MODERN IRODALOM BEUGR KRDSEK

WORKS
BRAVE NEW WORLD:
What is the name of the institution directed by the character nicknamed Tomakin in Brave New World?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
The title of the Brave New World comes from an earlier literary work. What is the name of that work and
who wrote it? Shakespeare Tempest
TURN OF THE SCREW
What position did Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw fill? Former governess
What was the name of the two children in Turn of the Screw? Flora and Miles
Who was Mrs. Grose in the Turn of the Screw? ally of the Governess/ servant at Bly
What was the name of the girl, who was put in charge of the Governess, in the Turn of the Screw? Flora
The author of The Turn of the Screw: Henry James
GRASS IS SINGING:
In what relation is the character called Dick Turner to Mary in The Grass is Singing? he is her husband
Who is Moses in The Grass is Singing? male servant
Mitl szenvedett gyerekkorban Mary Turner a The Grass is Singing-ben? Her abusive parents / abusive
alcoholist dad
THE CARETAKER
For what purpose does Davies in The Caretaker plan to go to a place called Sidcup? to get his papers which
will prove who he is
In which tragicomic play do a pair of shoes and a bag play a crucial, symbolic part? Caretaker
THE DEAD
What does the song The Lass of Aughrim remind Gretta of in Joyces The Dead? when she was a girl and
in love with a boy named Michael Furey
In which session of the year does the narrative of The Dead unfold? epiphany, 1st week of January
In which season of the year does the narrative of The Dead unfold? Winter, Christmas celebrations.
name of Gabriels collague with whom he has argument Molly Ivors
Relation between Gabriel and Miss Ivors: collegue
DUBLINERS:
A The Dubliners milyen letszakaszokat mutat be az ifjsg mellett? maturity, public life, childhood
What was the collection of works published by Joyce in 1914? Dubliners
WAITING FOR GODOT
Mi a waiting for godot alcme? A tragicomedy in two acts
ULYSSES
By what name is the June 16th when Ulysses unfolds commonly known? Bloomsday
HEART OF DARKNESS
Who said in the Heart of Darkness: Kill the brutes Kurtz
Of whom it is said in Heart of Darkness that the meaning of his tales are not inside like a kernel, but outside,
enveloping the tale, which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze []? Marlow

MRS. DALLOWAY
Who suffered in shell shock in Mrs. Dalloway? Septimus Warren Smith
What is the geographic location of Mrs. Dalloways childhood memories? London, Westminster
What war-related psychological illness does Septimus Warren Smith suffer from?
Shell Shock
How did the guy suffering in shell shock died? He jumped out of a window / suicide
Name of the two women-characters Clarissa intensely dislikes in Mrs Dalloway?
Kilman and Lady Bruton
PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
In which city the prime of Miss Jean Brodie set? Edinburgh
In which country is the story of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie set? Scotland
AUTHORS
EZRA POUND
Make it new... Who made that call on his or her fellow-artists? Ezra Pound
AUDEN
Name one modern poet belonging to the Auden-generation other than W. H. Auden. C. D. Lewis / Stephen
Spender
Name 2 poets who had effects on Auden/ Auden had effect on 2 poets: EFFECT ON AUDEN: Ts. Eliot,
Wilfred Oven AUDEN HAD EFFECT ON: Philip Larkin, Cecil Day Lewis
HUXLEY
Which 20th century writers grandfather was known to his contemporaries as Darwins bulldog? Aldous Huxley
Previous version of Huxleys Island, which is a dystopia: Brave New World
Melyik dystopia-t rta jra ksbb huxley utpiaknt? Brave New World - > Island
THOMAS HARDY
Which 19th century English novelist was a 20th c. poet? Thomas Hardy
DYLAN THOMAS
Name the Welsh-born English poet whose work is associated with New Romanticisism. Dylan Thomas
SIR THOMAS MORE
Which 16th c. writer-politician coined the term utopia? Sir Thomas More
GEORGE ORWELL
Whose original name was Eric Arthur Blair? George Orwell
DORIS LESSING
What was the prize which author of The Grass Is Singing got ? Doris Lessing, author got Nobel Prize
JOSEPH CONRAD
From all the English modernist writers who was of Polish origin? Joseph Conrad
Who is the British author who was several .thoroughgoing racist by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe
Joseph Conrad
MURIEL SPARK
Where did she born? Scotland
Muriel Spark converted from Anglicanism to another Christian denomination. Which one? Catholicism
OTHER
continuous flow of sense-perceptions ... stream of consciousness
tendency in British poetry of 20th c. anti-modernist traditionalism... The Movement

Which technical term introduced by a French existentialist novelist-playwright to philosophy, but now
denoting a theatrical movement, has the literal meaning out of tune, foolish absurd
writer from modernist period noted for ... representation of sexuality, came from a working-class D H
Lawrence
two other mythological figures in The Shield of Achilles Thetis, Hephaestus
term dystopia coined by John Stuart Mill
Which romance of Shakespeares is often cited as an example of Renaissance utopianism The Tempest
Most often heard complaints against modernism (Name 2!) Elitism, Pessimism, incomprehensibility
Explain in what way the nigerian writer Chinua Achebe can be brought into connection with Joseph Conrad
and Yeats. Chinua wrote Things Fall Apart as a response to Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness and the title
comes from the poem The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Name two characters from either Howards End or The Rainbow. One male and one female character.
Explain how the male is related to the female. (2 points for each answer) Margaret Schlegel and Henry Wilcox.
Henry Wilcox married Margaret, after his first wife died.
What is the term that can be associated with Pinter and Becket? Theater of the Absurd
What is the name of the scientific building in London that is based on Bacons New Atlantis? ilyen idita egy
krdst, hossz kutakods utn a Solomons House volt az egyetlen, amit tallta.
Two utopias were mentioned during the lectures, one of them was the Cockayne. What was the second one? New
Atlantis
Name two utopian works from the 20th century. A. HUXLEY, Brave New World , G. ORWELL, 1984
Name the brother of an American-born British writer and author of Principles of Psychology (1890) and The
Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) William James
Who described the period of 20th century modernity as the ugly age? Michael Levenson
Stephen Hero is the title of the discarded first version of a major 20 th century Bildungsroman. What is the title of
the final version? A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Melyik m volt a A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man "discarded first version"-je? Stephen Hero
Name two major Irish playwrights associated with the Abbey Theatre? William Yeats, John Synge
Name two English-language plays representing, in their different ways, the theatre of absurd. Waiting for Godot,
The Caretaker
In what way are Oscar Wilde, Henry James historically related to modernism proper? Can you name another major
writer similarly related to the period? They both were creators of aesthetic culture in modernism. Edgar Allan
Poe
Which romance of Shakespeares is often cited as an example of Renaissance utopianism?The Tempest
In 1956 a group of poets . Movement - a group of poets and novelistsPhilip Larkin, Kingsley Amis,
Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Thom Gunn, and Robert Conquest
Which poetic movement (ism) do these poets represent: T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, Hilda
Doolittle, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce?
Imagism
rj kt folyiratot, amelyek a modern mveket npszerstettk? The Egoist, English Review
American born, early modern novelist: Henry James
Famous Irish playwright, best in English Modernism: Shaw
Which group contains the Woolfs? The groups name is a place.: Bloomsbury group