(Extra-9)Quizzing English Lit-2(250)
201. Beatrice & Virgil guide Dante in the climb of the Mount of Purgatory. In the climb, Dante discusses sin. Its an allegory.
202. The idea of Australia as "the lucky country" is in Tim Winston's novel Cloudstreet. It is about Pickles and Lambs families. Its published in 1991.
203. The name of the only daughter of Paddy in the large family of Clearys in Collen McCullough's novel The Thorn Birds is Megan.
204. The three sisters in Jokha Alharti's novel Celestial Bodies are Asma, Hamna and Khawla. Setting is Oman.
205. Mary Prince-The History of Mary Prince was the first narrative on the life of a black woman slave to the published in England in 1831. It has profound influence on the abolition movement in Britain.
206. The enigmatic castle which K. attempts to reach in vain in Franz Kafka's The Castle belongs to Count Westwest.
207. Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) wrote Il Cortegiano. The main themes are nature of graceful behaviour, especially the impression of effortlessness (sprezzatura),....
208. In 1534, the British Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy. King was established the Supreme Head of English church & Anglican Church replaced Catholic Church. Henry VIII made Thomas Cranmer the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant him divorce & permit to remarry Anne Boleyn. Cranmer also prepared the First Book of Common Prayer to be used in the Anglican Church. The Pope excommunicated Henry & Cranmer.
209. Italo Calvino constructed his narrative in the novel The Caste of Crossed Destinies through a tarot pack of cards and re-interpret the western canon providing new versions of Oedipus Rex, Faust, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear.
210. In 1553, Edward VI fell ill and died; he was succeeded by his cousin Lady Jane Grey. Within a few days, Lady Jane was imprisoned and Mary Tudor the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon became Queen Mary I. Mary restored Catholicism as the state religion. She married Philip II, Catholic King of Spain-a marriage unpopular in England which provoked Wyatt's Rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt the younger. She ordered around 300 Protestants to be tried and executed for which she came to be called Bloody Mary. She died childless in 1558 & was succeeded by Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn.
211. Anne Boleyn (1501-1536) was the second of the six wives of Henry VIII. She & Thomas Cromwell are some of the protagonists in Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies (2012). Mantel got Booker in 2009 for Wolfhall.
212. Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540), one of the strongest advocates of English Reformation, is the Chief Minister to Henry VIII who engineered the King's divorce. He fell from the King's grace for marrying a German princess. He was executed for treason in 1540. Oliver Cromwell was his great-great-grandnephew.
213. Charles Dickens' historical novel Barnaby Rudge is set against the backdrop of Gordon Riots of 1780. Pictures from Italy is his travelogue which has the sight of Padua.
214. Graham Swift's Waterland is a postmodern novel which subverts the truth claims of traditional historiography.
215. Jack Upland is a Middle English, polemical, probably Lollard, literary work & sequel to Piers Plowman with Antichrist attacking Christians through corrupt confession.
216. Machiavelli makes an important distinction between two groups of the "great" and the "people" in The Prince.
217. Lollard Movement was led by John Wycliff, a Proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that existed from the mid-14th century to the 16th century English Reformation. He was dismissed from Oxford University for criticising Roman Catholic Church. They formulated their beliefs in the Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards. He is called MORNING STAR OF REFORMATION.
218. Songs and Sonettes was first published in 1557.
219. Thomas Hoccleve wrote La Male Regle.
220. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was written by John Mandeville.
221. In Elizabethan Age, man became a spiritual individual.
222. In Masculine Birth of Time (1603) Bacon writes about the relationship between science and religion.
223.W. M. Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair concludes as "Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is satisfied"?
224. Thomas Hoccleve's poem La Male Regle (1406; The Male Regimen) of 15th century presents a vivid picture of the delights of a bachelor's evening amusements in the taverns and cookshops of Westminster. It was called Barren Age with mostly translations and had Early Tudors.
225. Charles Dickens' Great Expectations has the character Compeyson.
226. Stephen Gosson was a Puritan and attacked drama in 1579 and dedicated his Apologie for Poetry to Sir Philip Sidney who was then already famous in the Elizabethan Age.
227. The two most articulate and acute Elizabethan critics of poetry, George Puttenham and Sir Philip Sidney recognized that they were confronting a crisis in English writing. Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sidney's The Defence of Poesie (1595) endeavour to trace a poetic tradition which embraces the ancient.
228. Beowulf is an old English epic poem of 3,182 alliterative lines. Setting is 6th century pagan Scandinavia.
229. To Delphi Oracle, its Know Thyself. Delphi is part of ancient Graeco - Roman world which had reached pinnacle of human intellectual achievement.
230. Galileo supported Copernicus's heliocentric universe for his free thinking & was put under house arrest.
231. In The Prince Machiavelli makes an important distinction between 2 groups that are present in every city, and have very different appetites driving them: the great and the people. The great oppress & rule the people and the people wish not to be ruled.
232. Nonfictional prose genres cover an almost infinite variety of themes, existing in polemical, religious & biographical literature.
233. The Life of St. Katherine of Alexandria is written in verse form and is like a debate.
234. Anne Bronte's novel Agnes Grey is a bildungsroman.
235. The Life of Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 & written by Elizabeth Gaskell.
236. Humanism says, God created the universe but it was humans who developed it.
237. Reginald Peacock wrote The Repressor of overmuch Blaming of Clergy. He was a religious controversalist.
238. In 1593, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia was published bringing together the unrevised last two books of the New Arcadia. It was a curious hybrid.
239. The protagonist of Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister was Christian Custance.
240. Niccolo Machiavelli's The Discourses of Livy is divided into 3 books.
241. The Sidney Psalms were written in collaboration between Philip Sydney and Mary Sidney.
242. Cicero and Justinian influenced Bacon's judicial concepts.
243. Bacon's The New Atlantis were experimented Salomon's House.
244. The Vitruvian Man is a world renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci in 1487. Vitruvius described human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture.
245. Lodge's romance Rosalynde is based on Shakespeare's As You Like It which has the title Euphues' Golden Legacy.
246. John Capgrave was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian.
247. Sir John Tyndale translated Bible and Book of Common Prayer. This translation formed the basis for Authorized Bible in 1611.
248. "The comprehensive output hypothesis" theory was proposed by Merrill Swain. Its one stop solution. Its second language acquisition theory-L2:- how we are acquiring the 2nd language. She is Canadian applied linguist.
249. In Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Emma goes every week under the pretext of lessons in piano, for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen.
250. In Ulysses Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin newspaper. This novel also creates the legacy of modernist writing.