GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of World Prose After 1925
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Example Question #11 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Who is the author of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage?
Alice Munro
Ursula K. Le Guin
Carol Shields
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jeanette Winterson
Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) is Alice Munro’s tenth collection of short stories.
Ursula K. LeGuin wrote The Dispossessed (1974), Carol Shields wrote The Stone Diaries (1993), Jeanette Winterson wrote Sexing the Cherry (1989), and Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables (1908).
Example Question #12 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
To what genre do the stories of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage belong?
Realism
Magic Realism
Science Fiction
Mystery
Fantasy
Realism
Munro’s fiction is characterized first and foremost by a strong realist bent, innovative chronological structures and a spare, unadorned prose style.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage was published in 2001.
Example Question #593 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
During which decade was Love in the Time of Cholera published?
1950s
1990s
1970s
1980s
1960s
1980s
Love in the Time of Cholera was first published in Spanish in 1985 and in English in 1988.
Example Question #594 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What country is the author of Independent People from?
Sweden
Iceland
Denmark
Norway
Finland
Iceland
Halldór Laxness is Icelandic – the only Icelandic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Example Question #181 : Contexts Of Prose
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Independent People?
Iceland’s Bell
World Light
The Fish Can Sing
Finn Family Moomintroll
Under the Glacier
Finn Family Moomintroll
Finn Family Moomintroll is a 1948 children’s book by Tove Jansson, the creator of the beloved Moomin creatures. The Fish Can Sing (1957), World Light (1969), Iceland’s Bell (1943), and Under the Glacier (1972) are all by Laxness.
Example Question #182 : Contexts Of Prose
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Love in the Time of Cholera?
“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Like Water For Chocolate
Of Love and Other Demons
Like Water For Chocolate
Like Water For Chocolate is a 1989 novel by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. Of Love and Other Demons was published in 1994, One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967, Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published in 1981, Love in the Time of Cholera was published in 1985, and “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” was published in 1955 – all by Gabriel García Márquez.
Example Question #183 : Contexts Of Prose
To which of the following genres does Love in the Time of Cholera belong?
Surrealism
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Dadaism
Magical Realism
Gabriel García Márquez is known primarily as a magical realist writer, and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), one of his most famous novels, is no exception to this blend of everyday realism and unexplained magical events.
Example Question #184 : Contexts Of Prose
Who is the author of Independent People?
Stieg Larsson
Tove Jansson
Henrik Ibsen
Halldór Laxness
Karl Ove Knausgård
Halldór Laxness
The poet, playwright, and fiction writer Halldór Laxness (née Halldór Guðjónsson) wrote the novel Independent People (1934), a two-volume work about the difficult lives of impoverished Icelandic farmers in the early 1900s.
Tove Jansson wrote Kometjakten (Comet in Moominland) (1946), Stieg Larsson wrote Män som hatar kvinnor (literally translated as "Men Who Hate Women," published in English under the title The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) (2005), Karl Ove Knausgård wrote Min Kamp (My Struggle) (2009-2011), and Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt (1867).
Example Question #603 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
During what decade was Independent People published?
1910s
1900s
1930s
1890s
1920s
1930s
Halldór Laxness published Independent People in two parts in 1934 and 1935.
Example Question #185 : Contexts Of Prose
Who is the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?
Haruki Murakami
Banana Yoshimoto
Yu Hua
Ha Jin
David Mitchell
Haruki Murakami
Published in 1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is Haruki Murakami’s eighth novel.
Ha Jin wrote In the Pond (1998), David Mitchell wrote Cloud Atlas (2004), Banana Yoshimoto wrote Hardboiled & Hard Luck (1999), and Yu Hua wrote Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (1995).
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