SOME TRICKY ONES

The next set of questions:     SOME TRICKY ONES

Prometheus bound Written by : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Victorian Writer)
Prometheus Unbound Written by P.B. Shelley ( Romantic Writer)
Prometheus the fire giver Written by Robert Bridges (Edwardian Writer)

Ulysses the poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ulysses the play written by James Joyce
The portrait of artist as a young man first title was Stephen Hero.

Tale of a tub Written by Jonathan Swift
Love in a tub Written by Ethredge
Love and a bottle by George Farquhar (His First Comedy)

"The white man's Burden" is a phrase coined by Rudyard Kipling ; The reason behind the coinage is : Americas duty of civilizing the Philippians during the wars. Nothing to do with the British impact on the Indian Subcontinent)

the order of the periodicals of the eighteenth century according to their chronology:
Tatler - Spectator- Guardian - Rambler
The first three by Steele (Addison's contribution also there) and the last by Johnson.

A poem on the death of Dr. Swift was written by Jonathan Swift.
There is both an ode and an elegy written by Walt Whitman upon the death of the former American President Abraham Lincoln
Ode is : O Captain, My Captain
Elegy is: When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd.

Peterloo massacre of which Shelley and Keats referred to in their poems a lot  occurred in August 1819, which take its name from the Battle of Waterloo fought five years before (1815). It was a movement led by Hunt the orator against the government policies of the time which led to the massacre.

Essay on Criticism was written by Alexander Pope in the year 1711 (published)
Essays in Criticism was written by Mathew Arnold

continuation of list

AESTHETICISM:

·         It was a European Phenomenon.

·         Started in the Latter half of the 19^th century.

·         Head quarters at France.

·         It started due to the opposition of the dominance of scientific thinking and middle class’ indifference to accept arts for its own sake.

·         The middle class of the time wanted art to teach moral values.

·         “L’art pour L’ art “ – “Art for Art’s sake” Motto of the movement.

·         First roots of aestheticism found in the work of Imanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement (1790)

·         Pure aesthetics -  disinterested contemplation

·         “Art is useless “ commented by Theophile Gautier in his work Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835)

·         Aestheticism developed by Baudelaire in France

·         In English it was introduced by Walter Pater – Emphasised high artifice and stylistic subtelity.

·         Baudelaire was greatly influenced by Edgar Allen Poe.

·         “The Poetic Principle” (1850) written by Edgar Allen Poe.

·         Flaubert, Mallarme took up Poe’s views.

·         Artist representing a priest who renounces the practical concerns of ordinary existence in the service of “the Religion of Beauty” – Flaubert.

·         The Renaissance (1873) by Walter Pater.

·         Works:

Ø  “Artistic adventure” (1945) by William Gaunt.

Ø  “Romantic Image” (1957) by Franc

Ø  “From Gautier to Elliot” (1960) by Enid Starkie.

Ø  “Aestheticism” (1969) R.V. Johnson.

Ø  “The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook (1979) by Ian Small.

Ø  Strangeness and Beauty: The Anthology of Aesthetic criticism (1840-1960) by Warner and Graham Hogh.

Ø  Aesthetic and Decadence: A Selective Anotable Bibliography (1977) by Linda C. Dowling.

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS FOR NET EXAMS - ENGLISH

Objective type questions for june 2012 according to literary terms by MH Abrams.

The Theatre of the Absurd

·         Ubu the King was written by Alfred Jarry (1896)

·         The Trial, Metamorphoses are written by Franz Kafka.

·         Absurd Literature as a movement emerged in France during the II world war.

·         It was a rebellion against essential beliefs and values of traditional culture.

·         Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are existential philosophers.

·         The Myth of Sysiphus was written by Albert Camus in the year 1942.

·         The French author of “The Bald Suprano” (1949) and “The Lesson” (1951) is Eugene Ionesco.

·         “Man is lost” in the present day world is famous comment by Eugene Ionesco.

·         Samuel Becket was an Irish man.

·         Samuel Becket wrote in French and translated to English many of his works.

·         Waiting for Godot written by Becket was published in the year 1954.

·         End Game and Malone dies (Becket’s Prose work) was written during the year 1958.

·         Absurd dramatic form rejected: Realistic setting, Logical reasoning and Coherently evolving plot.

·         ”Nothing Happens, Nobody comes, Nobody goes. Its Awful” isa famous line from the play Waiting for Godot.

·         The two Tramps in Waiting for Godot is Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (gogo).

·         The Unnameable is a prose fiction written by Samuel Becket during the year 1960.

·         Malone dies and the unnameable represents antihero concept.

·         Jean Genet combined absurdism and diabolism

·         Harold Pinter is an Englishman whereas Albee is an American.

·         “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead” is a famous play written by Tom Stoppard in the year 1966.

·         Travesties (1974) written by Tom Stoppard.

·         Black Comedy is also a tragic Farce.

·         Some major works of black comedy are :

Ø  Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

Ø  V by Thomas Pynchon (1963)

Ø  The World According to Garp by John Irving (1978)

Ø  Dr. Strange love is a black comedy cinema written by Stanley Kubric.

·         "Largo Desolato” was written by the Czech writer Vaclav Havel in the year 1987.

·         “The Island” (1973) is a collaborative work by South African writers Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Nishona.

·         Some other famous works:

Ø  The Theatre of the Absurd (1966) (word coined also) by Martin Esslin.

Ø  The Blasphemers: The heater of Brecht, Ionesco, Becket and Genet (1965) is written by David Grossvogel.

Ø  The absurd (1969) by Arnold P. Hinchcliffe.

Ø  Black Humor Fiction of the sixties (1980) is written by Max F. Schultz.

Ø  Around the absurd essays on Modern and Postmodern drama (1990) edited by Ruby Cohn and Enoch Brates.

ACT:

·         Acts in a play were introduced by the Elizabethan writers in English Literature.

·         They copied it from Ancient Roman Plays which had 5 acts.

·         Anton Chekhov and Henry Ibsen made it into four Acts. Modern Plays have ranging from one to as much as five.

·         Proscenium arch frames the front of the stage.