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| Rabbit or Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom Berkeley - | 20 Literature -- American This literary character's death is brought about by his loyalty to Cassy and Emmeline. An intensely Christian man, he had earlier been separated from his wife Chloe by Haley, and is horrified by the brutalities endured by his |
| Uncle Tom Chicago - | 7 Literature -- American The female protagonist of this poem is first seen singing the 100th Psalm. The title character says he is not afraid of bullets or cannons, but admits "That of a thundering 'No!' point-blank from the mouth of a woman, / That I |
| The Courtship of Miles Standish Florida Atlantic - | 8 Literature -- American The death of this poet's second wife Frances Appleton prevented him from working for several years, but he eventually completed the religious poem "Christus". Renowned for his skill with languages, the early romanticism of suc |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Florida Atlantic - | 22 Literature -- American As a book editor in the 1960s, this graduate of Howard University worked on the writings of Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, and several other black female writers. During this period, she wrote her first novel, about the expe |
| Toni Morrison (or Chloe Anthony Wofford) Florida - | 2 Literature -- American After the failure of her father's utopian community Fruitlands this author began supporting her family by writing Gothic works like "Pauline's Passion and Punishment" and "Perilous Play" under the pseudonym A.N. Barnard.. Auth |
| Louise May Alcott Florida - | 11 Literature -- American The title of this book comes from its introductory piece, which describes the author's farmhouse Arrowhead. The character Bannadonna figures promenantly in the second story, "The Bell Tower", which is followed by The Lightnin |
| The Piazza Tales Florida - | 22 Literature -- American Poems by this author include Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower, and One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro. Author of "Pictures of the Gone World", he was the foun |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti Kentucky - | 9 Literature -- American The protagonist of this novel was raised by her uncle, from whom she inherited a fortune, but she was actually the daughter of the once-powerful businessman Moodie. A beautiful magazine writer and feminist, the reader is told |
| The Blithedale Romance Kentucky - | 20 Literature -- American One major character in this novel is a Mississipian practicing law in New York while writing tracts against "modern times". In opposition to this character is his cousin, an feminist activist. They both vye for the attentions |
| The Bostonians Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| John Galsworthy Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| Edgar Allan Poe Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| C. Auguste Dupin Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| William Cullen Bryant Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Cat's Cradle Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Sister Carrie Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| James T. Ferrell Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Benjy Compson or Benjamin Compson Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Naked Lunch Kelly McKenzie ( | 5) - |
| The Hamlet Kelly McKenzie ( | 5) - |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop Michigan A and Cornell - | 6 Literature -- American The locale of this story and its "flush times" become news in Red Dog after the pony expressman leaves. Many of the tough residents attribute the changes that occur at the site to the arrival of the title character, whose 'ras |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp Michigan A and Cornell - | 23 Literature -- American It ends with a separate section portraying seven black men and five white men working in a chain gang by the Forks Falls highway. Denizens of the nameless Georgia town include the Rainey twins, malaria victim Merlie Ryan, an |
| The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Michigan B - | 1 Literature -- American He collaborated with Roy DeCarava on a pictorial essay which was published posthumously as The Sweet Flypaper of Life. He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the picaresque adventures of Sandy Rodgers entitled Not Withou |
| Langston Hughes Michigan B - | 16 Literature -- American The title character is wooed via trips to the theater to see plays in which a girl is skirted away from a palatial home and a cruel guardian by a hero with "beautiful sentiments." The phrase "gone to the devil" is repeated se |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Stanford - | 1 Literature -- American The climax of this novel occurs on the narrator's thirtieth birthday, when he declares "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." Descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, the narrator had come east to learn th |
| The Great Gatsby Stanford - | 20 Literature -- American This poem's eleventh section contains the famous episode of the "twenty-ninth bather," who watches twenty-eight men bathing in the ocean and wishes she could join them unobserved. The poet takes on the speaker's voice in the |
| Song of Myself Texas A&M - | 1 Literature -- American 2,400 square miles in area, this region takes its name from the Chickasaw for "water flowing slow through the flatland, " and is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River and on the south by its namesake. Jefferson is the |
| Yonknapatawpha County Texas A&M - | 20 Literature -- American This novelist depicted a talented writer based on Thomas Wolfe in Youngblood Hawke, and wrote of the founding of Israel in The Hope and The Glory. An aspiring New York actress is the focus of Marjorie Morningstar, while the H |
| Herman Wouk South Carolina and Texas A&M - | 19 Literature -- American This author first gained acclaim for early novels line "The Victim" and "Dangling Man", while recent novels include "The Dean's December" and "The Theft". Known for drawing attention to the modern moral and social crises expe |
| Saul Bellow Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| Daddy 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley and South Carolina - | 8 Literature -- American This author of the plays "The Confidential Clerk" and "The Elder Statesman" wrote fan letters to Groucho Marx and kept a picture of him on his mantle beside Yeats and Paul Valery. His second volume of poetry, "Ara vos prec", |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley and South Carolina - | 15 Literature -- American Early in his life, he worships the Indian Gray Beaver as a god, but is soon separated from his mother Kiche and ends up under the control of the coward Beauty Smith, who turns him into a professional fighter. Living under the |
| White Fang 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 19 Literature -- American His trip to Russia inspired the non-fiction work "All-Out on the Road to Smolensk" and the novel "All Night Long". He began writing as early as 1928, first publishing two novellas, "The Bastard" and "Poor Fool". He gained som |
| Erskine Caldwell 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 15 Literature -- American The title characters are described as having "dried voices when (they) whisper", uttering sounds as "quiet and meaningless as rat's feet over broken glass". Its fifth canto begins with a parody of "Here we go round the mulber |
| The Hollow Men 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida State A - | 3 Literature -- American Characters encountered in this novel include Roland Major, Denver D. Doll, and Ed Dunkel. Describing the narrator's adventures in San Francisco with Remi Boncoeur, his trip to Mexico with Stan Shepard, and his time in New Orle |
| On the Road 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida State A - | 17 Literature -- American In the climactic part of this play, Dowson, Swinburne and Baudelaire are all drunkenly quoted at length, while the sound of foghorns provides the primary metaphor of the last act. Off-stage characters include the cook Bridget |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois and Yale - | 8 Literature -- American The author of the folk history Twelve Million Black Voices and the essay "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow", his is considered to have written the first American existential novel with The Outsider, written after he moved to Pari |
| Richard Wright 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois and Yale - | 20 Literature -- American In 1954 she said "A woman can be both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle", which provides a good description of her recurring character Emma McChesney, as well as the writer Dawn O'Hara, the |
| Edna Ferber 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 18 Literature -- American At the end of this book the narrator's friend Carl gets him a job at a newspaper and he helps his friend Fillmore escape a suffocating marriage. At one point he does odd jobs for the eccentric Indian pearl salesman Mr. Nanant |
| Tropic of Cancer 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 6 Literature -- American The protagonist of this novel loses interest with her internship at a magazine, finds herself unable to lose her virginity to a UN interpreter, is nearly raped on a blind date, and discovers she has been rejected for a summer |
| The Bell Jar 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland - | 18 Literature -- American It opens with Almustafa about to board a boat from Orphalese, the city where he has lived for 12 years, but he is stopped by the townspeople. In chaptesr including "Love", "Marriage", "Grieving", "Friendship", "Prayer", and |
| The Prophet 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| The Great Gatsby 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| Edith Wharton 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Death of a Salesman 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Eugene O'Neill 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Alice B. Toklas 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| The Yellow Wallpaper 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 5) - |
| The Awakening 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 1 Literature -- American This poet's first published poem was a reminiscence about an elderly black man entitled "Negro Harry", while his first short-story, "Death in the School-Room", was based on his Long Island teaching experience. His only novel, |
| Walt Whitman 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 10 Literature -- American The first stanza of this poem describes the title object as a "venturous bark that flings on the sweet summer wind its purpled wings", while the fourth stanza expresses thanks for the "heavenly message" brought by it. Describ |
| The Chambered Nautilus 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Stanford - | 1 Literature -- American The main character of this novel is encouraged to "watch out fer ol' number one" by The Tattered Man, and is called a "wild cat" by Lieutenant Hasbrouck, who gets shot in the hand and drives a fleeing soldier back into the ran |
| The Red Badge of Courage 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Stanford - | 14 Literature -- American He gained fame as a translator with his Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, while works of nonfiction include 1942's Bombs Away and the Robert Capa collaboration A Russian Journal. He is better known for his novels, l |
| John Steinbeck 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley - | 13 Literature -- American The son of Jewish and Irish vaudeville performers, he worked for British Intelligence during World War II, and eloped from his lavish New York wedding for an early honeymoon in Florida with his wife Muriel, who he soon begins |
| Seymour Glass 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley - | 21 Literature -- American The titular event turns out to be a hanging rather than the shooting the reader is led to believe it is at one point. At various times, the protagonist is described as walking down a long road at night under a sky filled with |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Central Florida - | 17 Literature -- American Throughout this novel, the characters are protected from harm by the belief in the insanity of the eccentric singing master David Gamut. Major Heyward disguises himself as a French doctor to aid the rescue of those captured b |
| The Last of the Mohicans: A Tale of 1757 | |
| 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Central Florida - | 21 Literature -- American The first edition says that it contains a "compleat description of the four elements, conflitations (sic), ages of man and seasons of the year." Including works like "In Honor of That High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth |
| The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 3 Literature -- American The narrative of this short story is presented as having been published in La Revue Anti-Aristocratique by a certain Monsieur de l'AubƩpine, an alter ego of the true author. The lustful old dame Lisabetta aids the protagonist |
| Rappaccini's Daughter 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Emory - | 1 Literature -- American He wrote of a virus plague, an intergalactic conspiracy, and pirates in his 1981 work Cities of the Red Night. With the painter Brion Gysin, he developed a "cut-up" method by which several random texts are blended into one hyb |
| William S. Burroughs 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Emory - | 19 Literature -- American At one point, one of the characters of this story claims to be en route to consult a man named Luchesi, who the other main character insists is ignorant and will provide no insight concerning the title object. Having arranged |
| The Cask of Amontillado 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Miscellaneous - | 3 Literature -- American This author died in bed in 1950 while reading a comic book, having earlier served as the oldest war correspondent covering the South Pacific during WWII. His later works were lackluster pulp and science fiction writings like T |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida - | 19 Literature -- American The opening chapter of this novel closes with the narrator dreaming that he and his father are at a circus where his father refuses to laugh at the clowns. The narrator gets a scholarship after giving a speech to thunderous |
| Invisible Man 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 18 Literature -- American After an episode in which the protagonist of this novel imagines a voice telling her she'll marry a blind man, she is visited by George Bakewell, but dismisses him because he considers her a curiosity. Miss Ockenden spies on |
| The Bell Jar 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 1 Literature -- American This poem's third section contains a description of the "Unreal City", where the Smyrna merchant Mr. Eugenides asks the poet to lunch. Other sections describe a reading of tarot cards by Madame Sosostris and the drowning of P |
| "The Waste Land" 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 11 Literature -- American Late works by this author include a collection of short pieces called Wolfert's Roost, a five-volume life of George Washington, a Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and a book on Mahomet and His Successors. Great hostility greeted Tal |
| Washington Irving 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| Joseph Heller 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Walter Mitty 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| The Gentleman from San Francisco 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Willa Cather 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Wallace Stevens 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| The Turn of the Screw 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 19 Literature -- American The patriarch of this novel's central family loses money in an attempt to ship ice-boxed lettuce to New York, but later his son takes advantage of a food shortage and saves the fortune with the help of Will Hamilton. Late in |
| East of Eden 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 6 Literature -- American A key moment in this story is the trip by the female protagonist to Madame Sofronie, where she acquires $20 to supplement her husband's income, which has recently been cut by $10 per week. Her husband Jim soon returns home aft |
| The Gift of the Magi 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 12 Literature -- American Early in this essay, the author claims that by placing undue emphasis on names and customs, society is a conspiracy against the manhood of its members, who should not be ashamed of their instincts, which are from God. He then |
| Self-Reliance 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 22 Literature -- American The second part of this collection includes "The Bell of Atri," "Lady Wentworth," and "Kambalu," and the third part includes such stories as "The Mother's Ghost," "Azreal," and the last tale, "The Rhyme of Sir Christopher." |
| Tales of a Wayside Inn 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M - | 12 Literature -- American He desires to be an engineer or a chemist, but is held back in part by his un-sellable farm in Starkfield. He sees his cat break a pickle dish while his wife is gone to visit a doctor in Bettsbridge, making it impossible to h |
| Ethan Frome 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Virginia - | 4 Literature -- American His prose poems exploring urban, bourgeois life were often written from the perspective of the flaneur, an idea elucidated in his essay The Painter of Modern Life. He got his start introducing the works of Poe to Europe throug |
| Charles Baudelaire 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Virginia - | 22 Literature -- American He was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force for being a suspected Communist, and later he said the experience helped him understand "the white sickness." He wrote an influential study called "Blues People," but created |
| Amiri Baraka (accept LeRoi Jones before said) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley B, Rutgers, and Chris Romero - | 3 Literature -- American Accompanied by an accordion played by Piney Woods, a group of people in this short story sing a song with the refrain, "I'm proud to live in the service of the Lord, and I'm bound to die in his Army." The grave of one of the |
| The Outcasts of Poker Flat 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley B, Rutgers, and Chris Romero - | 12 Literature -- American Because he couldn't bear to work as a janitor to pay his tuition, he dropped out of St. Olaf's College. After the war, he studied at Oxford in an attempt to get as far away from his impoverished North Dakota childhood. He r |
| Jay Gatsby or Great Gatsby or James Gatz 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley B, Rutgers, and Chris Romero - | 17 Literature -- American The protagonist of this novel is forever changed when he is told by a slave in the master's livery to go around to the back of the house to deliver a message. The novel depicts his ruthlessness in leaving his first wife and |
| Absalom, Absalom 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley B, Rutgers, and Chris Romero - | 23 Literature -- American Philip JosƩ Farmer wrote his biography Venus on the Half-shell. In a 1987 interview, his creator admitted that he was inspired by the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon. Mentioned in Jailbird, his son Leon narrates Ga |
| Kilgore Trout 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley C, Florida State B, and Alfred University - | 23 Literature -- American A magazine with his name was published by Lewis and Willis Clark from 1833-1865. As a scholar, his historical researches lay with men, and especially their wives, "rich in that legendary lore so invaluable to true history," |
| Diedrich Knickerbocker 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Carleton and Georgia Tech B - | 11 Literature -- American His second wife, Frances Appleton, died when her dress caught fire and he wrote the sonnet "The Cross of Snow" in her honor. He memorialized the oldest Jewish community in the U.S. with his "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" a |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A and Vanderbilt A - | 1 Literature -- American This poem is set on the winter solstice, "The darkest evening of the year," in a place that is "lovely, dark and deep." The only sound beside "the sweep/ Of easy wind and downy flake" is the sound of the harness bells, as the |
| Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 1 Literature -- American Scenes three through seven of this play are set in the forest at night, while scenes two and eight are set at dusk and dawn at the edge of the Great Forest. At the beginning an old woman is interrogated by a Cockney trader na |
| Emperor Jones 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 21 Literature -- American He wrote two novels, one about the "friends and acquaintances" of Sister Jane, the other a "story of Reconstruction" that depicts Gabriel Tolliver. His Mingo was the first volume in his series of sketches about the people of |
| Joel Chandler Harris 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Kentucky C - | 7 Literature -- American During the latter part of his life he received much criticism for organizing a club solely for schoolgirls, the Angelfish Club. His disastrous investment in the Paige typesetting machine was the end of a business career start |
| Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Kentucky C - | 17 Literature -- American For a six-year period the New York Times had a standing policy not to review any of his books because of the fallout from his novel The City and the Pillar, which had a homosexual protagonist. In the next decade, the1950s, h |
| Gore Vidal 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Cvijanovich - | 12 Literature -- American He was one of the founders of the Liberty Party and wrote the abolitionist track "Justice and Expediency." His first published book was Legends of New England and in his later life he turned to hymns writing nearly one hundr |
| John Greenleaf Whittier 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 12 Literature -- American He briefly associates with Fulton Bemis, Carrie Nork, and Minnie Sontag, a group he refers to as "the Bunch" and a group that he eventually finds not worthwhile. He learns of an affair between May Arnold and his best friend |
| George F. Babbitt (prompt on first name) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 21 Literature -- American Critical works of this writer include The Time of the Assassins, a study of Rimbaud, and To Paint is to Love Again, which features many of his own watercolors. But it was for more earthy works like Black Spring and Big Sur a |
| Henry Miller 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 1 Literature -- American His behavior reminds the narrator of how the provocation of Samuel Adams drove John Colt to commit murder, especially when he is caught one Sunday morning lodging in the narrator's office, where he has set up his "hermitage." |
| Bartleby the Scrivener 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by St. Thomas - | 12 Literature -- American Ian Fleming induced this writer to interview Lucky Luciano in Naples, resulting in the essay "My Friend Luco." He died shortly thereafter, leaving Poodle Springs unfinished in the wake of the failure of his last complete nov |
| Raymond Chandler 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Subash Maddipoti - | 12 Literature -- American Its penultimate chapter features one character reading aloud from the works of Maine de Biran and Cardinal Newman. Pope [poh-PAY] is responsible for this novel's protagonist having an encyclopedic knowledge of Shakespeare as |
| Brave New World 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Swarthmore A and South Carolina - | 12 Literature -- American It is in flashbacks that this novel's central character reveals his strict upbringing at the hands of the cruel McEachern and his separation from his first love, the prostitute Bobbie Allen. That character's problems include |
| Light in August 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M and Florida B - | 1 Literature -- American This Englishman had "long dwelt in Amsterdam" before deciding to move to America. When we first meet him, he proffers a cup of medicine, and is labeled a "Black Man," or the devil in disguise by his wife. He had sent that wi |
| Roger Chillingsworth 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M and Florida B - | 9 Literature -- American Parts one and two of this book, "The Gift" and "The Great Mountains," were first published in the North American Review. Part three, "The Promise," came four years later in 1937, and the final section, "The Leader of the Peop |
| The Red Pony 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M and Florida B - | 14 Literature -- American Robert Graves wrote that when this poet was a boy of nine, "he had been violently debauched by his nymphomaniac Calvinist housemaid." He was fond of taking shots at his contemporaries and did so in his English Bards and Scot |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA and Florida C - | 9 Literature -- American The title character of this work at one point gives a speech about the legendary Dave Singleman, who inspired him in his profession. A climactic confrontation occurs at Frank Chop's House, where we are introduced to the suspe |
| Death of a Salesman 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 2 Literature -- American In her later years, she edited the letters of Anton Chekhov, wrote the plays The Autumn Garden and Toys in the Attic, and defended herself from charges of fabricating parts of her biographies in An Unfinished Woman and Pentime |
| Lillian Hellman 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 17 Literature -- American The title character of this novel enjoys the radio work of Norman Corwin. He reminisces on "the pumpkin" and "the pilgrim" while deriding the "monkey" Mary Jane Reed, modeled on Margaret Martinson, as well as his mother Soph |
| Portnoy's Complaint 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Yaphe - | 5 Literature -- American The protagonist of this novel goes to work for the Harling family after her neighbors move to Black Hawk. After they disapprove of her fondness for dancing, she leaves them to work for Wick Cutter, but his sexual advances driv |
| My Antonia 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Yaphe - | 20 Literature -- American His first novel features the Cloud Hotel, where a madman named Little Sunshine lives, and such characters as Jesus and Zoo Fever, who live at Skully's Landing. His trip to Russia with a company performing Porgy and Bess led t |
| Truman Capote 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A, NC State, and Florida B - | 3 Literature -- American In one of this man's poems, he remarks that the Naiad has been torn from her flood and the Elfin has been torn from the green grass, while the speaker has lost "the summer dream beneath the tamarind tree." Another of his poems |
| Edgar Allan Poe 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A, NC State, and Florida B - | 23 Literature -- American One of this man's novels consists of the so-called "Everhard Manuscript," which describes Ernest Everhard's struggle against the Oligarchs. Another of his novels features Van Horn, a man who is killed by cannibals, after whic |
| Jack London 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by FSU A, Michigan B, and South Carolina A - | 1 Literature -- American He wrote about the American hotel industry in his Work of Art, while a young actress is the subject of his novel Bethel Merriday. Many of his readers were shocked by the sexual frankness of Cass Timberlane, while others were s |
| Sinclair Lewis 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Grinnell Lyon, Chicago E, UBC A, Florida A, and Penn - | 14 Literature -- American One of this man's novels ends with the title character telling George Strong that she loves Hazard and not him. That novel was published under the pseudonym Frances Snow Compton, while another of this man's novels was publish |
| Henry Adams 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A, Williams A, Alfred, Southeastern, Carleton B, UTC B - | 4 Literature -- American As a young man, the people of this man's county called him Ole One Shot because of his marksmanship. This man earns the ire of Miss Caroline, his daughter's teacher, when she discovers that this man taught his daughter to read |
| Atticus Finch (prompt on "Finch") 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A, Williams A, Alfred, Southeastern, Carleton B, UTC B - | 14 Literature -- American It mentions people who "in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong table." Other figures in this work include the "Chinaman of Oklahoma," people who "journeyed to Denver," "died in Denver," and "came back to D |
| Howl 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky C and Grinnell Vigeland and Northwestern B and UCLA novice - | 1 Literature -- American He dropped seven of his names because their initials spelled out PINHEAD, from his birth name of Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. He saves a central character from the Mangaboos, and later |
| The Wizard of Oz [prompt on The Wizard] 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky C and Grinnell Vigeland and Northwestern B and UCLA novice - | 8 Literature -- American One character in this novel spends an evening drinking with Harvey Stone at the CafƩ Select, where he has an unpleasant encounter with Frances Clyne and her lover. Later, that character takes a bus to Burguete [bur-gwet] with |
| The Sun Also Rises 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky C and Grinnell Vigeland and Northwestern B and UCLA novice - | 23 Literature -- American He wrote about a lady whose "thrushes sing in Rathburn bowers" who "cannot guess" that the speaker kneels "to share her hound's caress" in his poem "The Henchman." He wrote about a man who didn't believe that the "Dark Day" o |
| John Greenleaf Whittier 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Leo Wolpert - | 8 Literature -- American He remarked upon the sin of sloth in the essay "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee" and expounded upon technology in "Is it OK to Be a Luddite?" In one of his short stories, Cleanth Siegel induces Irving Loon to go on a shooting spree |
| Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Leo Wolpert - | 17 Literature -- American In a letter to the Reverend Samuel Occom, this figure strongly condemned slavery, comparing ministers who held slaves to the Ancient Egyptians. This author also wrote of a desire to "surpass the wind, and leave the rolling un |
| Phillis Wheatley 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by LSU, MIT, and UNC - | 13 Literature -- American He wrote about some photographs taken by Roy DeCarava in the book The Sweet Flypaper of Life, while he wrote about his decision to take a job as a messboy on a freighter in his autobiographical The Big Sea. His first book fea |
| Langston Hughes 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 16 Literature -- American One of them is a Carthusian priest who gets in trouble for dispensing communion by standing backwards and tossing the wafer over his shoulder. Another is the father of Ramona who died in a stove explosion, and a letter home f |
| Glass siblings/family 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan X - | 4 Literature -- American His son Hilary wrote about him in the memoir Last Stands. Some of his best-known works were originally published in Reedy's Mirror under the pseudonym Webster Ford. His collections of poetry include The Serpent in the Wilderne |
| Edgar Lee Masters 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A, GWU, and Rose Hulman - | 18 Literature -- American The second group of these writings includes a piece on "Manners" which concludes with a quotation from Silenus claiming that manking is neither good nor bad but only "ridiculous little creatures." That second group also incl |
| the Essays of Emerson 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers and CMU - | 4 Literature -- American At the end of one of this man's novels, Levi Blackwater plucks a few hairs from the head of a dead man. That dead man, Selvy, was decapitated by a man named Van in a section of the novel called "Marathon Mines." At the end o |
| Don DeLillo 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers and CMU - | 16 Literature -- American In his first book of poetry, this man wrote a poem in memory of Ernest Nelson which ends "Scatter these well-meant idioms / Into the smoky spring that fills / The suburbs, where they will be lost." Another poem in his first |
| Hart Crane 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers and CMU - | 20 Literature -- American Her first published story culminates when the bachelor Bowman comes to understand his own life and the marriage of the couple that pull him from a wrecked car. In her autobiography, One Writer's Beginnings, this author descr |
| Eudora Welty 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers and CMU - | 22 Literature -- American He wrote a janitor who watches a high-school graduation in Valedictory, while he wrote about a dog in The Voice of Bugle Ann. His poetic works include Turkey in the Straw and a verse novel about three discharged soldiers, Gl |
| MacKinlay Kantor 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by South Carolina A, Yale A, Grinnell Driscoll, Chicago D, and Florida D - | 6 Literature -- American In one of this man's stories, a "nothinghead" named Billy the Poet refuses to take his "ethical birth control pills," and rapes Suicide Hostess Nancy McLuhan even though she's a six-foot-tall karate expert. In addition to "Wel |
| Kurt Vonnegut 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M, Swarthmore, and Illinois B - | 4 Literature -- American One character in this book breaks his window after seeing a woman in the nude. That character, Reverend Curtis Hartman, is so impressed by this vision of naked flesh that he concludes that Kate Swift is the instrument of his s |
| Winesburg, Ohio 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M, Swarthmore, and Illinois B - | 19 Literature -- American Its second volume includes "Chippings with a Chisel" and "The Lily's Quest" before ending with "The Threefold Destiny." That volume opens with such stories as "Old Esther Dudley" and "Howe's Masquerade," two of the "Legends o |
| Twice-Told Tales 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA - | 4 Literature -- American The main female character of this novel is sleeping with Bump Bailey until he sets up a practical joke whereby she ends up in bed with this novelĀfs protagonist. Later, that female character dates a bookie named Gus Sands, but |
| The Natural 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UT-Austin, Chicago B, Yale B, Florida C, and Laurentian - | 2 Literature -- American This poet wrote "Without a name or history I wake / Between my body and the day" in his poem "Prime," and asked "What does the song hope for?" in his poem "Orpheus." He noted that the "crack in the tea-cup opens / A lane to th |
| Wystan Hugh Auden 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UT-Austin, Chicago B, Yale B, Florida C, and Laurentian - | 6 Literature -- American In Chapter 7 of this novel, the protagonist meets Mr. Crenshaw and a vet who is being transferred to St. Elizabeth's. In a later chapter, the protagonist witnesses the death of Tod Clifton, who has abandoned his idealist cause |
| Invisible Man 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UT-Austin, Chicago B, Yale B, Florida C, and Laurentian - | 14 Literature -- American This poem mentions some hunters who are intent on having "the rabbit out of hiding / To please the yelping dogs." Later, the speaker makes the accurate observation "But here there are no cows" before having a vision of anothe |
| "Mending Wall" 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Vanderbilt A, Georgia Tech A, and Tulsa - | 9 Literature -- American He explained his religious views in the essay "Faith in Search of Understanding," which appeared in his aptly-titled collection Assorted Prose. He wrote three novels inspired by characters from The Scarlet Letter, including A |
| John Updike 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Vanderbilt A, Georgia Tech A, and Tulsa - | 22 Literature -- American During the 1980s he wrote such books as A Memory of Murder and the collection of short stories The Toynbee Convector. His other recent works include the novel Green Shadows, White Whale, which is about writing a screenplay fo |
| Ray Bradbury 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A - | 4 Literature -- American At one point in this work a group is trapped by a rock near Glenn's Falls due to the theft of the boat containing their ammunition. One member of that group later sings wantonly to convince his enemies that he's mad, which all |
| The Last of the Mohicans 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A, Rochester A, and UGA C - | 17 Literature -- American This author wrote about espionage in a short story in which Moldweorp turns against Porpentine, who is subsequently killed. That short story, "Under the Rose,", appears with "The Secret Integration" and "Mortality and Mercy i |
| Thomas Pynchon 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Drake A, MIT B, and Georgia Tech B - | 19 Literature -- American As a child the protagonist of this novel plays with Shelby and Eleanor, who call her Alphabet. She complains about her first husband's big belly, mule-foot toenails, and aversion to washing his feet before bed. Tony and Cok |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia Tech A, Oklahoma A, and Florida B - | 9 Literature -- American The title character in this work once punched a man for joking about his walrus-like physique. A son of that character wants to ask Bill Oliver for a loan to buy a ranch, but is concerned about a past experience involving the |
| Death of a Salesman 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harding A - | 13 Literature -- American He writes that "For God, our God is a gallant foe that playeth behind the veil" in a poem in which he also claims, "For I am made as a naked blade." He calls out to "Gods of the Winged Shoe" in another poem, and in a dramati |
| Ezra Pound 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harding A - | 14 Literature -- American One youth in this work is notably called "Della-croy" by his comrades Bobby and Harry while playing with some rocks. Clyde Dunbar is missing due to a broken leg, but his son Horace is only 16, so Janey has to take over for h |
| The Lottery 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Illinois B - | 10 Literature -- American One character in this novel writes a letter to her employer describing the execution of Lady Jane Grey in the Tower of London. That character is courted by a man who offers her a part in a play put on by his sister Pensil, M |
| Portrait of a Lady 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A and Florida A - | 11 Literature -- American Blatchford Sarnemington is the imaginary alter-ego of Rudolph Miller, who habitually lies to Father Schwartz during confession in one of this man's short stories. "Absolution" is more romantic than his best-known non-fiction |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Keller - | 9 Literature -- American In act one, scene two of this work, the eldest character reads a letter telling him that his ex-wife Cleotha has died. The central female character still mourns for her dead husband Crawley, who was killed while helping two of |
| The Piano Lesson 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky B, South Carolina A, and Dartmouth B - | 2 Literature -- American In one of this author's novels a reunion of the Beechams and the Renfros is interrupted by the return of Jack, the great-grandson of Granny Vaughan. In one of this author's short works a teenage girl is horrified by a fat, ugl |
| Eudora Welty 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 17 Literature -- American At one point in this novel a fat man recites a limerick about a lady who wished to be wild after delivering a racist polemic a against a porter named George. Minor characters include the bohemian widow of a paper-dealer, and |
| Babbitt 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 20 Literature -- American In Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Reuven compares Danny to this figure when he first visits him in the hospital. In one poem, this figure is "slow to smite and swift to spare/ Gentle and merciful and just!", while he is "not forc |
| Abraham Lincoln 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan A and Georgia A - | 17 Literature -- American Count Greffi is a virile 94-year old who acts as a father figure to the protagonist in this work, and Ralph Simmons is an untalented student of opera. While the hero is recuperating after an operation done by Dr. Valentini, |
| A Farewell to Arms 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick A - | 5 Literature -- American One work by this man is a monologue in which Mrs. Rowland yells at her husband repeatedly to get up and out of bed. One of his one-act plays discusses an indiscretion between Evelyn Sands and Jack Townsend, while another feat |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Mike Sorice - | 11 Literature -- American An exhaustive critical biography of this person was published in 2006 by McElrath and Crisler. This writer's own critical theories are contained in The Responsibilities of the Novelist, which discusses the need for authentici |
| Frank Norris 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 7 Literature -- American Among this man's nonfiction works are an essay that uses "the wounded soldier" and "the golden arm" to expound on "How to Write a Story" and a response to a book by Delia Bacon, "Is Shakespeare Dead?" Short stories include one |
| Mark Twain; or Samuel Clemens 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner and Brown - | 6 Literature -- American This author, who was contrasted with Samuel Beckett in Ihab Hassan's The Literature of Silence, discussed his decision to drop out of college rather than read The Faerie Queene in his Stand Still Like the Hummingbird. In one o |
| Henry Valentine Miller 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A, Florida Metropolitan A, and Andrew Yaphe - | 14 Literature -- American The title character is disappointed with his former psychiatrist, Dr. Edvig, because he suspects that Edvig allowed himself to be dominated by the title character's wife. Among the title character's lovers are a Japanese stu |
| Herzog 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Chicago C - | 3 Literature -- American This poem references a line about Triton in Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much With Us" in describing a clear note born by dead lips after the poet thanks the title figure for its heavenly message. The first verse likens the |
| "The Chambered Nautilus" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 18 Literature -- American One character in this work drinks Coca-Cola from a paper sack that most of the townspeople believe contains alcohol, while another, Mrs. Dubose, breaks a morphine habit and dies in pain rather than addicted. A blanket mysteri |
| To Kill a Mockingbird 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Boston University and Georgia B - | 14 Literature -- American One section of this work states that though "houses and rooms are full of perfumes," the atmosphere is odorless. In another section, a woman watches twenty-eight men bathing in an ocean and imagines being able to join them. I |
| "Song of Myself" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Brandeis and Vanderbilt A - | 8 Literature -- American He discovers his affinity with Sir Gerald Doak after teaming up with William Washington Eathorne on a shady business deal. After failing to seduce Ida Putiak, this character becomes disillusioned upon learning that Joe Paradis |
| George Folansbee Babbitt 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Brandeis and Vanderbilt A - | 22 Literature -- American Mike Gold disparaged this author as "the prophet of the genteel Christ" in response to his novel about the Greek courtesan Chrysis. The title character of his last novel becomes a tutor in Newport, Rhode Island after his car |
| Thornton Wilder 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Carnegie Mellon - | 15 Literature -- American This novel's protagonist is disappointed that a promised attack on Spaniards and Arabs turns out to be an assault on a Sunday School picnic. After shooting Boggs, Colonel Sherburn deflates a lynch mob in its twenty-second cha |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A, Drake A, UNC A - | 13 Literature -- American He compared "the struggling tides of life" to "eddies of the mighty stream / that rolls to its appointed end" in "The Crowded Street." He wrote about the replacement of Native American societies with the "advancing multitude" |
| William Cullen Bryant 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Columbia and South Carolina - | 1 Literature -- American In one section of this work, the protagonist is told "everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified" by Doctor Parcival. In another, David Hardy uses a sling to attack Jesse Bentley out of terror during the failed |
| Winesburg, Ohio 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth B - | 2 Literature -- American A chess automaton kills its inventor in this author's short story "Moxon's Master," which appears in his collection Can Such Things Be? This author of Fantastic Fables wrote about a deaf child who takes dying soldiers from the |
| Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by ACF Editors and California-Irvine - | 20 Literature -- American Travis Bogard edited the Library of America volumes of this author, who never finished his planned cycle A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. He first gained attention with four one-act plays about the S.S. Glencairn, incl |
| Eugene O'Neill 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida State A - | 13 Literature -- American One character in this work describes jazz as "Chinese music," and compares a furniture salesman to the devil. In its opening scene, two characters discuss a co-worker named Brownie, who got caught trying to steal a watermelon |
| Fences 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A, Dartmouth A, and UNC B - | 16 Literature -- American The beginning of this story quotes James Thomson's poem "The Castle of Indolence." Yost Van Houten constructed the house of its protagonist, who "was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's History of New-England Witchcraft." The |
| "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A, Dartmouth A, and UNC B - | 21 Literature -- American His first novel, about a day in the life of postal worker Jake Johnson, was published posthumously as Lawd Today. He included such stories as "The Man Who Lived Underground" and "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" in Eight Men, an |
| Richard Wright 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 2 Literature -- American In one of this author's short stories, Sally Carrol Happer returns to the South after being lost inside an ice palace. Jerry Frost is elected president before becoming a postman in his absurdist play The Vegetable. His first n |
| Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 7 Literature -- American In one of this author's short stories, Richard Morrison quits smoking after the title organization administers electric shocks to his family members. In one of his novels, Ray Garrity wins the title competition, only to go ins |
| Stephen King 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Trygve Meade - | 2 Literature -- American A white family disregards Nancy's fear that she will be murdered by her husband Jesus in this author's short story "That Evening Sun." His experiences as an aviator inspired his first novel, Soldier's Pay, while the protagonis |
| William Faulkner [accept "That Evening Sun" until "author's"] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Trygve Meade - | 18 Literature -- American The structure of this poem's second part is based on Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno. The end of its first section quotes Christ's last words to describe "cities [shivered] down to their last radio." Its second section asks |
| "Howl" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 22 Literature -- American In one of his short stories, Babe Gladwaller is bitten by a red ant in a German foxhole. In another, a graduate student nicknamed "The Chief" tells the Comanche Club stories about a horrifyingly deformed Chinese bandit. In ad |
| Jerome David Salinger 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick - | 9 Literature -- American This work's protagonist associates a piece of music called "Solitude" with a naked man abandoned by a fleeing bird. After Raoul comes down with a fever, the protagonist is rebuked for her "habitual neglect of the children." Op |
| The Awakening 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 13 Literature -- American In one of this author's short stories, an Italian maid brings an American couple the title animal on the orders of a hotel padrone. In another, Bugs uses a blackjack to calm down an ex-prizefighter turned hobo named Ad Franci |
| Ernest Hemingway 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Tiebreakers - | 4 Literature -- American In one of this author's stories, a mother prevents her daughter Dee from taking the family quilts from her younger sister Maggie; that work is "Everyday Use." This author wrote about Tashi, who murders the female circumciser M |
| Alice Walker 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Tiebreakers - | 8 Literature -- American This poet asks in one poem, "What to make of a diminished thing?" and the speaker of another poem discusses a "luminary clock" that "proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right" before asserting that he is "acquainted with |
| Robert Frost 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 2 Literature -- American This author wrote a bizarre work that juxtaposes a biography of James Buchanan with the titular President in Memories of the Ford Administration. One novel by this author discusses Piet Hanema's philandering, while another cul |
| John Hoyer Updike 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Brown - | 4 Literature -- American One character in this work tells a story about being courted by Edgar Atkins Teagarden from Jasper, Georgia, and every Saturday, he would bring her a watermelon with his initials carved into it, while dining at "The Tower," wh |
| "A Good Man is Hard to Find" 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Caltech and Langston - | 8 Literature -- American He wrote about an artist hired to paint a marriage portrait, who realizes that Walter Ludlow will attack Elinor in "The Prophetic Pictures." In one of his stories, Annie Hovenden's child crushes the mechanical butterfly create |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Caltech and Langston - | 21 Literature -- American In one of this author's stories, Ruby Fischer reads an article about a woman of the same name, who is murdered by her husband. In another story, Phoenix Jackson buys medicine for her grandson. Robbie leaves her husband Georg |
| Eudora Welty 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 14 Literature -- American Two characters in this novel are shunned from their home country after they throw a newly wed couple off their sled to divert a pack of hungry wolves chasing them. The title character is enthralled by the music of the Blind D |
| My Antonia 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A - | 20 Literature -- American This author wrote about Father Fish who mentors Richard, a schoolboy who crushes a snake after skipping an Easter vigil to go swimming at the end of his novel The Morning Watch. One of his stories subtitled "Summer 1915" was |
| James Agee 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Eden Prairie High School - | 2 Literature -- American He wrote about Una Golden who marries Edward Schwirtz instead of Walter Babson in The Job, and a man discovers he is the descendent of Xavier Pic in Kingsblood Royal. In one work, Doremus Jessup tries to stop the political car |
| Sinclair Lewis 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Eden Prairie High School - | 11 Literature -- American This work discusses a "high and urgent purpose in my soul" that inspires Frank Drummer to attempt to memorize the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, and another section centers on a woman, who declares that "no mother would let |
| Spoon River Anthology 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A - | 11 Literature -- American One man in this work points out his father's snoring by quoting Othello: "The Moor, I know his trumpet." That character quotes Baudelaire when he's courting a comically obese prostitute named Fat Violet, and also questions t |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 11 Literature -- American One of his title characters has a vision of Enceladus' attack on the Mount of Titans before he drinks poison with his sister Isabel Banford. In another of his novels, Charlie Noble rejects Frank's loan, and the title characte |
| Herman Melville 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 17 Literature -- American One of his protagonists is chased by the "Man with Queer Feet" before experiencing a vision of Dick Humbird in a dark alley. That man's mother, Beatrice O'Hara, has an affair with Monsignor Darcy, who introduces him to litera |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald [Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard C - | 19 Literature -- American Characters created by this author include Jim, a child who is told by a lightning rod salesman that his house will be hit in the upcoming storm, and Douglas Spaulding, a twelve-year-old who convinces Mr. Sanderson to let him |
| Ray Bradbury 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois B - | 21 Literature -- American This author chronicled the succession of owners of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer in the novel Picture This. King Solomon is nicknamed "Shlomo" and derives all of his wisdom from clay tablets in his re |
| Joseph Heller 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri S&T and Dartmouth B - | 4 Literature -- American The voice of Frank Johnson can be heard in one recording of this event that was reported on live by Tom Pettit, and the central figure is flanked by L.C. Graves and James Leavelle in Jack Beers' photo of it. The narration of |
| the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald [accept equivalents] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri S&T and Dartmouth B - | 21 Literature -- American In chapter fifteen of this novel, the waitress Mae sells a begging man and his two sons a loaf of bread and two pieces of candy for a discount price. One character sees her suitor Herb beaten to death by a shovel by her futur |
| The Grapes of Wrath 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri - | 3 Literature -- American He wrote about One Blossom's romance with the Russian immigrant Yozip Bloom, who inadvertently becomes chief of the titular Indian tribe in The People, and in another work Lily Hirschorn is misled by the marriage broker Pinye, |
| Bernard Malamud 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by MIT A - | 15 Literature -- American In one of this man's works, Thomas Hudson comes to terms with the death of his kids and hunts for a damaged German boat. He wrote a work in which Harry Morgan runs contraband, and also wrote of Robert and Maria, who clash wit |
| Ernest Hemingway 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Penn A and Louisiana-Lafayette - | 20 Literature -- American He wrote about a rock star whose tempted by Azarian and Dr. Pepper, and is later chased by the evil organization, "The Happy Valley Farm Commune." That character, Bucky Wunderlick appears in Great Jones Street, while Keith Ne |
| Don DeLillo 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A, Missouri State, and J.S. Reynolds - | 14 Literature -- American In one of this author's novels Culla, abandons his sister Rinthy's incestuous child in a forest, and in another book the witch "Mother She" is consulted by the giant Abnego Jones and Cornelius has left his family to live in a |
| Cormac McCarthy [or Charles McCarthy] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCSD and Princeton A - | 1 Literature -- American Sonny and his wife fix one of these objects belonging to the title character of a Eudora Welty short story. Boon steals one of these belonging to Lucius's grandfather, which Ned McCaslin later trades away in The Reivers. Madel |
| cars [or automobiles] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Michigan - | 21 Literature -- American In one of his short stories, Paul Kovel tries to help his crazy neighbor Timothy Stokes, who believes he is a werewolf. Along with Werewolves in their Youth and A Model World, he wrote about the son of the gangster "Joe the E |
| Michael Chabon Berkeley - | 9 Literature -- European Mysteries in this novel include the birthday of the main character and the identity of Martha Clifford, who flirts with him by mail. In a major event, the protagonist masturbates while looking at Gerty MacDowell's legs during |
| Ulysses Berkeley - | 13 Literature -- European The husband of the title character of this literary work is a scholar writing a book about the domestic handicrafts of Brabant in the Middle Ages. A recurring theme is the desire to "die beautifully", and is first seen when t |
| Hedda Gabler Chicago - | 3 Literature -- European Its coins include the sprug, drurr, and glumgluff. Its emperor supports the Slamecksan faction, while the prince is thought to favor the rival Tramecksans, who wear high-heeled shoes. Civil unrest followed the prophet Lustro |
| Lilliput Chicago - | 11 Literature -- European It is said that this play's title character "always wears her hair in the same style." Its author, while attempting to learn English, was amazed by the emptiness of the bits of daily conversation he found in his English phra |
| The Bald Soprano (or _La Cantatrice chauve_) Chicago - | 17 Literature -- European In this novel, Rosamond Vincy is more interested in money than moral standards, causing trouble for her husband, Dr. Lydgate, as he struggles to decide whether to build a wealthy medical practice or pursue idealistic medical |
| Middlemarch Chicago - | 22 Literature -- European An unusual blend of textbook and novel, it was written by a former high school teacher who wanted to write an introduction to philosophy within the framework of a mystery story. The title character receives strange mail addr |
| Sophie's World (or _Sofies verden_) Florida Atlantic - | 4 Literature -- European In this play, the female protagonist's young son dies only a year after her husband's death, prompting a five year trip to Paris. The plot is set in motion by the need to pay for this trip and for Anya's return home. In respon |
| The Cherry Orchard (or Vishnovy sad) Florida Atlantic - | 13 Literature -- European Toward the end of this novel, the title character takes in Sally Godfrey's daughter to raise alongside her own son, Billy, and her husband decides to be faithful to her. About 900 pages earlier, she is employed as a servant |
| Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Florida - | 8 Literature -- European Serialized in the magazine All the Year Round, the scheme at the center of this novel's plot is hatched by Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde, and is eventually solved by Walter Hartright and his lover Marian. In an attempt to |
| The Woman in White Florida - | 15 Literature -- European A major moment in this novel occurs when the protagonist, lost in the snow, has a vision of a classical temple in which two hags are eating a child. Having come to the Haus Berghof to visit his cousin Joachim Ziemessen, the d |
| The Magic Mountain Florida - | 20 Literature -- European Characters in this play include Doctor Pinch, the ludicrously fat maid Luce, and the just Duke Solinus. When it opens, the Syracuse merchant Egeon has been sentenced to death; meanwhile his son is involved in a shipwreck whic |
| The Comedy of Errors Kentucky - | 3 Literature -- European In this work the author tells of his unhappiness at Manchester Grammar School and his subsequent escape. After befriending a 16 year-old prostitute named Ann he goed to Oxford, where his two great joys are to hera the soprano |
| Confessions of an English Opium Eater Kentucky - | 16 Literature -- European At one point this author of "Arc de Triomphe" supported himself as a race-car driver and sportswriter. Although he received acclaim for his late novel "A Time to Love and a Time to Die", he is best-known for a novel continued |
| Erich Maria Remarque Kentucky - | 22 Literature -- European The action of the play takes place in the basement of what appears to be a restauraunt in Birmingham, where the two main characters have been sent by the mysterious and uncommunicative Wislon. Confused by several cryptic mess |
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| Fathers and Sons Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Der Steppenwolf Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Great Expectations Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| The Misanthrope Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Thomas Hardy Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Cymbeline Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Death in Venice Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Edward Gibbon Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Kelly McKenzie ( | 5) - |
| Kidnapped Michigan A and Cornell - | 1 Literature -- European This poem ends each of its 4 stanzas with the same invocation, though the last line becomes a positive statement with the insertion of the word "enjoy". The speaker compares himself to a "committed linnet", or finch, and celeb |
| To Althea, from Prison Michigan A and Cornell - | 16 Literature -- European This play features a fire at the beginning of the third act which cruelly reminds the nurse Anfisa and the old boarder Ferapont of class distinctions. Act 4 features Solyoni and Tuzenbach killing one another in a duel for the |
| The Three Sisters Michigan B - | 10 Literature -- European The seventh stanza alludes to the story of Ruth, saying that "when sick for home, she stood in tears amid the alien corn." In the sixth stanza the poet says that he has often been "half in love" with the idea of Death, and ca |
| Ode to a Nightengale Michigan B - | 20 Literature -- European He wrote a series of parodies of his favorite authors published in Le Figaro entitled "The Lemon Affair," while his theories on the universal function of literature can be seen in "Contre Saint-Beuve". Author of the collectio |
| Marcel Proust Stanford - | 14 Literature -- European This poem is composed of four quattrains in which the speaker beseeches the reader, "may there be no sadness of farewell, / When I embark..." The dark comes after "twilight and evening bell," and the speaker expresses his wi |
| Crossing the Bar Texas A&M - | 6 Literature -- European On the night of the title character's birth, his father murdered his employer Mr. Haredale, a fact mysteriously connected with his mental retardation. He wears all green and always carries a raven named Grip in a basket on hi |
| Barnaby Rudge Texas A&M - | 10 Literature -- European Famed for his skill in duels, this author was wounded during the siege of Arras in 1640, and gave up his military career to study under the philosopher Pierre Gassendi. He aroused controversy with his blasphemous play The Dea |
| Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac Texas A&M - | 14 Literature -- European This group met regularly in the Apollo Room of the Devil Tavern, and were particularly noted for their frank, fanciful love poems. Works of this group included "To Make Much of Time", "Delight in Disorder", "Aglaura", "Brenn |
| Cavalier Poets or Sons of Ben or Tribe of Ben South Carolina and Texas A&M - | 4 Literature -- European "Is it a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?" is the entire content of Chapter 5 of Volume IV of this novel, while both Chapters 18 and 19 of Volume IX of this novel are completely devoid o |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman South Carolina and Texas A&M - | 21 Literature -- European This poetic work gives its name to the meter in which it is written, a 4-couplet mix of iamb and anapest. An unfinished supernatural romance, the title character discoveres Geraldine while praying for her fiance in the woods |
| Christabel 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley and South Carolina - | 4 Literature -- European At one point the protagonist of this novel is forced to kill the rascal Giletti, which soon leads him into an affair with the actress Marietta Valsera. In his youth he joined the cause of Napoleon, killing a Prussian officer a |
| The Charterhouse of Parma 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley and South Carolina - | 20 Literature -- European At one point the protagonist is taken in by the Reverend St. John Rivers, who she soon learns is her cousin. As a child she spent ten years with her hateful aunt-in-law Mrs. Reed of Gateshead Hall, but experienced happiness a |
| Jane Eyre 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 3 Literature -- European He developed an interest in the supernatural soon before he died, producing such works as The Political History of the Devil and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions--years after he wrote such early English ghost |
| Daniel Defoe (or Daniel Foe) 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 6 Literature -- European Early accounts stating that this Arthurian hero's strength increased until noon and then waned hint at his origins in solar myth. The son of Lot and Margause, he defeats and kills his mother's lover Sir Lamerok and Morgan Le |
| Sir Gawain (accept, but be surprised to hear, Gwalchmei, Gauvain, or Galvanus) 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 8 Literature -- European She disapproves of the mentality represented by her in-law, Squire Winter. While on vacation in Venice, she employs the gondoliers Daniele and Giovanni, while unbeknownst to her, Bertha Coutts has returned to Wragby, thwartin |
| Lady Chatterley or Constance Chatterley or Connie Chatterley 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 10 Literature -- European One scene reveals the heroine, accompanied by her lapdog, Shock, triumphing over the Baron in a game of ombre. However, despite the protection of the Sylph Ariel, the Baron perpetrates the titular act, and chaos ensues, aggr |
| The Rape of the Lock 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 20 Literature -- European In one incident, he pushed a soldier out of his yard, leading to a charge of sedition of which he was acquitted. He declared that "all he knew was in the Bible," and designed a set of sketches for the Book of Job. Explainin |
| William Blake 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida State A - | 7 Literature -- European In a house on Usher's Island, the protagonist of this story worries that his quoting from Robert Browning in his after-dinner speech will be over the listeners' heads. However, his metaphor of the Three Graces is well receive |
| The Dead 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois and Yale - | 11 Literature -- European The central male figure of this poem is described as possessing "coal-black curls" and wearing a "silver bugle" and a shield that "sparkled on the yellow field" while passing though the "purple night", but only comes to the a |
| The Lady of Shalott 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 4 Literature -- European On a number of occasions the poet refers to the title objects as keeping "a sort of Runic rhyme". Initially they foretell a "world of merriment", but are soon described as "ghouls" recounting a "tale of terror". In four stanza |
| The Bells 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 7 Literature -- European One of its characters is a finicky schoolmaster who suggests reading lists of all of his students from the past 50 years to alleviate boredom. Some excitement ensues when a fire nearly destroys the town and Doctor Chebutykin i |
| The Three Sisters or Tri Sestry 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 12 Literature -- European A meeting with actor William Macready convinced this writer to try his hand at stage writing, but his two published plays Strafford and A Blot in the Scutcheon were not as successful as early poems like "Count Gismond-Aix in |
| Robert Browning 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 1 Literature -- European Much of the comedy in this play is provided by the dim-witted constable Elbow and the flamboyant bachelor Lucio. After setting the plot in motion, one central figure disguises himself as Friar Lodowick to witness the subsequen |
| Measure for Measure 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 11 Literature -- European The entrance of his brother into a Carthusian monastery is said to have inspired this man's Secretum Meum, while other interesting works include his Italia Mia, inspired by his friendship with the Republican revivalist Cola d |
| Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 16 Literature -- European Though his parents had supported Parliament during the civil war, this poet demonstrated his loyalty to the returning Charles II in such poems as "To His Sacred Majesty" and "Astrea Redux", and even created the part of Florim |
| John Dryden 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland - | 3 Literature -- European This poem is composed of ten line stanzas, with lines 5, 6, and 7 rhyming with the last three lines in a constantly shifting pattern. Stanza four opens by describing a "mysterious priest" leading a heifer to a "green alter". I |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland - | 13 Literature -- European This writer called sex "the punishment for being together," yet he frequently slept with prostitutes. An employee at the Workers' Accident Insurance Corporation in Prague, he reluctantly published some of his shorter works, |
| Franz Kafka 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| The Power and the Glory 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| Erich Maria Remarque 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Margaret Atwood 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
| 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Notes from the Underground (or Letters from the Underworld) 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Desdemona 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Death, Be Not Proud 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| My Last Duchess 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Miguel de Cervantes 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 5) - |
| The Spectator 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 5) - |
| Emile Zola 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 7 Literature -- European At one point in this novel, the protagonist receives an X-ray of the skeletal structure of his paramour as a gift from Behrens, while the theorist Georg Lukacs is the inspiration for the lapsed Jew Leo Naphta. The main charact |
| The Magic Mountain 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 15 Literature -- European At the outset of this novel, Heloise Dubuc dies of shock after a lawyer steals all her property. Another character, Binet, spends his free time making napkin rings on his lathe in his attic. Financial troubles for the title |
| Madame Bovary 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 20 Literature -- European Before he began authoring original work, he doctored The Spanish Tragedy for Henslowe, and adapted two Roman comedies in The Case is Altered. He was satirically portrayed in Marston's Histriomastix, though he later collaborat |
| Ben Jonson 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Stanford - | 6 Literature -- European The author of this work wrote in 1925's A Vision that its subject represented how "religious, aesthetic, and practical life were one." The third stanza implores "sages standing in God's holy fire" to "be the singing-masters" |
| Sailing to Byzantium 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Stanford - | 9 Literature -- European Getting his start in writing with the poetry collection "Babbling April", he went on to write the plays "The Living Room" and "The Complaisant Lover", but is better known for his novels. He found his voice with his fourth nove |
| (Henry) Graham Greene 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley - | 3 Literature -- European This author's satirical style is seen in such stories as "The Coach" and "Old-World Landowners". His last days saw him come under the spell of the fanatical priest Konstantinovsky, who convinced him to burn the completed manus |
| Nicolai Gogol 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley - | 8 Literature -- European A recent translation of this literary work used such diverse inspirations as Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.R. Rogers, and the translator's barely-literate aunt to create a version notable for its unique versification and juxtaposit |
| Beowulf 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley - | 20 Literature -- European Worried about the reputation this poem might give him, the poet wrote a companion poem decades later whose epilogue contains the line "And who loves War for War's own sake is fool or crazed or worse." It is written in six sta |
| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Central Florida - | 3 Literature -- European The story begins with the author saying he saw the main character in a dream, crying out because his family and town had to be destroyed. That protagonist flees the town without his family, who won't leave, and after sundry a |
| The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come, Part I 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 4 Literature -- European The most annoying character in this novel is the former Augusta Hawkins, whose Bristol vulgarity is readily apparent. Miss Bates and her mother are also quite annoying, and the former is cruelly rebuked by the heroine, an act |
| Emma 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 9 Literature -- European His early works include the historical sagas Love's Comedy and The Pretenders, but of these it is his first production, 1850's Catiline, that is the only one still frequently performed. His first major play was the verse drama |
| Henrik Ibsen 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 13 Literature -- European This poem deviates only four times from end-stopped lines, notably upon the introduction of the "hoary-headed swain" who is the speaker in most of the latter portion. A famous section is its conclusion, "The Epitaph", written |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 20 Literature -- European Known by the nickname "The American" for his democratic sympathies as a student, he wrote criticism like the essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and stories like "Mumu", in which a serf is forced to kill his beloved pet dog. His |
| Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 14 Literature -- European The speaker catalogues the three stages of his youth and "the coarser pleasures of my boyish days / And their glad animal movements all gone by." However, he goes on to say that "other gifts / Have followed; for such loss, I |
| Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Emory - | 11 Literature -- European In the opening of this work we learn of the title figure's fine clothes, her elaborately ostentatious "coverchiefs", and her hat as broad as a buckler shield. She then describes a fight she picked with her misogynist husband |
| The Wife of Bath 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Emory - | 16 Literature -- European This author was known for his intense preparation, as when he rode in a locomotive to research La Bete Humaine. He was fired from his job as a clerk in a publishing house when the autobiographical novel The Confession of Clau |
| Emile Zola 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Miscellaneous - | 1 Literature -- European Book IV of this literary work includes the tale of Scudamour and Amoret, Book III features the character Belphoebe, and Book II describes the destruction of Acrasia and her Bower of Bliss. Book I tells of the rescue of Lady Un |
| The Faerie Queene 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida Metropolitan - | 2 Literature -- European It is revealed that the protagonist has decided to commit suicide on his 50th birthday, a fact learned while he reads a treatise about himself given to him by a strange man carrying a sandwich board and tray of almanacs. His e |
| Steppenwolf 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida Metropolitan - | 6 Literature -- European At one point, the poet describes the archangel of the soul trapped between two visual images, soon after which a wail of "eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani" shivers the cities. The poet explains that he is not safe while his belo |
| Howl 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida Metropolitan - | 9 Literature -- European Part of this work recounts the author's attempt to understand man through the technique and style of Europe, revealing only a succession of negations and murders. It claimed that, although Europe had stuffed itself with gold a |
| The Wretched of the Earth (Les Damnes de la terre) 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida Metropolitan - | 11 Literature -- European He wrote the failed epic King Arthur shortly before turning to realism with the 1853 work My Novel and the three-volume novel The Caxtons. He established himself as a popular writer with Pelham, and continually anticipated ch |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida Metropolitan - | 19 Literature -- European While in Simla, the title character is instructed in the arts of spying and disguise by Lurgan. He frequently runs errands for Mahbub Ali, and experiences a series of picaresque adventures carrying a vital message to Colonel |
| Kim 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida - | 7 Literature -- European This author's early work came as a translator, producing important English language versions of Strauss's Life of Jesus Critically Examined and Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity. She used local events as the basis for storie |
| George Eliot (or Mary Ann Evans) 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida - | 24 Literature -- European Fuseli and Corot both painted scenes from this play. The rivals of the title character include Menteith, Caithness, Lennox, and Siward, who march their armies to Birnam Wood and then toward Dunsinane. FTP, name this shortest |
| Macbeth 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 3 Literature -- European Influenced by Blake's "The Sick Rose," he wrote the poem "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," which won him the publication of his first collection, 18 Poems. Some of his notable short stories are collect |
| Dylan Thomas 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 13 Literature -- European During the 19th century, many notable actresses were attracted to the rantings of Constance in this play. In a memorable scene, Arthur's moving pleas convince Hubert de Burgh not to blind him, but Arthur later jumps to death |
| The Life and Death of King John 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 6 Literature -- European One development of this novel is the imprisonment in Rolande's tower of the madwoman Paquette la Chantfleurie, who lost her sanity after gypsies kidnapped her daughter. Another sympathetic character is the poet-philosopher Gri |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (accept the Notre-Dame of Paris or the Cathedral of Paris) 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 16 Literature -- European He examined the English class system in the pro-feminist work Ann Veronica and discussed religion in the works God, the Invisible King and First and Last Things. He described a political sex scandal in the novel The New Machi |
| Herbert George Wells 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky - | 19 Literature -- European This literary work is composed of sections called "Passus", and, due to the great dissimilarity of its two halves, it is usually divided into two parts known as the "Visio" and the "Vita". The "Vita" is less popular, and sees |
| The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| Walter Scott 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| All Quiet on the Western Front 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 2) - |
| Philip Massinger 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| the Sonnets of Shakespeare 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Orlando: A Biography 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 1 Literature -- European In a note accompanying this poem, the author states that it is a "psychological curiosity." At one point, its title figure hears "Ancestral voices prophesying war," and it ends with a warning to "Beware! Beware! his flashing e |
| Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment. 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 6 Literature -- European This author's work The Meeting at Telgte is a retelling of the Thirty Years War, while plays include Flood and Max. He wrote essays decrying reunification that were collected in the volume The Future of German Democracy, and f |
| Gunter Grass 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 21 Literature -- European The protagonist's husband has been saving up to purchase a gun so he can shoot larks on the plain of Nanterre, but is despondent when he must spend the money on a dress. The heroine is the daughter of artisans, though she lon |
| The Necklace 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 1 Literature -- European In the second part of this poem, the author examines at great length the pentangle emblazoned on the protagonist's shield that symbolizes the virtues to which he is dedicated. It consists of 2,530 lines of alliterative verse w |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 11 Literature -- European The second work to feature this character sees him travel to England, where he engages in a series of debates about the nature of love, religion, and philosophy. In the first work, he visits Naples and attempts to woo Lucilla |
| Euphues 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 15 Literature -- European He fought in World War I and worked on the staff of the Oxford English dictionary before becoming a professor of English literature at Oxford. His scholarly works include A Middle English Vocabulary and the lecture series Be |
| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M - | 1 Literature -- European One of this author's late works was the uncharacteristically comical novel The Paper Men. He won a Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first volume of his "sea trilogy" To the Ends of the Earth. He is better known for works |
| William Golding 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M - | 6 Literature -- European This novel's epigram is taken from Romans 12:19, and reads "Vengeance is mine ... saith the Lord." Stephen is the title character's brother, and is married to Dolly, while Constantine falls in love with Dolly's younger sister |
| Anna Karenina 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M - | 16 Literature -- European The need for this author to support his family prompted his prolific output of magazine articles collected as Selections Grave and Gay from Writings Published and Unpublished, which included The Last Days of Immanuel Kant and |
| Thomas De Quincey 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M - | 19 Literature -- European The title character of this novel briefly travels with a Punch and Judy show, while her brother Frederick schemes to have her marry Dick Swiveller so that he may inherit her fortune. She and her grandfather are befriended by |
| The Old Curiosity Shop 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Virginia - | 9 Literature -- European The final pages of this novel include diary entries that follow a discussion between the protagonist and Cranly about the reasons for the protagonist's departure, as well as a scene in which the play The Countess Cathleen is b |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Virginia - | 15 Literature -- European This author gained financial success with the novel Change. Famously described as a racist by Chinua Achebe, English was his third language, and his lack of fluency is shown in An Outcast of the Islands. He collaborated with |
| Joseph Conrad 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley B, Rutgers, and Chris Romero - | 8 Literature -- European According to this poem when you "Come to the window" to smell the sweet night air, "Listen! you hear the grating roar" of pebbles that "bring the eternal note of sadness in." "Sophocles long ago" heard what the speaker hears, |
| Dover Beach 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley C, Florida State B, and Alfred University - | 3 Literature -- European Among the images decorating it are a young man lying with his lover beneath a glade of trees while playing a pipe and a group of villagers leading a heifer to sacrifice. It is initially addressed as the "foster child of silen |
| the Grecian Urn (accept Ode on a Grecian Urn) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley C, Florida State B, and Alfred University - | 8 Literature -- European This play features a minor role for the nanny Anne-Marie, who had to give up her own child to take her current job. The central figure has three children, Bob, Emmy, and Ivar and is contrasted to some degree with her childhoo |
| A Doll's House or A Dollhouse 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley C, Florida State B, and Alfred University - | 13 Literature -- European In her essay "22 Hyde Park Gate," also the address of her childhood home, she alludes to the sexual abuse of her half-brother Gerald Duckworth upon both her and her sister, Vanessa. She parodies her own devotion to Vanessa i |
| Virginia Woolf 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Carleton and Georgia Tech B - | 6 Literature -- European The title character's fate is sealed when Parson Tringham relates news of her father's ancestry at the beginning of this novel. Halfway through, we find that title character working at Talbothay's, having already buried her s |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Carleton and Georgia Tech B - | 18 Literature -- European When traveling to Germany at the age of 19, the steamer he was on caught fire, an experience that inspired his story "A Fire at Sea." He wrote several plays, of which A Provincial Lady and A Month in the Country were the mos |
| Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A and Vanderbilt A - | 16 Literature -- European Shortly before his death this writer wrote "Give me the moon at my feet / Put my feet upon the crescent, like a Lord!" At the end of his life, he was admired by several women who called him Lorenzo and considered themselves h |
| David Herbert Lawrence 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago C, Kentucky A, and Delaware - | 12 Literature -- European The title character of this novel eventually gets cuckolded when his former rival, a local inn-keeper, comes into a large inheritance. He enters into a marriage against the wishes of his mother after having left behind a lif |
| Return of the Native 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago C, Kentucky A, and Delaware - | 17 Literature -- European The magistrate Othon proves to be an obstructive force in this novel but his tune changes upon the death of his son Jacques. Another change overcomes Cottard, who goes crazy as a result of the titular situation. It features |
| The Plague (or La Peste) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago C, Kentucky A, and Delaware - | 26 Literature -- European Among the accessory characters are the tax collector Binet and the young assistant Justin who unwittingly assists in the title character's final act. This novel features some theological arguments between Bournisien and the |
| Madame Bovary 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 6 Literature -- European In chapter 8 of this novel, Block the tradesman is introduced to the protagonist by Leni. In chapter 9, the protagonist is ordered to escort an Italian to the Cathedral, and in the tenth and final chapter, set on the evening |
| The Trial 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 11 Literature -- European Count Robert de Montesquiou was the original of his homosexual character Baron de Charlus. He used Laure Hayman, his uncle's mistress, as the basis for his character Odette, and his lovers Reynaldo Hahn and Lucien Daudet wer |
| Marcel Proust 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 16 Literature -- European It begins with Sir Hugh Evans learning that his cousin, Justice Robert Shallow, refuses to be abused. It ends with Mr. Brook revealing his true identity after having pretended to be an aspiring lover of his own wife. In the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 19 Literature -- European The poet invokes memories of the recently ended French Revolution with the question "Dare its deadly terrors clasp," one of the few references in this poem not directly relating to the title figure. Images of that title figu |
| "The Tyger" 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 24 Literature -- European He concluded that "This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, is immortal diamond" in "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire." In a poem "to a young child," he asked MƔrgarƩt if she was "grieving over Go |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Kentucky C - | 2 Literature -- European The sensitive Balthasar sings the song "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more," but it is Conrad who has been portrayed as the possible homosexual lover of the villain in recent productions of this play. That villain is part of |
| Much Ado About Nothing 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Kentucky C - | 12 Literature -- European He spoke of the "Champak odours" that fail "like sweet thoughts in a dream" and experimented with an Orientalist theme in the love poem "The Indian Serenade." He wrote of the life of the man who is bound by the titular "Spir |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Kentucky C - | 20 Literature -- European He had to yet to find his mature form in the novel Armance. He wrote of his own life at length in his Memoirs of Egotism and the autobiographical novel The Life of Henry Brulard. An influential analysis of love is given in |
| Stendhal (or Marie-Henri Beyle) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Cvijanovich - | 2 Literature -- European Along with his future executor Owen Barfield and J.R.R. Tolkien he was a member of a group of Oxford Medievalists called the Inklings and wrote a number of works on the Middle Ages including Allegory of Love and The Discarded |
| C(live) S(taples) Lewis 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Cvijanovich - | 17 Literature -- European Omens in this play include a black-footed pig eating part of a newly bought rope and a black knot around a package which has recently been brought by a young priest who never appears on stage. Two sisters, Cathleen and Nora, |
| Riders to the Sea 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 2 Literature -- European Highlights in this play include the theft of a ring and the reunion of a Neapolitan family thought to be lost at sea. Minor characters include the designing woman Frosine, and the servants La Fleche and Master Jacques who trea |
| The Miser or L'Avare 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 7 Literature -- European The ostensible villain of this work is the heir to the estate Coombe Magnon, and he must marry Sophia Grey to ensure that inheritance. The heroine briefly becomes the confidant of Lucy Steele, who had entered into a secret en |
| Sense and Sensibility 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 17 Literature -- European St. Peter is called upon as "the pilot of the Galilean Lake" who shakes his keys "of metals twain." This poem's narrator asks if it would not be better to play with the tangles of Nearea's hair or sport with Amaryllis in the |
| Lycidas 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 6 Literature -- European It is prefaced with a quote placing Venus as both Hesperus, the evening star, and the morning star - a quote by Plato. The thirty-sixth stanza makes an allusion to Leigh Hunt's mentoring, and the forty-sixth stanza makes refe |
| Adonais 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 11 Literature -- European At the time of his death, his novels Fruitfulness, Labor, and Truth were the completed works in his unfinished Four Gospels series. An earlier trilogy, which contained works about Rome, Lourdes, and Paris, marked his return |
| Emile Zola 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 16 Literature -- European She is known for her skill at salting pork, and her name is described as "musical, uncommon, and significant." When we are first set to meet her, the priest and barber appear and interrupt the delivery of a letter to her. T |
| Dulcinea del Toboso (accept early buzz of Aldonza Lorenzo or Aldonza del Toboso) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 19 Literature -- European In one of this novel's tragic scenes, a falsely accused character falls into the Old Hell Shaft and dies. By the end Sleary, the proprietor of a local circus, helps the real culprit Tom flee England. A related plot thread f |
| Hard Times 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by St. Thomas - | 2 Literature -- European His political tract, The Conduct of Allies, was instrumental in causing the dismissal of the Duke of Marlborough from command. By then he had abandoned writing poetry, primarily due to the criticism of his cousin John Dryden. |
| Jonathan Swift 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by St. Thomas - | 7 Literature -- European It is the profession of Walter Hartwright, the ostensible protagonist of Wilkie Collins' Woman in White. It is also the profession of Noemie Nioche in Henry James' The American and while he is in Paris, Philip Carey attempts |
| painter or draughtsman (prompt on "artist;" accept word forms like "painting," etc.) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by St. Thomas - | 17 Literature -- European Among the lesser known works of this series are The Quest for the Absolute and The Village Curate. It also includes such early novellas as Madame Firmian and Colonel Chabert, but the series is often considered to have begun |
| The Human Comedy or La Comedie humaine 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Subash Maddipoti - | 2 Literature -- European They live in a place with "yellow down / Border'd with palm, and many a winding vale / And meadow, set with a slender galingale," and it is "A land of streams! some, like downward smoke." They are "mild-eyed and melancholy" a |
| The Lotos-Eaters 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Subash Maddipoti - | 7 Literature -- European Both Wounds in the Rain and Whilomville Stories appeared after he settled in England, where his numerous extramarital affairs destroyed his reputation back home in America. The Greco-Turkish War was the subject of his Active |
| Stephen Crane 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Subash Maddipoti - | 17 Literature -- European By its conclusion the title character's daughter is married to the governor of Mitylene, and the title character is reunited with his lost wife, the daughter of King Simonides. He had initially fled his homeland, leaving his |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Subash Maddipoti - | 20 Literature -- European Among the guises the title character assumes are Sinbad the Sailor; Busoni, whom he pretends to be to find news of father; and Lord Wilmore, as whom he effects various charitable deeds. He plans on allowing himself to be sho |
| The Count of Monte Cristo 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Swarthmore A and South Carolina - | 2 Literature -- European At the time of his death he was at work on the tragedy Demetrius, having already completed such works in that genre as Maria Stuart and The Bride from Messina. His The Defection of Netherlands garnered him a university chair |
| Friedrich Schiller 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Swarthmore A and South Carolina - | 7 Literature -- European Among his poetic works inspired by women are Concerning Famous Women and The Old Crow. The chief female inspiration for these works is thought to have been Maria d'Aquino, who could have been the ideal woman Fiammetta that he |
| Giovanni Boccaccio 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Swarthmore A and South Carolina - | 16 Literature -- European Among the minor speaking roles are those of the faithful servant Adam and Hymen, the god of marriage, who conducts the four marriages that end this work. Two of those marriages involve the women Audrey and Phoebe, the latter |
| As You Like It 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M and Florida B - | 6 Literature -- European In Love's Labour's Lost it is the name of one of the Princess' attendants, who falls in love with Lord Dumaine, and in Henry V it is the name of the daughter of the king of France. A more famous character by this name is give |
| Katherine 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M and Florida B - | 18 Literature -- European He is made a Doctor of Jovial Science after he impresses his father and later finds himself in the midst of the Cake-Peddler's War. By then he has learned more than 217 games and spent ten years on Latin grammar under the tu |
| Gargantua 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M and Florida B - | 23 Literature -- European It took its name from the alternate title for the play Confusion. Leading poetic examples of this movement include the work of J.M. Lenz and Burger's ballad of "Lenore." Perhaps the greatest influence upon it was the philos |
| Sturm und Drang (prompt on early buzz of "storm and stress") 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA and Florida C - | 4 Literature -- European This work's contempt for the protagonist's colleagues was drawn from the author's time at the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute. A common motif is the central family's search for a maid who won't quit, though the family |
| The Metamorphosis 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA and Florida C - | 14 Literature -- European His first play, The Wild Gallant, was a failure when first presented, but he soon found more success with The Indian Queen. With his Panegyric on the Coronation and Astraea Redux he celebrated Charles II, but religious diffe |
| John Dryden 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA and Florida C - | 18 Literature -- European Wounded ten times during the Sepoy Rebellion, this resident of Bundelkund left his Indian wife and two children for the solace of a remote Pacific Island. Discovered by two Frenchmen and harpooner * Ned Land after an attack o |
| Captain Nemo (accept Prince Dakkar before *) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 7 Literature -- European Among the uses of anticlimax in this poem is the couplet "Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey,/Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea." The protagonist is given a bag of sighs and tears in order to continue |
| The Rape of the Lock 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 12 Literature -- European In a symbolic section of this book, eels swarm over the rotting head of a horse and toy shop owner Sigismund Markus is ejected from a cemetery. The sight of a moth flapping its wings against a light bulb becomes the protagon |
| The Tin Drum or Die Blechtrommel 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Yaphe - | 1 Literature -- European His short poems include the Ruins of Rome and Visions of the World's Vanity, which are collected among his Complaints. He instructed the "sweet Thames" to "run softly" until he ends his song in one of his major poems, while he |
| Edmund Spenser 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Yaphe - | 11 Literature -- European At the opening of this work, Richard Enfield and Mr. Utterson encounter an empty building while taking their usual Sunday walk, which reminds Enfield that he saw a man trample a child in its doorway. The man who trampled that |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Yaphe - | 14 Literature -- European After a hastily-called meeting is held in this work, the manager of a hospital is told to give his patients clean nightcaps, and he decides to place Latin signs describing the patients' illnesses over their sickbeds. Later, t |
| The Inspector General (accept The Government Inspector or Revizor) 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A, NC State, and Florida B - | 7 Literature -- European A pivotal moment in this work occurs when the writer Bergotte dies during an exhibition of Vermeer. The protagonist recalls his childhood when he takes Francois the Waif off the shelf at a party hosted by Gilberte [jeel-behrt] |
| Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time (accept ? La Recherche Du Temps Perdu) 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A, NC State, and Florida B - | 17 Literature -- European After remarking that there's "husbandry in heaven", this character gives a diamond to the title character of the play in which he appears. In the first scene of Act 3 of the play in which he appears, this character decides to |
| Banquo 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by FSU A, Michigan B, and South Carolina A - | 5 Literature -- European This poem mentions hedgerows which are "hardly hedgerows" but "little lines / Of sportive wood run wild," which are seen by the speaker as he sits under a "dark sycamore." Some "steep and lofty cliffs" impress upon the poet "t |
| "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour" 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by FSU A, Michigan B, and South Carolina A - | 10 Literature -- European He used the pseudonym N. W. Clerk for a book written about the illness of his wife, A Grief Observed. He collaborated with literary critic E. M. W. Tillyard on the book The Personal Heresy, while his own works of literary cri |
| Clive Staples Lewis 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by FSU A, Michigan B, and South Carolina A - | 16 Literature -- European The Lord Chamberlain refused a license for the second play he tried to publish because it contained Biblical characters. This slight led him to contemplate changing to French citizenship, and although he did not do so, that p |
| Oscar Wilde 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by FSU A, Michigan B, and South Carolina A - | 19 Literature -- European The only character that is constantly cheerful in this work is a servant boy named Gerasim. One of the title character's close friends meets a colleague named Schwarz, who winks at him and tries to arrange an evening game of |
| "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" or "Smert Ivana Ilyicha" 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Grinnell Lyon, Chicago E, UBC A, Florida A, and Penn - | 2 Literature -- European He noted that "Lovers lying two and two / Ask not whom they sleep beside" when they die and join the "nation that is not" in his "When I Watch the Living Meet." He notes that the "stuff of life to knit" him blew hither from th |
| Alfred Edward Housman 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Grinnell Lyon, Chicago E, UBC A, Florida A, and Penn - | 9 Literature -- European The narrator of this work uses an analogy of hitting a wall to differentiate between the ways intellectual men and direct men enact revenge. During an episode of fever, the narrator visits his superior Anton and sits in silenc |
| Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld or Zapiski iz podpolya 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Grinnell Lyon, Chicago E, UBC A, Florida A, and Penn - | 23 Literature -- European This author wrote about an insurance clerk named George Bowling in a novel published just before the outbreak of World War II, Coming Up For Air. In a book commissioned by Victor Gollancz for the Left Book Club, he wrote abou |
| George Orwell (accept Eric Blair) 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A, Williams A, Alfred, Southeastern, Carleton B, UTC B - | 19 Literature -- European He wrote that "poets are far rarer births than kings" at the beginning of a poem dedicated to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, while he claimed that "Venus' ceston every line you make" at the end of a sonnet "to the most noble |
| Ben Jonson 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A, Williams A, Alfred, Southeastern, Carleton B, UTC B - | 22 Literature -- European One of this man's works features a painter named Einar, his wife Agnes, and a gypsy girl named Gerd who mades fun of the titular priest. Many of this man's title characters are clergymen, including one that vows to cure the w |
| Henrik Ibsen 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky C and Grinnell Vigeland and Northwestern B and UCLA novice - | 13 Literature -- European In one of this man's novels, the main character is visiting his aunt Mrs. Failing when he learns that he has a half-brother, Stephen Wonham. Later, that main character marries Agnes Pembroke but dies before his story collecti |
| Edward Morgan Forster 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Leo Wolpert - | 4 Literature -- European English author David Garnett claimed this man taught him to sail using a laundry hamper with sails made of sheets. He defended his homeland in the essay "The Crime of Partition," and his ethnicity is shared by the peasant Yank |
| Joseph Conrad [or JĆ³sef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Leo Wolpert - | 13 Literature -- European He participates in a 12-year feud after being offended by the sound of singing. His killer boasts of having killed nicors at night, and wears armor fashioned by Wayland the smith. He is immune to ordinary swords, but he is be |
| Grendel 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by LSU, MIT, and UNC - | 3 Literature -- European In one of his works, Lenny and Joey hit on Ruth soon after she visits the home of her husband Teddy, who in the end decides to leave Ruth to his family so that they can turn her into a prostitute. In another of his works, Asto |
| Harold Pinter 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by LSU, MIT, and UNC - | 7 Literature -- European After the death of his aunt Drusilla, the title character of this novel moves with his lover to Aldbrickham, where they are later joined by the title character's son. Earlier, the title character had persuaded his cousin, who |
| Jude the Obscure 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by LSU, MIT, and UNC - | 17 Literature -- European In one of this man's works, the title character is charged with deleting the word God from 2 hours worth of radio programs, only to reinsert them into a later broadcast of an atheist. His stories include one about a professio |
| Heinrich Bƶll 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 11 Literature -- European Mark van Doren dubs him a "commonplace cad" and blames his stubbornness for audience coldness towards the play in which he appears. Before undertaking a journey to France, his mother advises him to "Love all, trust a few, do |
| Bertram 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan X - | 9 Literature -- European At one point in this novel a woman is comforted by hearing her husband recite "The Charge of the Light Brigade." At another stage of the work, the slicing of a fish's flesh to provide bait creates a metaphor for the cruelness |
| To The Lighthouse 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan X - | 13 Literature -- European After his friend Henry Thrale died, this man was outraged when Thrale's widow Hester married an Italian music teacher named Piozzi. In that same year, 1781, a collection of 52 lives of British poets written by this man was pu |
| Samuel Johnson 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan X - | 23 Literature -- European This author asked "wouldn't it be simpler if the government simply dissolved the people and elected another?" in "The Solution" and followed up a major success with the sub-par Happy End. He worked on the Hollywood screenplay |
| Bertolt Brecht 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A, GWU, and Rose Hulman - | 4 Literature -- European The death of Grischa, who never appears onstage, catalyzes the events of this play. One of the characters turns down a lucrative position at a bank in favor of a life spent munching candy and contemplating imaginary billiards |
| The Cherry Orchard or Vishnyovy sad 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A, GWU, and Rose Hulman - | 9 Literature -- European The prose preface to this work quotes ten lines from "The Picture," which end with a passage about some "fragments dim of lovely forms" which come "trembling back, unite, and now once more / The pool becomes a mirror." The po |
| "Kubla Khan" 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A, GWU, and Rose Hulman - | 13 Literature -- European In one of this man's works, a young musician boards the boat of an elderly helmsman only to become the helmsman himself. That story, "Flute Dream," is one of this man's many fairy tales, which include "The Dwarf" and "Dream |
| Hermann Hesse 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers and CMU - | 8 Literature -- European The author may have been inspired by Spenser's Florimel in writing this poem. In a letter to his brother George, the author explained why the original poem's 7th stanza contained four kisses, although in the published version |
| "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by South Carolina A, Yale A, Grinnell Driscoll, Chicago D, and Florida D - | 3 Literature -- European The title character of this work is tricked into going to Mrs. Sinclair's house, though she expects to go elsewhere while waiting for Colonel Morden. After receiving some bad news from her friend Miss Howe, the protagonist dre |
| Clarissa 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by South Carolina A, Yale A, Grinnell Driscoll, Chicago D, and Florida D - | 11 Literature -- European This man wrote "First was the world as one great cymbal made / Where jarring winds to infant Nature played" at the beginning of his poem "Music's Empire." He instructed the reader to "see with what simplicity / The nymph begi |
| Andrew Marvell 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by South Carolina A, Yale A, Grinnell Driscoll, Chicago D, and Florida D - | 16 Literature -- European At one point in this novel, an old woman reveals herself to be the daughter of Pope Urban X and the Princess of Palestrina. That revelation occurs on a boat headed to Paraguay, where the protagonist hopes to be able to fight |
| Candide 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M, Swarthmore, and Illinois B - | 9 Literature -- European He gained the king's favor with a satirical attack on the Jesuits entitled Ignatius His Conclave. He fell out of favor with his first patron, Sir Thomas Egerton, after marrying a young girl who was Egerton's ward, Ann Moore. T |
| John Donne 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M, Swarthmore, and Illinois B - | 23 Literature -- European Moliere based part of his The Cheats of Scapin on this man's The Pedant Imitated. While studying under the mathematician Gassendi, he began to write fantastical stories of trips to the moon, and that extraterrestrial theme wa |
| Cyrano de Bergerac 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA - | 9 Literature -- European Stage directions in one of this man's dramas instruct the title character, an aging monarch, to stand up and fall over repeatedly "in the manner of a tragic Punch and Judy show." The title character of that play, Exit the King |
| Eugene Ionesco 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA - | 14 Literature -- European At one point in this novel, while stranded in the north midland moors, the protagonist adopts the surname Elliot after meeting St. John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana. The protagonist is initially in the charge of Mrs. |
| Jane Eyre 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA - | 22 Literature -- European He posits that his followers are distinguished by belief in the maxim "to thyself be enough." He receives a half-penny for tobacco at the end of the play, when he announces that his daughter has married Trond of the Valfjeld. |
| The Mountain King [or Dovregubben; accept Old Man of the Dovre or similar answers before "Dovre" is read; accept King of the Trolls or similar answers before "trolls" is read] 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UT-Austin, Chicago B, Yale B, Florida C, and La | 20 Literature -- European In Woody Allen's short story The Kugelmass Episode, the title character is transported through a cabinet in Brooklyn to the estate of this novel's title character. In Chapter 21, the protagonist buys a riding whip from Lhereu |
| Madame Bovary 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Vanderbilt A, Georgia Tech A, and Tulsa - | 13 Literature -- European In a petition included in the third printing, the author claimed that "the duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them." Near the beginning of Act Two, the father tries to convince his daughter to marry the title charact |
| Tartuffe 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Vanderbilt A, Georgia Tech A, and Tulsa - | 15 Literature -- European He stated "Two names there are," one of which is "That which the Hebrew reads / With his soul only," the other of which is "Shakespeare," in his sonnet "The Names," while he began the sonnet "Now" with the line "Out of your w |
| Robert Browning 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Vanderbilt A, Georgia Tech A, and Tulsa - | 18 Literature -- European In Haruki Murakami's novel Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, the protagonist reads a novel by this man about an impoverished nobleman during his convalescence at home. Many of his earlier works, like the autobio |
| Ivan Turgenev 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A - | 14 Literature -- European In one scene of Max Frisch's The Chinese Wall, this character is interrupted in her bedroom by a tuxedo-wearing waiter. Miriam Rooth portrays this character on stage in Henry James' The Tragic Muse, and Sibyl Vane's acting as |
| Juliet Capulet 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A - | 18 Literature -- European One character in this work is enthralled by Volney's Ruins of Empires, which he hears Felix read to Safie. The protagonist of this work gazes upon the portrait of his mother as Caroline Beaufort kneeling by her father's coffi |
| Frankenstein 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A, Rochester A, and UGA C - | 5 Literature -- European Dr. Kennedy relates the story of Yanko Goorall's courtship of the title character of one of this man's short stories. The unnamed narrator disbelieves a Northman's assertions that he's not working with the enemy in "The Tale," |
| Joseph Conrad 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A, Rochester A, and UGA C - | 7 Literature -- European One of this man's plays concerns the daughter of the innkeeper Peter Sabouroff along with the subtitular characters, which include Peter, Alexis, and Professor Marfa. "The Birthday of the Infanta" and "The Fisherman and his So |
| Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A, Rochester A, and UGA C - | 12 Literature -- European He refuses to finish a story involving a shepherd who has to cross a river with a herd of goats. While trying to examine some teeth, he is vomited on, and earlier, he is beaten by two monks after he tries to rob one. After a |
| Sancho and/or Panza 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Drake A, MIT B, and Georgia Tech B - | 11 Literature -- European Gerard de Nerval's poem "El Desdichado" takes its title from the motto of a character in this work, and Charles Chesnutt's House Behind the Cedars is a retelling of it. Hilarity ensues when two characters try to ask Gurth an |
| Ivanhoe 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Drake A, MIT B, and Georgia Tech B - | 18 Literature -- European In one work by this man the title characters assault a man with checkered dish towels and clowns' slapsticks, while another play features Betty, Yetta, and Henry trapped in a house due to the title weather phenomenon. A Germ |
| Gunther Wilhelm Grass 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia Tech A, Oklahoma A, and Florida B - | 12 Literature -- European In one of his nonfiction works, he discusses a misheard threat which caused him to believe that a certain Mrs. Form periodically visited his primary school to beat the chidren. The author of the poetry collection Mice throws |
| George Orwell 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia Tech A, Oklahoma A, and Florida B - | 14 Literature -- European One character's marriage to Molly Farren proves problematic in this novel after her body is found at the end of a trail of footprints. The sale of the horse Wildfire leads to its rider's death in a quarry, and the location of |
| Silas Marner 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia Tech A, Oklahoma A, and Florida B - | 16 Literature -- European The protagonist of this story tries to avoid an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out of place as he shouts "Our very best to your sweetheart!" That old man resembles other characters, including a street entertainer and a |
| "Death in Venice" or "Der Tod in Venedig" 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harding A - | 3 Literature -- European In a play by this man subtitled "The Double Discovery," rumors of a plot to kill King Sancho turn out to be false, which legalizes the marriage between Leonora and Torrismond. A commemorative object made in Poland is the titl |
| John Dryden 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harding A - | 4 Literature -- European This poem's first line is echoed at the beginning of Wilfred Owen's poem "Exposure," and its sixth and seventh stanzas are quoted during Paul Hogan's dirge in Act II of A Moon for the Misbegotten. The author evokes several syn |
| "Ode to a Nightingale" 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harding A - | 19 Literature -- European The protagonist of this novel ridicules an engraving of Goethe he sees on the wall of an old colleague's home after they defame an anti-war column he had written. After leaving he meets a girl who mocks his love of Mozart du |
| Steppenwolf 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Illinois B - | 7 Literature -- European In the publisher's note to this book he informs the reader that the author moved from Redriff to a house near Newark to avoid his fans, and the title page originally displayed a portrait of that author with the caption "Splend |
| Gulliver's Travels 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Illinois B - | 20 Literature -- European One of his works contains an epigram from W.B. Yeats' play The King's Threshold, and in one of his poems he remarks that "I, too, saw God through mud" and that "merry it was to laugh there." He laments the sun's inability to |
| Wilfred Owen 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B, Maryland B, and Oklahoma B - | 4 Literature -- European In one of this man's novels, a fox ravaging poultry represents Henry Grenfel's intrusion in the lives of Nellie March and Jill Banford, while another features the complex relationship between Richard and Harriet Somers. An an |
| D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B, Maryland B, and Oklahoma B - | 9 Literature -- European One of this work's protagonist's liaisons is ended by an anonymous letter from a poorhouse manager after his best friend tries to entice him into the lumber business. A pivotal moment in the novel occurs as a result of a laws |
| The Red and the Black (accept: Le Rouge et le Noir, The Scarlet and the Black) 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B, Maryland B, and Oklahoma B - | 13 Literature -- European In a notable essay by this man he criticizes English manners through the fictitious letters of a Chinese gentleman, Lien Chi Altangi. In one poem he attacks figures such as Smiglecus and Aristotle, saying they have "but ill |
| Oliver Goldsmith 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B, Maryland B, and Oklahoma B - | 16 Literature -- European This author tells the title character of one of his poems that "The meteors of a mimic day/Shall flash upon thine eyes" after promising to "build of ice thy winter home." He exhorts his reader to "Weep not that the world cha |
| William Cullen Bryant 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A and Florida A - | 6 Literature -- European In one story by this author, Kasparson murders Cardinal Hamilchar von Sehestedt and steals his identity. That story, "The Deluge at Norderney," is grouped with other works such as a story in which a young Dane eventually fight |
| Isak Dinesen [or Karen von Blixen-Finecke] 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A and Florida A - | 19 Literature -- European He refers to the highway as "my chief Parnassus" in one of his poems, and he exhorts eternal love to "maintain thy life in me" in another. The poet hears the titular "Voices at the Window" in the dark night in a poem about a |
| Sir Philip Sidney 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A and Florida A - | 20 Literature -- European Richard O'Connell postulates that the character Matilde in Manuel de Gorostiza's Contigo, Pan y Cebolla is based on an heiress in this play. One character irrationally fears that that heiress's cousin could be harmed by "the |
| The Rivals 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky B, South Carolina A, and Dartmouth B - | 4 Literature -- European One work by this author moves backward in time to chronicle the cuckoldry of Robert by Emma with Roger and Jerry. The friendship between Pete, Mark, and Len is disrupted by Virginia in one of his works, while Dr. Hornby wakes |
| Harold Pinter 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky B, South Carolina A, and Dartmouth B - | 9 Literature -- European He bites his arm and draws blood into his mouth in order to announce a sight which seems to put ribs over the sun. Soon after, he is cursed by all two hundred of his companions and forced to spend a week with their dead bodies |
| the Ancient Mariner 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky B, South Carolina A, and Dartmouth B - | 20 Literature -- European Denise falls in love with the decadent department store owner Octave in his The Delight of the Ladies, while speculation and land hunger feature prominently in his works The Prey and The Earth. The evil effects of alcoholism |
| Emile Zola 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 5 Literature -- European In one of this author's works, the feminist Bertha attempts to humiliate her artist husband with the help of Abel. The arrival of Eleonora helps to redeem the Heyst family in a play set on a certain holiday. The Baron and Bar |
| August Strindberg 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan A and Georgia A - | 1 Literature -- European This man's only drama concerns a Greek scientist who comes to Rome bearing the inventions of the steam engine, gun powder, and the printing press and was adapted from the author's short story "Envoy Extraordinairy." The peder |
| William Golding 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan A and Georgia A - | 11 Literature -- European In one of his poems this man writes that his shadow "glides in silence over the watercourse" and "moves like a huge violet-colored mosquito." He claims he will "be a free sign of oppressed norms on the neck of the stiff branc |
| Federico Garcia Lorca 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan A and Georgia A - | 18 Literature -- European Susanne Wood and Marshall Grossman have written extensively about the relationship of a poem by Amelia Lanyer to one of this man's famous works. A monologue from one of this man's works describes a woman who makes it a point |
| Ben Jonson 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rochester B, Chicago B, UCLA B, and Yale B - | 4 Literature -- European In the introduction to this novel the author describes himself as the "manager of the performance" and refers to his characters as puppets. The two main characters attend an institution that has been honored by the presence o |
| Vanity Fair 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rochester B, Chicago B, UCLA B, and Yale B - | 6 Literature -- European By refusing a bunch of Muscatel grapes the protagonist rejects his former love, who eventually flees with her son Albert. His servant Haidee confronts Albert's father about his betrayal of Ali Pasha, which leads to his suicid |
| The Count of Monte Cristo or Le Comte de Monte Cristo 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rochester B, Chicago B, UCLA B, and Yale B - | 7 Literature -- European A line from one of this man's poems forms the title of a book subtitled "Studies in the Structure of Poetry" by Cleanth Brooks. He ponders about "what thou and I/Did, till we loved" in a poem in which he claims "My face in th |
| John Donne 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rochester B, Chicago B, UCLA B, and Yale B - | 20 Literature -- European Tomasso Landolfi wrote a novel in which this man is married to a balloon doll named Caracas. In one story by this man a theology student is terrorized by a witch over whom he refuses to read last rites, which results in the |
| Nikolai Gogol 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick A - | 8 Literature -- European At one point in this work the protagonist meets Rosa Dartle, who bears the scar given her by a man who, along with Tommy Traddles, was the protagonist's best friend at Salem House. He goes to work for his stepfather and his p |
| David Copperfield 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick A - | 12 Literature -- European In a novel by Pia Pera the title character of this work is given a notebook so that she can communicate with her dead father Gerald. Two characters are referenced respectively as "Schlegel" and "Hegel" in comparison to a wom |
| Lolita (or Dolores Haze) (The update refers to Pia Pera's Lo's Diary.) 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick A - | 15 Literature -- European In his letter to this work's addressee the author advises her to consult the book Le Comte de Gabalis. The main plot in this work is partially precipitated by the discovery of a letter sitting next to "puffs, powders," and " |
| The Rape of the Lock 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Mike Sorice - | 5 Literature -- European Clark and Wright hold that this work contains interpolations with passages by Middleton, but this is doubtful. Derek Jacobi's 1998 critical essay on this play stems from 1993 work with Cheryl Cambell, while a more classic crit |
| MacBeth 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Mike Sorice - | 17 Literature -- European Two of this person's best-known works are unfinished, in one case because the story of how Sir Leoline handles the demonic lesbian Geraldine was never completed and in the other case because a man from Porlock interrupted the |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 11 Literature -- European A comet hits Cadiz in this man's play about Victoria and Diego, while Dora resolves to follow Kaliayev's fate after he is executed for bombing the Grand Duke in The Just Assassins. Other dramas include "The Possessed" and "Th |
| Albert Camus 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 15 Literature -- European In one of this man's poems he begs a nightingale to "timely sing, ere the rude Bird of Hate/Foretell my hopeless doom" and in his eleventh sonnet he references another of his works, the Tetrachordon. In his only play an "att |
| John Milton 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 19 Literature -- European Francois Nodot and Jose Marchena are the two most prominent forgers of the lost portions of this work. The main character sings a hymn to a deity "whom Lydians, far and wide adore" after which he is accosted by Oenothea. Th |
| The Satyricon 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner and Brown - | 15 Literature -- European An attempt at seduction in this story goes awry when a girl protests that she is wearing the clothes of mourning, and her suitor suggests that she simply remove her dress. Following an argument over whether the only available |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author [or Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore: Commedia da fare] 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A, Florida Metropolitan A, and Andrew Yaphe - | 8 Literature -- European Act Three of this work opens with Damis and Dorine arguing about Damis's plan to eavesdrop at a conversation between Damis's stepmother and the title character. Dorine is the servant of Mariane, who is Damis's sister and who |
| Tartuffe 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A, Florida Metropolitan A, and Andrew Yaphe - | 9 Literature -- European One sonnet addressed to this individual describes him as a "lone star whose light did shine / On some frail bark in winter's midnight roar." That sonnet, which refers to him as a "Poet of Nature," was written by Percy Bysshe |
| William Wordsworth 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A, Florida Metropolitan A, and Andrew Yaphe - | 15 Literature -- European In one of this man's stories, Ivan Vasilyevich describes how he fell out of love with a woman named Varenka after he saw her father, a colonel, ordering his troops to beat a Tartar who had deserted. In another of his stories |
| Leo Tolstoy 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Chicago C - | 16 Literature -- European Two characters in this work are framed for murder after a foreigner tells them he has trapped a panther, leading them to a overgrown ditch near a bag of gold. One of those youths recognizes a dead body in the ditch by the ri |
| Titus Andronicus 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Chicago C - | 18 Literature -- European One of his plays, subtitled "Or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd," is an adaptation of Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, while in another Valentine and Wilding vie for the hand of Bellaria, who eventually marries Veromil. His ob |
| Henry Fielding 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 3 Literature -- European The protagonist's mother is conceived when the fugitive Joseph Koljaiczek takes refuge from constables under a woman's skirt in a potato field. She dies after a dead horse's head full of eels inspires her to eat only fish. Its |
| The Tin Drum (or Die Blechtrommel) 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 7 Literature -- European One character in this work recalls that a famous author had to flee from the Eiffel Tower as it was about to crush him by its vulgarity. After learning that Masha is going to marry the schoolmaster Medvedenko, one character is |
| The Seagull or Chayka 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 9 Literature -- European Ones by Thomas Wyatt include "Like to these unmeasurable mountains" and "Whoso List to Hunt." The author of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge wrote ones dedicated to Vera Knoop, and a notable series of them is addressed to |
| sonnets [accept Sonnets to Orpheus, Shakespeare's Sonnets, or Sonnets from the Portuguese] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 21 Literature -- European A character in this work sings of a cook who beats a dog to death with a ladle for stealing a breadcrust, and that character stinks of garlic, which he eats for the health of his kidneys. One character provides another some c |
| Waiting for Godot [or En Attendant Godot] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Boston University and Georgia B - | 1 Literature -- European This author's attacks on the British government in plays like Pasquin and The Historical Register prompted the passage of the Theatrical Licensing Act. This author contrasted Mr. and Mrs. Heartfree with the title "great man" i |
| Henry Fielding 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Boston University and Georgia B - | 5 Literature -- European At the opening of this work, the protagonist reads quotes of scriptural texts on the faƧade of a Byzantine mortuary chapel before encountering a man who inspires him to go to distant places. Later, the protagonist purchases ov |
| Death in Venice or Der Tƶd in Vendig 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Boston University and Georgia B - | 10 Literature -- European This author wrote about Schoner strangling his captain in the short story "The Prussian Officer". His longer works include one about Kate Leslie's encounter with Don Cipriano during the Mexican Revolution, as well as one abou |
| D. H. Lawrence 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Brandeis and Vanderbilt A - | 3 Literature -- European In the third section of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel becomes enthralled with the Duchesse de Guermantes while going to see a work by this author. In one of this author's plays, the title king dies after allowing his son Xiph |
| Jean Racine 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Brandeis and Vanderbilt A - | 20 Literature -- European At the end of the work in which this character appears, her sister Liza-Lu sees her dead as the result of a crime at The Herons in Sandbourne. She has a child whom she names Sorrow after being either seduced or raped by her s |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles [or Tess Durbeyfield] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Carnegie Mellon - | 5 Literature -- European He wrote that "Poor Labour sweet in sleep was locked" in a poem addressed to "Poor naked wretches" that "bide the pelting of this pitiless storm," titled "A Winter Night." The speaker of one of his poems asks God to destroy "g |
| Robert Burns 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Carnegie Mellon - | 20 Literature -- European In one of this man's works, the doctor reports to Marguerite and Marie, wives of the title character, that Mars and Saturn have collided and exploded. In addition to Exit the King, this author wrote about Marie, the Maid, rem |
| EugĆØne Ionesco 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Carnegie Mellon - | 22 Literature -- European This author argued that Satan was responsible for the crusades in The Political History of the Devil. One of this author's characters wears a Turkish dress to seduce a jeweler on the advice of her servant Amy. Along with that |
| Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A, Drake A, UNC A - | 1 Literature -- European A tense moment in this novel comes when a band in Piccadilly nervously awaits the arrival of the title character, who tells the protagonist that he wishes to be "among the millions." Minor characters in this novel include the |
| Dracula 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A, Drake A, UNC A - | 6 Literature -- European This author explained his philosophy of writing in The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts and wrote about two ƩmigrƩs meeting in a Paris airport in his recent novel Ignorance. He wrote a fictional biography of the poet Jaromil i |
| Milan Kundera 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A, Drake A, UNC A - | 18 Literature -- European This novel was written as a response to the idealism of R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island. One character in this novel throws stones at Henry, but intentionally misses. A climactic event in this novel occurs at Castle Rock, |
| Lord of the Flies 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A, Drake A, UNC A - | 23 Literature -- European This work is often published with prefatory letters between such figures as Guillaume BudƩ, Thomas Lupset, Jerome Busleiden, and Peter Giles, one of which blames an ill-timed cough for difficulty in locating the title entity. |
| Utopia 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Columbia and South Carolina - | 8 Literature -- European One of the narrators is scolded for interrupting a reading lesson with the song "Fairy Annie's Wedding," while the other narrator takes a trip to the chapel of Gimmerden Sough to hear a sermon by Jabez Branderham in a dream. A |
| Wuthering Heights 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Columbia and South Carolina - | 15 Literature -- European In the third section, the speaker states that the title character's "soul transpires / At every pore with instant fires." The poet warns of "Deserts of vast eternity," and states that his "vegetable love should grow / Faster |
| "To His Coy Mistress" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Columbia and South Carolina - | 23 Literature -- European The protagonist of this work confides to another character that he had hoped to send her to the Conservatory. Oversleeping his alarm by two and a half hours, the protagonist of this work tries to roll out of bed to go to work |
| "The Metamorphosis" or "Die Verwandlung" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth B - | 5 Literature -- European This author argued that the Ring cycle was an allegory about industrial exploitation in The Perfect Wagnerite. Anthony Anderson saves the life of Dick Dudgeon in this author's only play set in America, The Devil's Disciple. He |
| George Bernard Shaw 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth B - | 17 Literature -- European This play opens as Miss Juliana enters her nephew's house, followed by the servant Bertha, who places a bouquet of flowers on the piano. Having returned from her honeymoon, the title character reads the attached card, which r |
| Hedda Gabler 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth B - | 21 Literature -- European The protagonist of this work dreams about the last time he saw his mother and sister, when he stole their chocolate and ran away. Later on, two characters repeat "We are the dead" before the same words come from a picture of |
| 1984 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by ACF Editors and California-Irvine - | 2 Literature -- European A "military medical commission" digs up a corpse and marches it with fanfare through a crowd in this author's poem "The Legend of the Dead Soldier." A wealthy merchant unjustly shoots his servant while crossing the Yahi Desert |
| Bertolt Brecht 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by ACF Editors and California-Irvine - | |
| Guy de Maupassant 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida State A - | 19 Literature -- European One character in this novel is initially uninterested in Riemann surface tennis and obstacle golf, and loses social standing when the protagonist refuses to appear before the Arch-Community Songster. Beginning with an explana |
| Brave New World 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A, Dartmouth A, and UNC B - | 1 Literature -- European The title character of this work has a dream in which he drinks milk from the breast of his best friend, who had just turned into a woman. In another dream, he releases a songbird from its golden cage and throws it out onto th |
| Siddhartha 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A, Dartmouth A, and UNC B - | 8 Literature -- European Martin Esslin analyzed the works of this author in The Peopled Wound. In one of this author's plays, Flora seduces a Matchseller who eventually replaces her husband Edward. In addition to A Slight Ache, this author wrote a pla |
| Harold Pinter 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 4 Literature -- European This author wrote that love "makes one little room [of] everywhere" in "The Good-Morrow." This poet argued that "Here upon earth, we're kings, and none but we / Can be such kings, nor of such subjects be" in "The Anniversary" |
| John Donne 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 12 Literature -- European Because the mother of the protagonist of this work believes some names are too poor and others unheard of, her son is thus named after his father, whereupon the protagonist cries and makes a grimace. Despite being mocked by h |
| "The Overcoat" or "The Cloak" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 16 Literature -- European In this novel's third section, Mrs. Skiffins marries Wemmick, and the protagonist is nearly killed by Orlick. One character in this novel marries the abusive nobleman Bentley Drummle after continually warning the protagonist |
| Great Expectations 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 23 Literature -- European One of minor character in this play is Filipote, a servant to Madame Pernelle, who criticizes all members of the household except for the title character. While Madame Pernelle's son also shares her admiration, the wise serva |
| Tartuffe 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 9 Literature -- European The protagonist of this work enjoys the prelude to Wagner's Tannhauser, believing that it reflects the tragedy of his own soul. He attempts to console himself by dating Hetty Merton, whose heart he does not break, unlike that |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 12 Literature -- European One character in this work marries a man from the army some time after the Larins celebrate her sister's name day. Zaretsky has several chances to prevent a duel between the title character and a minor poet, the latter of who |
| Eugene Onegin [accept Yevgeny Onegin] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 22 Literature -- European The speaker of one poem in this collection sees "the land of lost content" after his heart is affected by "air that kills." The speaker of another poem in it hears one church bell tolling his death after remembering lying wit |
| A Shropshire Lad 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Trygve Meade - | 5 Literature -- European After setting out a plate of cucumber sandwiches, one character in this work notes that champagne in married households is rarely of a first-rate brand. Later on, another character appears at a Hertfordshire manor to announce |
| The Importance of Being Earnest 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Trygve Meade - | 21 Literature -- European In this literary collection, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, and five other artists, are described in the work titled "The Beacons," while the work "Benediction" describes its author's feelings of rejection after his mother remarrie |
| The Flowers of Evil or Les Fleurs du Mal 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 8 Literature -- European The speaker laments that he has not skill in speech, and he wonders how he "could have made [his] will quite clear" while referencing someone who had "exceed[ed] the mark." The title figure is described as possessing a "half-f |
| "My Last Duchess" 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick - | 12 Literature -- European In one of this author's short stories, Tina Sarti's betrayal by Anthony Wybrow causes her to rekindle her love of music with the title vicar. One of this author's title characters competes with Harold Transome for the hand of |
| George Eliot [accept Mary Ann Evans] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick - | 17 Literature -- European In 1911, Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted this work for the Salzburg Festival, and according to E. R. Tigg, it is largely a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc. One character uses the excuse of having a cramp in his toe to |
| Everyman 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick - | 20 Literature -- European This character avoids capture by the Oreillons when he proves that he is not a Jesuit. A slave-owner steals a jewel-encrusted sheep from him, but he recovers it when that slave-owner's ship is sunk, and he later loses some of |
| Candide 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 7 Literature -- European This author asked the Lord to avenge "thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones / Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold" in his sonnet about the "Late Massacre in Piedmont." Another of his sonnets describes how soon "Time, the |
| John Milton 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 17 Literature -- European This author wrote about the psychological disintegration of Kayerts and Carlier in "An Outpost of Progress." He wrote that his task was "to make you hear, to make you feel...above all, to make you see" in the preface to his n |
| Joseph Conrad (or JĆ³sef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 22 Literature -- European This author wrote a retelling of John the Baptist's beheading in "Herodias," which appeared in his Three Tales, along with "Saint Julian" and "A Simple Heart." Hilarion and the Queen of Sheba are among those who entice the ti |
| Gustave Flaubert 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Tiebreakers - | 2 Literature -- European He meditates on a cobblestone thrown at his grandmother on her wedding day because she married a Catholic in his elegies, "Clearances," which are found in his collection Haw Lantern, while his other works include Wintering Out |
| Seamus Heaney 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Tiebreakers - | 5 Literature -- European One character in this play is wary of going to the city because he heard a story of a man dying from eating fifty pancakes. Another character attempts to dismiss the old maid Anfisa and tries to force refugee victims of a loca |
| The Three Sisters [or Tri sestry] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 8 Literature -- European The protagonist of this work earns a pile in a loaning business started with principle won from an essay contest. The protagonist was once beaten with a stump when he claimed that Byron was better than Tennyson, and gets in a |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 19 Literature -- European The Two Admirers attempt to get a peek at the title character in this man's work The Leader, and he wrote a work in which Jack and Roberta are ordered to go to "the hatching," The Future is in Eggs. One of his works sees the |
| Eugene Ionesco 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Brown - | 16 Literature -- European The protagonist of this novel created a richly patterned tapestry called Maia, a discourse on the theme of Mind and Art ranked with Schiller's Simple and Sentimental Poetry. Later, that protagonist drinks a glass of pomegrana |
| Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Brown - | 20 Literature -- European The title character of one of his poems sends "his Train / To take a House in Warwick Lane" before trying to seize the title character for "Pluto's hall." In addition to "Death and Daphne," he described man as "a topsy-turvy |
| Jonathan Swift 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Caltech and Langston - | 12 Literature -- European He attends a hunting party which ends early when Geoffrey Clouston accidentally shoots James, a sailor who was stalking this man after he heard a prostitute refer to him as "Prince Charming." His mother Margaret of Devereux d |
| Dorian Gray [prompt on partial name] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 3 Literature -- European One character in this novel is blackmailed by a man named John Barsad. Jerry Cruncher nicknames himself "resurrection man" because he steals fresh corpses to sell to medical students. One character is discovered spending nine |
| A Tale of Two Cities 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 9 Literature -- European One character has a dream of a chained bear being attacked by a greyhound, and Bramimonde changes her name to Juliana at the end of this work. Ivor and Samson are among "The Twelve Peers," while the meek Thierry miraculously d |
| The Song of Roland [or La Chanson de Roland] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A - | 5 Literature -- European The main narrative of this poem is interrupted by a "loud uproar" and "vesper bell" that bids the title character to pray, while he notes later that "He prayeth best, who loveth best/ All things both great and small." The titl |
| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A - | 14 Literature -- European One of this writer's narrators comments that woodcocks remind him of a mad woman who froze after being abandoned in a forest tied to her bed by vindictive soldiers, and a group of repentant prostitutes inspire an entire churc |
| Guy de Maupassant 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Eden Prairie High School - | 6 Literature -- European In one his stories a man eats a bewitched pellet that he stole from a museum, which allows him to understand animals. He wrote about Hans Giebenrath, who mysteriously drowns after he is sent home from the Maulbronn seminary in |
| Herman Hesse 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A - | 8 Literature -- European One of his protagonists refers to his sister as the "Dark Girl of Long Alley" and steals a gun from her Nazi lover to bury in a secret location. The title character of another work battles with the "fruit thieves," dies by fas |
| Italo Calvino 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A - | 18 Literature -- European The speaker compares the "shrill delight" of the title figure to moonbeams "Keen as the arrows / Of that silver sphere" which are transparent in light of the "white dawn," but although they are "hardly seen, we feel that it i |
| "To a Skylark" 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 5 Literature -- European One man in this work is offended when he cannot find the source of a name engraved on a cigarette case, and later quips that only relatives or creditors ring in a "Wagnerian manner" after his aunt finds that all of the cucumbe |
| The Importance of Being Earnest 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 17 Literature -- European He described art as an expression of human drive in his On the Aesthetic Education of Man. In one of his plays Eboli offers false testimony to the Duke of Alva against the title character, who is distraught because his belove |
| Friedrich von Schiller 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 12 Literature -- European This poet wrote about a figure, who "when he cried the little children died in the streets" in "Epitaph on a Tyrant." One of his poems asserts that the "The death of the poet was kept from his poems," and another poem juxtapo |
| Wystan Hugh Auden 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 19 Literature -- European In one section of this poem, it is noted that no "trembling harp," "tumbling hawk," or "swift horse" had "emptied the earth of entire peoples." Those lines come from its section named for the "Last Survivor," which is conside |
| Beowulf 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard C - | 11 Literature -- European A quote from this play about committing fornication that ends "the wench is dead" is used as the epigraph for T.S. Eliot's "The Portrait of a Lady." "Laws were then most sure/When, like the Draco's, they were writ in blood," |
| The Jew of Malta 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois B - | 1 Literature -- European In one of his novels, Florentine Vivier murders Lord Frederick, leaving her son Hyancinth to Miss Pynsent, and in another novel Mrs. Bread gives the title character evidence that Madame de Bellegarde murdered her husband, whic |
| Henry James 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois B - | 8 Literature -- European This poem discusses a bough of cherries that is broken in an orchard by an "officious fool," who is rewarded with "a blush at least," while earlier the speaker argues that strangers cannot understand "the depth and passion" of |
| "My Last Duchess" 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois B - | 12 Literature -- European The title character of this play asserts she wants one character to return with "vine-leaves in his hair" before threatening to burn another woman's hair off. One character buys a villa that once belonged to the Cabinet Membe |
| Hedda Gabler 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri S&T and Dartmouth B - | 3 Literature -- European In this work, the Island of Ennasins is inhabited by a race with noses shaped like the Ace of Clubs, and earlier a dispute in which the bakers of Lerne refuse to sell cakes to shepherds prompts an invasion by King Picrochole. |
| The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri S&T and Dartmouth B - | 9 Literature -- European Chapter 41 of this novel features a game where players re-arrange alphabet blocks to form words, and one character spells out the words "Blunder" and "Dixon" referring to another character's shady past. That character receives |
| Emma 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri S&T and Dartmouth B - | 19 Literature -- European He asserts "deep waves, what dreadful tales you could recite" in his poem "Oceano Nox," found in the collection Sunlight and Shadows. The "Comprachicos" deform Gwynplaine's face, giving him a permanent smirk in The Man Who La |
| Victor Hugo 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri - | 9 Literature -- European Oscar Wilde wrote a poem that begins, "the corn has turned from gray to red / Since first my spirit wandered forth" about this city "Unvisited," and Christina Light has her bust made by the sculptor Roderick Hudson in this cit |
| Rome [or Roma] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri - | 13 Literature -- European He wrote about Mrs. Placentia and Diaph Silkworm in a play about Lady Loadstone, The Magnetic Lady. In another play Dauphine tricks his uncle Morose into marrying Epicoene, who is actually a boy, while Captain Bobadill teache |
| Benjamin or Ben Jonson 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Missouri - | 19 Literature -- European In this novel, one character discovers that the legendarily pious invalid Madame Stahl stays in bed to hide her stubby legs. The title character is stunned to meet Sappho Sholtz, and earlier breaks into tears when the horse F |
| Anna Karenina 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by MIT A - | 10 Literature -- European One character in this work is mocked when Kat shouts "Change at Lohne" and attacks him with a bedcover when he is coming home from his favorite pub. One of the protagonist's friends mourns that he will never become head fores |
| All Quiet on the Western Front [or Im Westen nichts Neues] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by MIT A - | 13 Literature -- European In one of this author's works, Margery Meanwell grows up to become a schoolteacher. In another of his works, Edwin becomes a recluse beside the Tyne and Angelina must seek him dressed as a boy. In addition to "The History of |
| Oliver Goldsmith 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Penn A and Louisiana-Lafayette - | 9 Literature -- European In this novel, Lankes takes a coin from his left pocket and puts it in his right whenever he borrows a cigarette, and an attendant at the Maritime Museum commits suicide by impaling himself on the mast of the "Niobe" after fal |
| The Tin Drum [or Die Blechtrommel] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Penn A and Louisiana-Lafayette - | 14 Literature -- European In this poem's eighth stanza, a "funeral with plumes and lights" travels "through the silent nights," and the poem earlier discusses a place of "Four grey walls and four grey towers" that "overlook a space of flowers / And th |
| "The Lady of Shalott" 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A, Missouri State, and J.S. Reynolds - | 5 Literature -- European The title character of this novel forces Abel Whittle to come to work without his pants to punish him for tardiness, and later he is infuriated when the carnival he planned is rained out while the indoor dance organized by his |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A, Missouri State, and J.S. Reynolds - | 19 Literature -- European The title character of this novel is rebuked by a judge when he unsuccessfully attempts to acquit a peasant, who he knows is guilty of murder. The title character encounters a crazy man, who is gathering nosegays for his imag |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther [or Die Leiden des Jungen Werther] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCSD and Princeton A - | 4 Literature -- European One character in this novel gets her fiancƩe a gift of a turtle with her initials encrusted in diamonds on its shell. The protagonist meets two prostitutes, who he nicknames "The Death's Head" and "The Sickly Child," during hi |
| Brideshead Revisited 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCSD and Princeton A - | 8 Literature -- European In this play the gossiping neighbor Daphne is excoriated by Madame Pernelle, and later the maid Dorine is criticized by the righteous Laurent for concealing a handkerchief in between the pages of her Bible. A casket containing |
| Tartuffe 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Michigan - | 1 Literature -- European The speaker of this poem discusses the "gleams of half-extinguished thought" which makes "the picture of the mind revive again" and allows him to recognize the "still, sad music of humanity." The speaker hopes that another's p |
| "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Michigan - | 10 Literature -- European In one of his works Orual describes her sister Psyche's romance with Cupid, and another novel centers on Elwin Ransom's mission to Mars to stop Professor Weston from corrupting the new Adam and Eve. In addition to Till We Hav |
| Clive Staples Lewis 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Michigan - | 17 Literature -- European One work set in this country ends when the dog Aesop is shot by his owner Thomas Glahn, while the title character of a trilogy about this country assists in the murder of Eline to marry a knight in the first part entitled The |
| Norway Florida Atlantic - | 19 Literature -- World The title character of this work takes command of the treasury, declares the assumption of civil authority, and fights off an advance by the Scythians. Lampito, a Spartan, was the first to support the title character's plan, bu |
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| V(idiadhar) S(urajprassad) Naipaul Michigan A and Cornell - | 12 Literature -- World One of his teachers in college once told him of the importance of kissing in American culture, prompting him to practice on an oak tree. He had reluctantly enrolled in college because his goal of becoming a forest ranger require |
| Kenzaburo Oe Michigan B - | 5 Literature -- World This play begins with a nurse recounting and lamenting the events that have led to the events described. The title character gains sanctuary in Athens in exchange for a fertility drug for the king Aegeus, then escapes in a chario |
| Medea Stanford - | 9 Literature -- World Perhaps in anticipation of his death, this author posed in photographs as a shipwrecked sailor and St. Sebastian shot dead with arrows. Author of the dramas The Moon Like a Drawn Bow and My Friend Hitler, he is more famous for h |
| Yukio Mishima Stanford - | 23 Literature -- World This author's early travails contributed to his pseudonym, which means "the bitter one." Some of his works helped to found the socialist realism movement, including Queer People, Enemies, and The Last One. His first play, The |
| Maxim Gorky South Carolina and Texas A&M - | 15 Literature -- World As this novel opens, one main character is returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years. On the same plane is the other protagonist, an Indian film star who specializes in playing Hindu gods. After the plane is hija |
| The Satanic Verses 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - | 14 Literature -- World In one plot development, Mauricio Babilonia is paralyzed after being shot due to his tryst with Meme, whose outgoing nature leads her to invite 72 of her friends home from boarding school. The fortune-teller Pilar Ternera and th |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 5 Literature -- World It opens with a solitary watchman who notices a light, signaling the title character's approach. The title character returns to Argos after the fall of Troy, describing how his galley was the only one to make it out of a squall. |
| Agamemnon 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida State A - | 14 Literature -- World Early in his legal career, he studied rhetoric with Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro, and then became either the administrator of a prison or a mint before being promoted to judge. Spurious works attributed to him include On F |
| Publius Ovidius Nasso 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois and Yale - | 4 Literature -- World His first three plays, including "The Banqueters" and "The Babylonians", were produced by Callistratus, probably because he was considered too young to handle it himself. Although little is known of his personal life, he is beli |
| Aristophanes 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland - | 9 Literature -- World This author's early essay "A Style Reader" is considered a classic of criticism. Showing the influence of Poe in his first stories, such as "The Tattooer", he soon developed a more traditional style described in his famous essay |
| Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 1) - |
| The Apology 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Poetics 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Lysistrata 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 4) - |
| Things Fall Apart 2002 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 5) - |
| Interpreter of Maladies 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Central Florida - | 7 Literature -- World J.D. Salinger used a line from this poet to name his book "Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters." Swinburne translated the "Ode to Anactoria," but believed that Catullus's translation couldn't be improved. Though much of this p |
| Sappho 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Central Florida - | 12 Literature -- World A favorite saying of the protagonist is, "When a man says yes, his chi says yes also," illustrating his sense of his own boldness and strength. A critical moment in the novel occurs when the girl Ezinma is carried off by Chielo |
| Things Fall Apart 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 7 Literature -- World This play features an argument between Right Logic and Wrong Logic over the benefits of bathing. The creditors Pasias and Amynias are rebuked by the dishonest main character, a farmer who, because the titular chorus wishes to te |
| The Clouds (Nephelai) 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Emory - | 6 Literature -- World The title character finally achieves peace in this novella through the simplicity of his servant Gerasim. He had married Praskovya Fyodorovna because his friends approved, and had built a life based on orderly routine while seeki |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Smert Ivan Ilycha) 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida - | 2 Literature -- World The 13-day gap between two dates in this story corresponds to the gap between the old and new calendar systems, suggesting a dream as the explanation for its events. While wearing a gold-braided uniform, the title object is lost |
| The Nose 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida - | 12 Literature -- World The title figure of this novel has a name meaning "Father of gods who can do anything in this world." He rescues a woman held prisoner by a Skull and captures Death in a net, and he uses his skills as a juju-man to change into |
| The Palm-Wine Drinkard (and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town) 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Indiana - | 6 Literature -- World The sixth chapter of this work describes how the taking of the Goose-Feather Armor by Shi Qian leads to the defeat of the army of Hu-yuan Zhuo. Later, Shi Qian is unable to restrain himself from stealing a cock, leading to the th |
| Outlaws of the Marsh or The Water Margin or Shui-hu chuan 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Euripides 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Kelly McKenzie ( | 3) - |
| Jose Donoso 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Michigan - | 10 Literature -- World His first collection, "The Seashell Game", demonstrated his masterful use of the "loneliness ideal". He grew up as a companion of lord Todo Yoshitada at Ueno Castle, but has a name meaning banana-plant hut. After studying under |
| Matsuo Basho or Munefusa 2003 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton - | 19 Literature -- World He wrote about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War in Beneath Your Clear Shadow and Other Poems. His idea that existential alienation can be overcome through erotic love and artistic creativity was a recurring theme in pros |
| Octavio Paz 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley C, Florida State B, and Alfred University - | 18 Literature -- World It begins in Scythia, in a locale characterized as "the world's limit? an untrodden desolation." The title character doesn't speak until after Kratus and Bia, or Might and Violence, have left, soon after which he is visited by |
| Prometheus Bound 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Carleton and Georgia Tech B - | 16 Literature -- World Among the characters in this work are the forcefully cross-dressed Commissioner of Public Safety and the foolish clown Kinesias, though, perhaps the biggest fools are the Four Policemen who appear throughout. It is unclear whet |
| Lysistrata 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Carleton and Georgia Tech B - | 22 Literature -- World In her essay "A Bolter and the Invincible Summer" she admits to frequently skipping classes at convent school. Her more recent novels, The Pickup and The House Gun, are much less political than her first work, the story collect |
| Nadine Gordimer 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A and Vanderbilt A - | 6 Literature -- World This author once held diplomatic posts in Genoa, Nice, Lisbon, and Madrid, thanks in part to a Spanish, Basque, and Indian descent. Doris Dana and Langston Hughes translated portions of this writer's work writing into English, a |
| Gabriela Mistral (accept Lucila Godoy Alcayaga before it is mentioned) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A and Vanderbilt A - | 11 Literature -- World Its fourth section introduces us to two women, the latter of whom, Vera, was a former mistress of this novel's protagonist. Another woman, whom the narrator acquired in exchange for stealing a horse, is the subject of the first |
| A Hero of Our Time (or Geroy nashego vremeni) 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago C, Kentucky A, and Delaware - | 2 Literature -- World He turned away from novels for several years, publishing East, West, a book of short stories, and his travel narrative in a dangerous Nicaragua, The Jaguar Smile. Professor Malik Solanka travels the globe in his novel Fury, and h |
| Salman Rushdie 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago C, Kentucky A, and Delaware - | 7 Literature -- World One character in this work frequently displays tricky billiard shots and then launches into long rhetorical speeches, and when he is stopped, always mutters, "I am silent." His nephew had drowned and was close friends with Peter |
| The Cherry Orchard 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Cvijanovich - | 23 Literature -- World This author once attempted to write a biography of Roy Campbell but gave up when, in his words, "I could not bring myself to admire him" due to Campbell's conservative politics. He describes his first marriage in Kontakion For |
| Alan Stewart Paton 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by St. Thomas - | 21 Literature -- World This author helped spread his philosophy by founding a school of thought at his estate of Santiniketan. One of his philosophical concerns was the concept of "bridal mysticism", which was outlined in his work Sadhana. However i |
| Sir Rabindranath Tagore 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 20 Literature -- World In Rome he studied rhetoric under Epidius and learned from Siro the Epicurean, expressing his amazement at the city through the character of Tityrus. Among his minor works are the short epics Ciris and Culex and a didactic poem |
| Virgil or Publius Vergilius Maro 2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 23 Literature -- World At two points in this novel, the riddle "Nansen kills a Kitten" is discussed in relation to the moral quality of the protagonist. Formative events in the main character's childhood include the murder of Uiko, a meeting with Tay |
| The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (or Kinkakuji) 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Yaphe - | 10 Literature -- World In its 36th and final chapter, we learn that the daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded and married sons of their father's brothers. In the beginning of the book, a divinely-commanded census is taken, while later chap |
| Book of Numbers 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A, NC State, and Florida B - | 12 Literature -- World In one of this man's poems, he describes "Yesterday's news" as "more remote / than a cuneiform tablet smashed to bits" and calls people "buffoons," "coyotes," and "satraps." That poem, "Return," was published in an eponymous vol |
| Octavio Paz 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by FSU A, Michigan B, and South Carolina A - | 12 Literature -- World Welsh author Rhys Hughes has recently published a book inspired by a series this man wrote for the newspaper The Critic. This man's protagonists include a secretary of a municipal library anxious to read a rare edition of The Ar |
| Jorge Luis Borges 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Grinnell Lyon, Chicago E, UBC A, Florida A, and Penn - | 18 Literature -- World This man's latest novel is After Dark, set to be released in English in 2010. While watching a baseball game, he was suddenly inspired to write his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing. A translator has an asexual relationship with t |
| Haruki Murakami (accept names in either order) 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A, Williams A, Alfred, Southeastern, Carleton B, UTC B - | 8 Literature -- World He wrote about the fates of Sinfin Carrasco, Justino Perez, Roberto Lopez, and the rest of the "crew" who engaged in the titular fight in his "Furious Struggle Between Seamen and an Octopus of Colossal Size," which along with "Fe |
| Pablo Neruda (or Ricardo Eliecer NeftalĆ Reyes Basualto) 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky C and Grinnell Vigeland and Northwestern B and UCLA novice - | 4 Literature -- World Headmaster Michael and Nancy attempt to modernize a rural village run by a traditional priest in this man's short story "Dead Men's Path." He only wrote two volumes of stories, The Sacrificial Egg and Girls at War, while his sole |
| Chinua Achebe 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Kentucky C and Grinnell Vigeland and Northwestern B and UCLA novice - | 19 Literature -- World In this work, a messenger encounters the title character singing on a farm and announces that a festival would be held in the honor of the Goddess Hera and that all Argive maidens were to attend. However, the protagonist refuses |
| Electra 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by LSU, MIT, and UNC - | 2 Literature -- World Near the beginning of this work, its central figure speaks of a dream in which a beautiful woman dressed in white expressed her wish that he would "arrive at fertile Phthia on the third day." Later, the title character speaks of |
| Crito 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 2 Literature -- World One character in this play claims that he was prevented from entering the military due to "eye disease" and is thus forced to walk around a lake while his companion takes the ferry. That character's name refers to his blond hair |
| The Frogs [or Batrachoi] 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - | 7 Literature -- World Sheridan La Fanu wrote about the ghost of one which pursues Reverend Jennings in "The Green Tea." Leading Filipino writer Nick Joaquin wrote about four of them who went to Eden. Octavio Paz wrote about one who is a grammarian, a |
| monkeys [do not accept apes or other such answers] 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A, GWU, and Rose Hulman - | 14 Literature -- World Book Seven of this work begins with a discussion of a quote from Homer in which Praim says of Hector that he seemed not to be thie child of a mortal man, which leads to the claim that men are rarely brutish. That book concludes |
| the Nicomachean Ethics 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A, GWU, and Rose Hulman - | 21 Literature -- World After the protagonist of this work realizes that his son is sleeping with his mistress, he arranges to have the boy marry the daughter of a grain merchant. Just after the wedding, the protagonist's wife dies of a stomach ailmen |
| The Good Earth 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers and CMU - | 12 Literature -- World In 1953 he founded his country's Liberal Party, which was banned in 1968 by the Prohibition of Political Interference Bill. His lesser-known works include a study of his friends Jan Hofmeyr and the archbishop Geoffery Clayton, |
| Alan Paton 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by South Carolina A, Yale A, Grinnell Driscoll, Chicago D, and Florida D - | 19 Literature -- World A Jewish student nicknamed "mask-face" is absorbed into the jungle tribe known as the Machiguengans in his novel The Storyteller. The story of a group of boys enrolled in a military academy including "The Poet," "The Slave" and |
| Mario Vargas Llosa 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Texas A&M, Swarthmore, and Illinois B - | 15 Literature -- World One character keeps her mother Nivea's decapitated head in a hatbox and later predicts the earthquake that destroys Tres Marias. Another character befriends Transito Soto at the Red Lantern brothel and has twin boys, Jaime and N |
| The House of the Spirits or La Casa de los espiritus 2005 ACF Fall - Packet by UT-Austin, Chicago B, Yale B, Florida C, and Laurentian - | 10 Literature -- World The protagonist of this novel gains favor with the emperor after dancing the "Waves of the Blue Sea" and reciting some of his poetry, but is almost ruined when he impregnates Fujitsubo, the emperor's concubine. The protagonist a |
| The Tale of Genji or Genji monogatari 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A - | 13 Literature -- World His animal-themed poems include one in which he buries his dead dog "in the garden/next to a rusted old machine" and another focusing on a "Cat's Dream." "Entrance into Wood," "Hymn to Celery," and "Statute of Wine" make up his |
| Pablo Neruda 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Drake A, MIT B, and Georgia Tech B - | 5 Literature -- World A woman obsesses over the newspapers used to wrap the baby born on her nursery floor in one of his stories, another of which takes place primarily at the After the Show Retreat. In addition to "Swaddling Clothes" and "After the |
| Yukio Mishima 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia Tech A, Oklahoma A, and Florida B - | 1 Literature -- World In one story by this man Nancy is the shallow wife of the schoolmaster Michael, whose attempt to close a footpath gets him fired. He wrote children's stories like "The Flute" and "The Drum," while adult short story collections in |
| Chinua Achebe 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia Tech A, Oklahoma A, and Florida B - | 11 Literature -- World This Biblical figure is the namesake of a scientific quantity that is used to characterize the fluidity of material, which is based on the line "the mountains flowed before the Lord." Possibly married to a man named Lapidoth, th |
| Deborah 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Illinois B - | 13 Literature -- World In a story by this man the protagonist injures his head while rushing to read The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, leading him to convalesce in the title region, while Ryan quests to identify the assassin of Fergus Kilpatrick in |
| Jorge Luis Borges 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A and Florida A - | 8 Literature -- World Gil and Menga's search for a missing one introduces the action in CalderĆ³n de la Barca's The Devotion of the Cross, while Maillochon and Labouise shoot one in the head and sell its corpse to an idiot in a namesake Guy de Maupassa |
| donkeys [accept asses] 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois A and Florida A - | 14 Literature -- World One of the protagonists of this novel sees an improbable advertisement for "Scissors: for the man of action, satisfaction." That protagonist becomes involved with the political activist Zeeny Vikal after losing his role on the T |
| The Satanic Verses 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Keller - | 2 Literature -- World In one of this man's stories the cab driver Iona prolongs fares unnecessary in order to tell passengers about his recently deceased son. The title character of another story looks through a porthole of an infirmary ship to see C |
| Anton Chekhov 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Keller - | 5 Literature -- World In the first stanza of this poem, the author tells his beloved that "the last age should show your heart" after their passions subside. The speaker's desire runs so deep that he would love her "ten years before the flood," but sh |
| "To His Coy Mistress" 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Keller - | 13 Literature -- World This author wrote about the orchestra director Gabriel Atlan-Ferrera's love for the titular soprano in Inez. He explored the history of his native country in two early works: one following Franz, Isabella, Javier, and Elizabeth |
| Carlos Fuentes 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 2 Literature -- World One character in this work loses three fingers after his secret love affair is revealed by Count Jean de Satigny. Another character performs an abortion on his brother's girlfriend Amanda, whose socialist brother loves Alba. At |
| The House of the Spirits or La Casa de los Spiritos 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Mike Sorice - | 9 Literature -- World This person's thesis on GarcĆa MĆ”rquez is subtitled "Story of a God-Killer," while other critical work include 1975's The Perpetual Orgy about Madame Bovary. The Young Lady of Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, and La Chunga com |
| Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa [YO-suh] (prompt on partial last name) 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 10 Literature -- World One writer from this country created an artist whose crowning achievement, a painting titled Scumscape, is censored and confiscated. Another created the fictional country of Shavi and wrote of The Joys of Motherhood. Another " |
| Nigeria 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner and Brown - | 2 Literature -- World This man's daughter released a novel in 2006 which tells of Eva's encounters with the farmhand Ezekial, entitled Skinner's Drift, while his wife is the author of Rite of Passage, Threshhold, and Castaways. This man himself wrote |
| Athol Fugard 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner and Brown - | 10 Literature -- World In Herman Hesse's Klingsor's Last Summer, the title character addresses his cruel friend Louis as one of these, while in Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch, the title character's mother spends her days adding color to |
| birds 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Chicago C - | 5 Literature -- World They can be broken up into seven parts of equal length known as manzi, or thirty parts of equal length known as juz, which can further be divided into ahzabs. Twenty-nine of them begin with letters known as fawatih, all of which |
| suras 2006 ACF Fall - Packet by Yale A and Chicago C - | 13 Literature -- World In one of this man's novels, Ralph, the former governor of Isabella, laments "the shipwreck which all my life I had sought to avoid." His earlier novels include The Suffrage of Elvira and The Mystic Masseur, while his short fic |
| V.S. Naipaul 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Boston University and Georgia B - | 18 Literature -- World In one of this author's short stories, the narrator becomes captivated by thoughts of the title object after picking up a coin. Other of his stories describe a nineteen year old invalid with an incredible memory, a "monstrous" b |
| Jorge Luis Borges 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Brandeis and Vanderbilt A - | 15 Literature -- World One character in this novel tells a story about why the tortoise's shell is not smooth to her daughter, after which Chielo reveals that the latter must be taken to Agbala, the Oracle. During the Week of Peace, the protagonist br |
| Things Fall Apart 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Carnegie Mellon - | 9 Literature -- World One character in this work sends a letter from Leopoldville, asking his unfaithful wife to send him his velocipede. He travels there to recover a mis-shipped airplane, which he wanted to use to start an airmail business, having a |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude [accept Cien Anos de Soledad] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago A, Drake A, UNC A - | 21 Literature -- World The naming of Yuan-chan as an Imperial Consort brings great pride to the family in the beginning of this work, and her later death begins the clan's fall from favor. Early versions of the novel, featuring 80 chapters, were hand |
| Dream of the Red Chamber [or A Dream of Red Mansions or Story of the Stone or Honglou Meng; accept clear knowledge equivalents] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Columbia and South Carolina - | 11 Literature -- World This author described a woman who became the mistress of her late husband's father in his novel Thirst for Love and he detailed the relationship between Shinji and Hatsue in another novel. Noboru spies on his mother, who makes l |
| Mishima Yukio 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth B - | 13 Literature -- World This author wrote about Franz and Elizabeth's deaths at the Cholula pyramid in his novel A Change of Skin. In another of his novels, Federico Robles loses his wife and wealth in a house fire, while Pollo Phoibee falls into the S |
| Carlos Fuentes 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by ACF Editors and California-Irvine - | 17 Literature -- World During a visit to Barbara Smith's home in this novel, one character finds out that Sibeko's daughter was arrested for distilling liquor. By the end of the novel, the protagonist's fellow villagers receive gifts, including milk f |
| Cry, the Beloved Country 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Florida State A - | 21 Literature -- World In the Nathanael West novel The Dream Life of Balso Snell, a flea named Saint Puce spent his entire life in the armpit of this person. The title character of Flannery O'Connor's short story "Parker's Back" gets a tattoo of this |
| Jesus Christ (accept either name) 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A, Dartmouth A, and UNC B - | 12 Literature -- World This author wrote about the flaring of Charu's emotions due to the arrival of Amal, her husband's cousin, in The Broken Nose. The author of such dramas as The Post Office and Red Oleanders, he wrote about an activist who longs f |
| Rabindranath Tagore 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 20 Literature -- World This author described the title food as "the staff of life" made from "wood, cow dung, packed brown moss, the bodies of dead animals" in the poem "All Bread." Anna's best friend returns to her home in the wilderness to accept he |
| Margaret Atwood 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 20 Literature -- World In this work, the close of the Watchman's speech foreshadows the action to come when he says "I speak to those who understand, / but if they fail, I have forgotten everything." The image of the yoke recurs throughout the work, a |
| Agamemnon [prompt on Oresteia before it's mentioned] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Trygve Meade - | 14 Literature -- World This author wrote about men who throw coins into a woman's vagina to win two hours alone with her in the story "Toad's Mouth." Longer fiction by this author includes a work about Eliza Sommers, who follows her husband to Califor |
| Isabel Allende Llona 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 1 Literature -- World This figure is overcome with humility upon reaching Vulture Peak as it reminds him of his birth on the "Mountain of Flowers and Fruit." This figure's most famous accessory can grow or shrink to any size, and his more notable abil |
| Sun Wukong [or The Monkey King] 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 16 Literature -- World Near the end of this work, the protagonist is told "not to seek to be master in everything", while earlier that same character's wisdom is questioned, when a character accused of treason declares, "If you think obstinacy without |
| Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King or Oedipus Tyrannos 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Maryland A - | 18 Literature -- World Two of this man's works, The Cabal of Hypocrites and Life of Monsieur de Moliere, were inspired by the French Royal court, and he took inspiration from a native countryman to write Chichikov's Adventures. His ridiculous theatric |
| Mikhail Bulgakov 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by Rutgers-New Brunswick - | 7 Literature -- World Thomas Mann's work The Transposed Heads is subtitled "A Legend of" this country, a journey to which was the subject of a poem that asks the reader, "seest thou not God's purpose from the first"? In Shusaku Endo's Silence, Kichigi |
| India 2007 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A - | 5 Literature -- World A police officer in this work lends a shield so that a lamb may be sacrificed, but it is suggested that the title character should slaughter a jug of Thasian wine instead. After the setting of this work is compared to a large pie |
| Lysistrata 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Andrew Hart - | 5 Literature -- World One episode in this novel sees a man decide to stop praying after he bonks his nose on the ground and precious gems fall out of it. The protagonist's grandparents met because he was her doctor, but he was only allowed to see var |
| Midnight's Children 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Brown - | 1 Literature -- World One chapter of this novel takes on two opposing voices, one of which praises Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and another which regrets that Beresford has such great oratory skills. John Harrison, who is Mary's brother, is left a sizable c |
| Cry, the Beloved Country 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Caltech and Langston - | 14 Literature -- World One work by this man opens by describing "seafarers" who "tell of the Eastern isle of bliss." In another poem by this man, the sounds of a flute on a spring night inspire recollections of the gardens of home. In a third work, h |
| Li Po [accept Li Bai, Li Bo, or Li Tai-bo; might as well accept Rihaku too] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Cornell - | 1 Literature -- World The Dead Man and the Dead Woman are invited by Aroni to appear at the Gathering of the Tribes in this man's A Dance of the Forests, and his other works include the chaotic Requiem for a Futurologist. He wrote poems based on Gulli |
| Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka [accept A Dance of the Forests before "this man's"] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Dartmouth A - | 18 Literature -- World A female author from this country wrote Miss Sophie's Diary. One author from this country wrote the collection Call to Arms, which included a work about a man who fears cannibals, A Madman's Diary, and one about a man who has a |
| People's Republic of China [accept Zhongguo or Zhonghua Remin Gongheguo; do not accept "Republic of China," feel free to accept a magical psychic buzz with Ding Ling before "this country"] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Eden Prairie High School - | 17 Literature -- World This person and Charles Tomlinson built sonnet sequences upon each other's lines in Airborn. One of his works describes the government of his country as "The Philanthropic Ogre", and he examined contemporary poetry in The Pears |
| Octavio Paz Lozano 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Georgia A - | 2 Literature -- World One of this author's protagonists seeks his father in a classified ad before strangling Karima. In another of his works, a young man kills his boss on the same day that his country's president is shot. This author of The Search |
| Naguib Mahfouz 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A - | 20 Literature -- World In this author's first novel, Eugene Dawn is driven to insanity by his work on the Vietnam Project. In his next novel, Magda, the daughter of a sheep farmer, clashes with her father for taking a black mistress. In addition to Du |
| John Maxwell Coetzee 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard B - | 14 Literature -- World The end of this novel features a discussion of Chijimi linens as well as a scene in which a main character falls and "the Milky Way flow[s] down inside him with a roar," which follows the burning of a silk warehouse used as a mo |
| Snow Country [accept Yukiguni] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard C - | 1 Literature -- World He claimed that the west's pure-white skin allowed westerners to adopt bright lights, and exalted elegant toilets in one work, and he told of a beautiful woman who gets a "prostitute spider" emblazoned on her body in another. Th |
| Junichiro Tanizaki [accept in either order] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard C - | 6 Literature -- World This man adopted his rival's play Berenice into Tite and Berenice, a work about Titus's marital follies. Pauline and Felix decry the title character of another of his works for converting to Christianity, but when that Armenian |
| Pierre Corneille 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Illinois B - | 5 Literature -- World In one of this man's novels, the owner of the After the Show Retreat is married to the radical politician Yuken Noguchi. Another novel sets the Daphnis and Chloe story on Uta-Jima and stars the lovers Hatsue and Shinji. In additi |
| Mishima Yukio [accept in either order] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by MIT A - | 20 Literature -- World In a poem in this language, an exile convinces the titular entity, which is "frolicsome as an elephant," to carry a message to his wife. The same author also penned a play in this tongue in which the title woman loses a signet r |
| Sanskrit [or samskrta; or samskrtam] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by Penn A and Louisiana-Lafayette - | 4 Literature -- World One of this man's protagonists sees a giant chrysanthemum that irradiates everything at the exact moment his father dies, and he wrote a short story in which a young boy named Harelip helps attend to a shot-down black airman. In |
| Kenzaburo Oe [accept in either order] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA A, Missouri State, and J.S. Reynolds - | 1 Literature -- World In one of his works, a priest who had been falsely accused of rape dies after rushing into a burning house to save the accuser's baby, revealing that the priest was a woman. In addition to "The Martyr," he wrote about a robber wh |
| Ryunosuke Akutagawa [accept in either order] 2008 ACF Fall - Packet by UCSD and Princeton A - | 14 Literature -- World He wrote about the death of the Yardmaster in "Man on Pink Corner," which was included along with "The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell" and a work about Monk Eastman in his A Universal History of Iniquity. He wrote about the scarr |
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