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Modernist Authors
YGK These Modernist Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of the seven-volume masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) | Marcel Proust |
| The small French cake that triggers the narrator's involuntary memories of Combray in Swann’s Way | Madeleine |
| The American-born author who established a famous literary salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris | Gertrude Stein |
| The author of the line “rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” from the poem “Sacred Emily” | Gertrude Stein |
| The term Gertrude Stein apocryphally used to describe the generation of Americans born in the late 19th century | The Lost Generation |
| The insurance executive and poet who wrote “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” | Wallace Stevens |
| The author who used stream-of-consciousness to link Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith in Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| The 1929 essay by Virginia Woolf that discusses the obstacles facing women writers and a fictional sister of Shakespeare | A Room of One’s Own |
| The James Joyce novel that follows Leopold Bloom through Dublin on June 16, 1904 | Ulysses |
| The annual celebration held on June 16 by fans of James Joyce's Ulysses | Bloomsday |
| The experimental James Joyce novel that begins with a sentence fragment starting "riverrun..." | Finnegans Wake |
| The D. H. Lawrence novel about an affair between Constance Reid and the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors | Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
| The poetic movement developed by Ezra Pound that focused on sharp language and precise imagery | Imagism |
| The 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot that begins “April is the cruellest month” | The Waste Land |
| The Eliot poem that ends with the line “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper” | The Hollow Men |
| The collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot that served as the basis for the musical Cats | Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats |
| The poet known for unusual punctuation and capitalization who wrote “anyone lived in a pretty how town” | E. E. Cummings |
| The novel based on E. E. Cummings's imprisonment in France during World War I | The Enormous Room |
| The author of the modernist epic The Bridge, which centers on the Brooklyn Bridge | Hart Crane |
| The phrase coined by Hart Crane in The Bridge that became the title of a famous ballet by Martha Graham and Aaron Copland | Appalachian Spring |
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