ENGL 385 midtermI

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“I kept her brown figure always in my eye and when we came near the point at which our ways diverged I quickened my pace and passed her. This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her except for a few casual words and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

Araby by James Joyce

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“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how Icould tell her of my confused adoration.”

Araby by James Joyce

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“I looked over at the dark house where she lived. I may have stood there for an hour seeing nothing but the brownclad figure cast by my imagination, touched discreetly by the lamplight at the curved neck, at the hand upon the railings and at the border below the dress.”

Araby by James Joyce

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“A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his goloshes; and, as the buttons of his overcoat slipped with a squeaking noise through the snowstiffed frieze, a cold fragrant air from out of doors escaped from crevices and folds.”

The Dead by James Joyce

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“Then he took a coin rapidly from his pocket.

–O Lily, he said, thrusting it into her hand, it’s Christmas time, isn’t it. Just…here’s a little…

He walked rapidly towards the door.

–O no, sir! cried the girl, following him. Really, sir, I wouldn’t take it.”

The Dead by James Joyce

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“But she had no right to call him a west Briton before people, even in joke. She had tried to make him ridiculous before people, heckling him and staring at him with her rabbit’s eyes.”

The Dead by James Joyce

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But now after the kindling again of so many memories, the first touch of her body, musical and strange and perfumed, sent through him a keen pang of lust. Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side: and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties…”

The Dead by James Joyce

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“The windows of the drawing-room opened onto a balcony overlooking the garden. At the far end, against eh wall, there was a tall, slender pear tree in fullest, richest bloom; it stood perfect, as though becalmed against the jade-green sky.”

Bliss by Katherine Mansfield

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“Although it was so still it seemed, like the flame of a candle, to stretch up, to point, ot quiver in the bright air, to grow taller and taller as they gazed–almost to touch the rim of the round, silver moon.”

Bliss by Katherine Mansfield

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“At the sight of him Laura remembered the accident again. She wanted to tell him. If Laurie agreed with the others, then it was bound to be all right.”

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

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“‘Isn’t life,’ she stammered, ‘isn’t life–’ But what life was she couldn’t explain. No matter. He quite understood.

‘Isn’t it, darling?” Said Laurie.”

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

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“If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself. I did what I pleased and was never punished. Can you imagine what kind of a childhood it was?”

The Woman who had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin

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“Paco sensed an unreality in both worlds: the people who occupied them did not seem to be living there at all.”

The Woman who had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin

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“One smiled and floated away, insulated from all the drab horror of inadequate reality by the ultra-perfect, colossal, stupendous, technicolored magnificence of theGreat American Dream.”

The Woman who had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin

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“What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth? . . . The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.”

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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“She glanced at me above the glasses. The swift and indifferent placidity of that look troubled me. Two youths with foolish and cheery countenances were being piloted over and she threw at them the same quick glance of unconcerned wisdom. She seemed to know all about them and about me too.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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“My purpose was to stroll into the shade for a moment, but no sooner within than it seemed to me I had stepped into the gloomy circle of some Inferno.”

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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“No arrow flies back to the string, the child does not return through the same passage that gave it birth.”

Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka

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“Who does not seek to be remembered?

Memory is Master of Death, the chink

In his armour of conceit.”

Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka

In The Dead by James Joyce, why is Gretta sad to hear the song played?

Her dead friend played it

In Katherine Mansfields stories, what is the most important part of the story?

the ending

In Katherine Mansfields stories, life is lived forward but understood _______

backward

What do the two navels in Nick Joaquin’s The woman with two navels represent?

duality / inner conflict

What are the three dualities represented by the two navels in Nick Joaquin’s The woman with two navels?

contending colonialism, straddling the divide between Asia and the West, and an independent nation born twice

Heart of Darkness is an ______ topic, the inquiry into what darkness is is ______

abstract, symbolic

What are the two dimensions of Heart of Darkness?

adventure and Marlow’s quest

what does the mist/haze/fog in Heart of Darkness represent?

The uncertain nature of sense perception

What/Where is the “heart of darkness” (3 answers)?

Africa, European capitals, Kurtz

Heart of Darkness is a _____ narrative, and each layer adds ______ and _______

frame, distance, uncertainty

Modernist plays are _____ artifice–”you are watching a play”, NOT illusionism–”this is pretend reality”

overt

What are the three spots in which the ritual in Death and the King’s Horseman is interrupted?

not-I bird, offended by joke, distracted by woman

The conflict in Death and the King’s Horseman is caused by Elesin’s ___________, wherein he mixes _____ with _____, which delays his suicide

tragic error of judgement, sexual desire, duty