of British Prose
Who is the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Jeanette Winterson
Hilary Mantel
Angela Carter
Zadie Smith
A.S. Byatt
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) is Jeanette Winterson’s acclaimed first novel. It is a coming of age story about an adopted lesbian girl in a Pentecostal community in England and contains themes of sexuality and gender normativity as well as elements of autobiography.
Angela Carter wrote Love (1971), Hilary Mantel wrote Wolf Hall (2009), Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000), and A.S Byatt wrote The Shadow of the Sun (1964).
Example Question #478 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
During what decade was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit published?
1960s
1950s
1970s
1990s
1980s
1980s
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and won a Whitbread Award for a First Novel the same year.
Example Question #61 : Contexts Of British Prose
What genre of novel is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
magic realism
mythopoeia
suspense
roman à clef
bildungsroman
bildungsroman
Another term for a coming-of-age novel is a bildungsroman. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) concerns the coming-of-age of its lesbian protagonist, Jeanette.
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