What is the real full name of Sigmund Freud?

This theorist famously argued, through his work 'The Science of Mechanics' (1883), that the mind had a fundamental structure, and that subjective experience was based on the interplay of parts of the mind. His theories influenced the early modernist literature on a large scale. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism, and through his criticism of Isaac Newton, a forerunner of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Who is he?

Who was the physician who co-authored 'Studies in Hysteria' (1895) along with Sigmund Freud. The work is considered as Freud's first major work?

Who became a major precursor of modernism through his idea that psychological drives, specifically the "will to power" were more important than facts or things in the external world?

Who wrote the 1864 novella Notes from Underground, which is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature?

"A way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.... Instead of narrative method, we may now use the mythical method. It is, I seriously believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art." It was in 1923 that T. S. Eliot spoke about the techniques of this famous modernist.

Identify the movement.

- Direct treatment of the "thing", whether subjective or objective.

- To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.

- As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.

Identify the modernist work:

- "the futility and anarchy" in its own way, in its fragmented structure, and the absence of an obvious central, unifying narrative.

- "The decay and fragmentation of Western Culture" is the theme of this poem.

- The poem, despite the absence of a linear narrative, does have a structure, provided by both fertility symbolism derived from anthropology, and other elements such as the use of quotations and juxtaposition.

- first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial.

- published in book form in December 1922.

"Poetry, like music, is to be heard. It deals in sound - long sounds and short sounds, heavy beats and light beats, the tone relations of the vowels, the relations of consonants to one another which are like instrumental colour in music. Poetry lies dead on the page until some voice brings it to life, just as music on the stave, is no more than instructions to the player. A skilled musician can imagine the sound, more or less, and a skilled reader can try to hear, mentally, what his eyes see in print: but nothing will satisfy either of them till his ears hear it as real sound in the air. Poetry must be read aloud."

These words about the importance of sound in poetry features in 'The Poet's Point of View' part in a long, modernist poem. Identify the poet and the work.

Officially debuting in 1874, which among the following is considered as the first modernist art movement?

Famously printing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with a mustache penciled over it, which modernist movement's haughty playfulness was exemplified by the French artist Marcel Duchamp?

Identify the year.

- James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake got published.

- W. B. Yeats died.

- Seamus Heaney was born.

Identify the work which famously include these hundred letter words.

-The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.

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The (klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrottygraddaghsemmihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot!)

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Wold Forrester Farley who, in deesperation of deispiration at the diasporation of his diesparation, was found of the round of the sound of the lound of the Lukkedoerendunandurraskewdylooshoofermoyportertooryzooysphalnabortansporthaokansakroidverjkapakkapuk.

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For hanigen with hunigen still haunt ahunt to finnd their hinnigen where Pappappapparrassannuaragheallachnatullaghmonganmacmacmacwhackfalltherdebblenonthedubblandaddydoodled and anruly person creeked a jest.

Let us here consider the casus, my dear little cousis (husstenhasstencaffincoffintussemtossemdamandamnacosaghcusaghhobixhatouxpeswchbechoscashlcarcarcaract) of the Ondt and the Gracehoper.

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Who originally coined the term 'theatre of the absurd' in his 1960 essay, "Theatre of the Absurd"?

In 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre’s magazine Les Temps Modernes published the first part of this author's short story "Suite" (later to be called "La Fin", or "The End"), not realising the author had only submitted the first half of the story; Simone de Beauvoir refused to publish the second part too. Who was the author?

Which of the contemporaries of Eliot wrote a parody for 'The Wasteland', a poem provocatively titled as "Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance" in 1923, getting considered as the author's best satire ever?

Check all the right differences between modernism and postmodernism.

Check all the similarities between modernism and postmodernism.

The term 'historiographic metafiction' is used for works of fiction which combine the literary devices of metafiction with historical fiction, distinguished by frequent allusions to other artistic, historical and literary texts (intertextuality) in order to show the extent to which works of both literature and historiography are dependent on the history of discourse. Who coined the term?

Identify one work which uses the literary device named 'poioumenon' that refers to a specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation.

Who famously said about the postmodern perspective as follows?:

"Postmodernism ... is not a trend to be chronologically defined, but, rather, an ideal category... I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her "I love you madly", because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution. He can say "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly". At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently, he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence."

“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”

How will you label this quote?

Why is the Bloomsbury group important in literature?

Pick out the phrase used by Ezra Pound to describe his poem The Cantos

Pastiche refers to...

A deliberate referencing of one (or more) texts within the narrative of another, with the expectation that the audience will be able to recognise and appreciate it's significance.

The putting together of cultural signifiers to form new meanings / texts. The mixing together, or re-contextualising, of different styles and ideas in fashion, music, art and media to create new meanings.

Texts that deliberately draw attention to their own fictional nature.

A realistic copy. A copy of a copy that has that no relationship with the thing it was copied from. The media text that is a copy of a copy. The media is full of these. 'Busted' are ... punk rockers. (J. Baudrillard)

A postmodern condition in which the distinction between reality and fiction has disappeared. 'Big Brother' in which reality and entertainment are the same, media reality is more real than reality. Disneyworld and Las Vegas are other cultural examples. (J. Baudrillard)

Who talked about meta-narratives?

Who talked about hyper reality, bricolage and simulcra?

Who gave a Marxist critique on postmodernism as an ‘excuse’, too much emphasis on physical surfaces, no substance, as embracing consumerism and capitalism?

Many critics agree that the development of postmodernist thought is concurrent with the emergence of late capitalism. Postmodernists respond to late capitalism with an anti-authoritarian attitude. They reject generalizing theories, universalities, all-encompassing narratives, and ideals constructed by authoritative entities. Early postmodern writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut, reacted to post-war, post-atomic America in their expressions of antiwar and anti-establishment feelings. Contemporary postmodern works such as the television series Black Mirror often express a distrust in society’s reliance on digital networks and surveillance.

Which of the following inferences about postmodernism is best supported by the passage above?

Postmodernists would be most likely interested in representing the voices of _________.

_________ is a post-industrial economic system characterized by globalization, mass media, and consumption

Is the following an example of Modernity or Postmodernity?

Joe gets his high-school diploma, goes to Cal State Stanislaus like he's supposed to, receives a bachelor's degree in business, opens up a furniture store, marries a woman, has two kids, and earns a lower middle-class salary while his wife stays at home to cook, clean, and raise their children.

"At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers" contains many elements of:

Who coined the term 'stream of consciousness'?

Which features of Victorian age are rejected by the modernists?

Is the following an example of Modernity or Postmodernity?

Josefina graduates from high school but opts not to go to college. Instead, she takes $5,000 dollars she saved up over her high-school career and sets off across the country in her Kia Forte. Her car breaks down in Kansas, and she's forced to find work to pay for the expenses. She lands an entry job with Amazon, but it takes her a full year to have enough money to get her car out of the auto shop. She eventually does, discovers that she likes her job with Amazon and the low-key lifestyle in Kansas, and forms the opinion that a college education isn't worth the time or money--in short, it is overrated. College does not apply to her.

Modernism follows the thematic quality of __________.

What is the term associated with Modernism that means "loss of a false belief"?

Identify the narrative device used in the following passage:

"a quarter after what an unearthly hour I suppose they're just getting up in China now combing out their pigtails for the day well soon have the nuns ringing the angelus they've nobody coming in to spoil their sleep except an odd priest or two for his night office the alarmlock next door at cockshout clattering the brains out of itself let me see if I can doze off 1 2 3 4 5 what kind of flowers are those they invented like the stars the wallpaper in Lombard street was much nicer the apron he gave me was like that something only I only wore it twice better lower this lamp and try again so that I can get up early."

"There are smells that are fresh like children's skin,

calm like oboes, green like meadows

– And others, rotten, heady, and triumphant,

having the expansiveness of infinite things,

like amber, musk, benzoin, and incense,

which sing of the raptures of the soul and senses.

Try a sharp identification of the literary device that is best used here.

Who called postmodernism "the cultural logic of late capitalism" ?

"What is meant ... by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that, first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and only afterwards defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives of him, is undefinable, it is only because he is nothing. Only afterwards will he be something, and he will have made what he will be."

Who famously declared this in a lecture given in Paris on 29th October 1945?

Check all the works which are famously listed in 1998 by the Modern library, with a board of review of esteemed writers, under the hundred best novels of the twentieth century?

Which was the first characteristic associated with modernism?

Which term is best defined as an avant- garde movement through which objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form, ie. instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context?

Which French Philosopher argued that there were no meta or grand narratives, only micro narratives?

Which text first introduced its readers to the term 'simulacrum'?

Who wrote that panopticism is a one-way power/knowledge relationship between those under surveillance and the watchers who could not be watched?

Check all the techniques used in epic theatre.

Find the right chronological order.

Which year can be considered as a huge year for modernists, with the publication of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Kafka's The Trial, and Yeats's A Vision?

Identify the work.

- primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested.

- hence considered a hybrid one, indicative of a new genre, the "modernist epic."

- first published in 1930.

- comprises 15 lyric poems of varying length and scope.

- mixes near-Pindaric declamatory metre, free verse, sprung metre, Elizabethan diction and demotic language.

- short lyrical ode to the Brooklyn Bridge and New York City.

"This is the way the world will end

Not with a bang, but a whimper."

Which modernist poem features these lines?

"The German artist creates out of his imagination, inner vision, the forms of visible nature are to him only a symbol."

Which movement does these words of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner point to?

Identify the movement.

- Depicted dreams, fantasies and the unconscious state.

- Often incorporated the juxtaposition of incompatible elements.

- "It is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision." Salvador Dalí

Though the term 'the lost generation' was coined by Gertrude Stein in 1920, it was popularised by a 1926 novel for which the epigraph is "You are all a lost generation". Which novel is that?

Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape.

According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?

Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” ?

Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?

When did Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams' get published?

Which work of the famous Scottish social anthropologist in 1890 focuses on human belief as progressed through three stages- primitive magic, religion and science?

Which famous modernist novel was originally titled 'The Hours'?

The character of Mrs Dalloway didn’t make her debut in Mrs Dalloway (1925). She’d first appeared in print a decade before, in Woolf’s first-ever published novel. Which novel was that?

Whose creation is the fictional Mississippi County named Yoknapatawpha County?

Who devotes two chapters of his book, The Politics of Modernism (1989), to a discussion of the politics and language of the avant-garde?

Who often gets considered as "mother of modernism"?

Who won the first National Book Award for Poetry?

Whose widely known lines are:

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," and "there is no there there"?