English (002) MTTC Questions and Answers 2023

English (002) MTTC Questions and Answers 2023 Upton Sinclair 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 A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived immoral conduct in business and government Johan Strindberg 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 Attempts to duplicate human speech - developed by Gerald Manley Hopkins Gerald Manley Hopkins 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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