Literature;;One character in this novel is a lawyer who develops a system of classification for tattoos, Tiny Ewell. Other characters include one nicknamed the Prettiest Girl of All Time, who hosts a radio show under the name Madame Psychosis. Many sections of this novel consist of conversations between the cross-dresser Steeply and the quadruple agent Remy Marathe, who is a member of a terrorist group which doesn't want the Great Concavity to be part of Canada. A filmmaker who commits suicide by putting his head in a microwave is the father of the protagonist, who, like John "No Relation" Wayne and Michael Pemulis, is a student at the Enfield Tennis Academy. Taking place largely in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, for 10 points, what is this novel by David Foster Wallace?.;;Infinite Jest
Literature;;The last stanzas of this poem are a meditation on death, with the speaker stating that "the soul, doubtless, is immortal - where a soul can be discerned" and exclaiming "Dust and ashes!" shortly before complaining, "I feel chilly and grown old." Earlier, the speaker of this poem envisions "Shylock's bridge" and "Saint Mark's … where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings," even though he was "never out of England." This poem's seventh stanza describes "those lesser thirds so plaintive, sixths diminished, sigh on sigh." For 10 points, name this Robert Browning poem in which a pianist is transported to eighteenth-century Venice while playing the titular musical composition.;;(A) Toccata of Galuppi's
Literature;;In 2008, this award was won by Atiq Rahimi's novel Stone of Patience. In 1992, it was given to a novel written partially in Creole, entitled Texaco. In 2006, Jonathan Littell won both the Grand Prix du Roman and this award for his novel The Kindly Ones. An award named for Theophraste Renaudot is presented on the same day as this award, and in 1932 that award was given to a book which controversially failed to win this award, Journey to the End of the Night. Other novels to win this award include Under Fire, Man's Fate, and Within a Budding Grove, the second volume of In Search of Lost Time. For 10 points, name this major French literary award which was first presented in 1903.;;(Prix) Goncourt
Literature;;The closing stanza of this poem notes that "at the flaming forge of life our fortunes must be wrought." This poem's title character rejoices when he hears his daughter singing in a choir, because it reminds him of "her mother's voice, singing in Paradise." That character "looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any man," and is described as having muscles "as strong as iron bands" and "large and sinewy hands." This poem also notes that children like to observe the title character, because "they love to see the flaming forge and hear the bellows roar." For 10 points, name this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a man who works "under a spreading chestnut tree.".;;(The) Village Blacksmith
Literature;;Minor characters in this novel include Madame de Trezac and the portrait painter Claud Walsingham Popple. Clare Van Degen refuses to divorce her husband Peter so he can marry the protagonist, despite being in love with her cousin. The protagonist of this novel blackmails her second husband in order to get her marriage annulled, but he conveniently commits suicide, allowing her to marry Raymond de Chelle. She soon tires of Raymond, and marries Elmer Moffatt, whom she had also been married to before meeting Ralph Marvell. For 10 points, name this Edith Wharton novel about Undine Spragg.;;(The) Custom of the Country
Literature;;This character responds "Not madness, war" when his father-in-law exclaims "This is madness!" in response to a coup led by this character. He character is said to have wept in his mother's womb, which is why he is born with his eyes open. He fathers seventeen sons who all have the same name as him and who are all assassinated by being shot in the forehead. During his last years, he spends most of his time carving small gold fish. The first sentence of the novel in which he appears describes his memory of how his father, Jose Arcadio, took him to discover ice. For 10 points, name this first person born in Macondo, a colonel and member of the Buendia family in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.;;(Colonel) Aureliano (Buendia)
Literature;;One of this man's lesser-known works is an angry play about totalitarianism entitled One for the Road. He collaborated with Di Trevis on an adaption of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. At the end of his first play, Bert beats a blind man named Riley when he finds him with his wife, Rose. That play, The Room, bears many similarities to a later play which ends with one character proclaiming "I was the belle of the ball" and which sees Stanley attempt to rape Lulu. He also wrote a play about two hitmen, Ben and Gus, who receive instructions from the titular device. For 10 points, name this playwright of The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter.;;(Harold) Pinter
Literature;;One character in this play responds "Whores, by that rule, are precious" after the title character says that diamonds which have passed through the most jewelers' hands are most precious. Julia, the wife of Castruchio, dies from a poisoned Bible. A character who believes he is a wolf, Ferdinand, says "Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle" upon viewing the corpse of his twin sister, the title character. At the end of this play, Antonio is accidentally killed by Bosola, who then murders the Cardinal. For 10 points, name this play about an Italian noblewoman by John Webster.;;(The) Duchess of Malfi
Literature;;In one story in this collection, the Chief invents stories about the title character, a deformed superhero whose archnemesis is Marcel Dufarge. In another story, Selena Graff argues with Ginnie Mannox over a cab fare. Aside from "The Laughing Man" and "Just Before the War with the Eskimos," it includes a story about Eloise's love for the deceased Walt, "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," and one about Sergeant X's relationship with the title girl, "For Esme - With Love and Squalor." Seymour Glass shoots himself after a day at the beach in its most famous story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." For 10 points, name this descriptively-titled short story collection by J.D. Salinger.;;Nine Stories
Literature;;One of this author's novels is about a cottage frequented by such characters as a former manure-spreader who gets drunk four times a year and a former ship pilot named Captain Hogensen. He also wrote a novel about a collector of manuscripts named Arnas Arnaeus which was published in three parts, including The Bright Jewel and Fire in Copenhagen. In addition to The Fish Can Sing and Iceland's Bell, he wrote a work dealing with the protagonist's relationship with his daughter Asta after he is freed from his servitude to the Bailiff of Myri. For 10 points, name this Icelandic author of a novel about the sheep farmer Bjartur, Independent People.;;(Halldor) Laxness
Literature;;At the end of this story, the protagonist quotes Flaubert's remark that "The man is nothing, the work is everything" after the narrator praises his deductive skill. The protagonist of this story beats the pavement with his stick shortly after noticing the wornness of the knees of Vincent Spaulding's trousers. One character in this story becomes suspicious after being asked by Duncan Ross to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the protagonist discovers that that task is merely an excuse to keep that character out of his shop so that the antagonists can into a bank. For 10 points, name this Arthur Conan Doyle short story in which Jabez Wilson is ostensibly hired to work for the titular group because of his fiery red hair.;;(The) Red(-)Headed League
Literature;;One character in this novel has a dream in which she is held by a man with one arm. That character's aunt begins every entry in her diary with the words "I love you I love you," and her father is a former Imperial Entomologist who discovers a species of moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts. During a performance of The Sound of Music, the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man makes one of the protagonists masturbate him. Ammu is attracted to the titular figure, an Untouchable named Velutha who is blamed for the drowning death of Sophie Mol. For 10 points, name this novel which takes place in Ayemenem and follows a pair of fraternal twins, Estha and Rahel, a Booker Prize winner by Arundhati Roy.;;(The) God of Small Things
Literature;;In one short story by this author, the Crane family destroyed the rose garden of Miss Strangeworth, who has been sending anonymous letters filled with gossip. In addition to "The Possibility of Evil," she wrote a fictionalized memoir called Life Among the Savages. She also wrote a novel which sees Dr. Montague investigate supernatural occurrences in a mansion built by Hugh Crain. This author of The Haunting of Hill House is best known for a story in which Bill Hutchinson draws the black spot, leading his wife Tessie to be stoned to death by the townsfolk. For 10 points, name this author of "The Lottery.".;;(Shirley) Jackson
Literature;;One character in this novel refuses to wash her menstrual rags in the toilet because she doesn't want to get it dirty. It begins with the death from mumps of Nhamo, the brother of the narrator, who does not mourn his death, in part because it allows her to attend a mission school and in part because he used to steal vegetables from her garden patch. Nyasha develops anorexia because of the conflict between Western and Rhodesian culture in this novel, which is narrated by Nyasha's cousin Tambu. For 10 points, name this novel by the Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga.;;Nervous Conditions
Literature;;Mustapha Matura wrote an adaptation of this play set in Trinidad. In this play's second act, one character makes a toast to "pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies." Widow Quin tries to seduce this play's title character on the request of Shawn Keogh, who is betrothed to another character. The title character of this play is nearly hanged after he attempts to kill his father for a second time by hitting him with a loy. At the end of this play, Pegeen laments having lost the title character, Christy Mahon. Causing a riot at its first performance due to the use of the word "shift," for 10 points, what is this play by John Millington Synge?.;;(The) Playboy of the Western World
Literature;;At one point in this poem, the speaker describes a fictitious painting by "a minor lion attending on Gerome." It opens by describing an empty card table, and later the speaker notes that "here under the table all along were those missing feet" before saying, "it's done." The speaker's governess speaks German and French, and is referred to as "Mademoiselle." The speaker describes his search for a German translation of Paul Valery's "Palme." For 10 points, name this poem in which a child waits for a jigsaw puzzle to arrive, written by the author of The Changing Light of Sandover, James Merrill.;;Lost in Translation
Literature;;This author used John Gow as the basis for Captain Cleveland in his novel The Pirate. Two Lancastrians travelling to meet Charles the Bold meet the mysterious title character of his novel Anne of Geierstein. Schubert wrote three songs about Ellen Douglas, a character from this man's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake. One of his novels, which was published as part of the Tales of My Landlord series, tells of the love between Lucy Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood and formed the basis for a Donizetti opera. He also wrote a novel whose protagonist rejects Rebecca for Rowena. For 10 points, name this author of The Bride of Lammermoor and Ivanhoe.;;(Sir) (Walter) Scott
Literature;;Horacio Quiroga wrote a short story collection entitled Stories of Love, Madness and [this]. In a story of this title from Winesburg, Ohio, Elizabeth Willard tells Doctor Reefy about the money hidden underneath her floorboards. Simone de Beauvoir wrote about her mother's battle with cancer in a book entitled A Very Easy [this]. It is described as "a master from Germany" in a poem entitled "Fugue of [this]" by Paul Celan. It is the first word of the title of a short story in which Erik Lonnrot uses the Kabbalah to investigate a series of murders, and in the title of that story it is paired with "the Compass." For 10 points, name this thing which Dylan Thomas claims "shall have no dominion" and which is commanded by John Donne to "be not proud.".;;death
Literature;;The protagonist of this story has a sister named June who is described as "plain and chunky and steady." The protagonist first sees the antagonist while on a date with Eddie, and she is listening to XYZ Sunday Jamboree before their second meeting. The antagonist of this story drives a jalopy with the phrase "man the flying saucers" on the front fender, and threatens the protagonist by describing her house as "nothing but a cardboard box." At the end of this story, Arnold Friend succeeds in coercing Connie to get in his car. For 10 points, name this oft-anthologized story by Joyce Carol Oates which was inspired by three murders committed in Tucson.;;Where Are You Going(,) Where Have You Been?
Literature;;This author's play William Ratcliff was adapted into an opera by Cesar Cui. The speaker pledges to battle the new gods and support the old ones in his poem "The Greek Gods," which is part of the North Sea cycle from his most famous poetry collection. He also wrote an epic poem about a dancing bear who escapes and starts a revolution against humanity, entitled Atta Troll. He is best known for a poem from the Book of Songs about a beautiful maiden who lures sailors to their death with her song. For 10 points, name this German poet of "The Lorelei.".;;(Heinrich) Heine
Literature;;This author wrote, "I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow" in his erotic poem "The Cinnamon Peeler." His poetry collections include The Dainty Monsters and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. His most recent novel follows Anna, Claire, and Coop and is entitled Divisadero. He also wrote a novel in which Patrick Lewis searches for Ambrose Small, and one in which Almasy is nursed by Hana during World War II. For 10 points, name this Canadian author of In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient.;;(Michael) Ondaatje
Literature;;As a child, the protagonist of this novel is delighted to be referred to as "almost pretty," and she is described as "often inattentive, and occasionally stupid," although she is witty enough to note that she "cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." This novel's narrator leaves it to the reader to decide whether it recommends parental tyranny or filial disobedience. Its fifth chapter ends with a digression by the narrator in defense of reading novels. The plot is set in motion when Mr. and Mrs. Allen invite the protagonist on a trip to Bath. Mysterious Warnings and Castle of Wolfenbach are among the "horrid novels" recommended to the protagonist by Isabella Thorpe, although she prefers The Mysteries of Udolpho. For 10 points, name this novel in which Henry Tilney eventually marries Catherine Morland.;;Northanger Abbey
Literature;;As noted by Charles Cowden Clarke, this poem was inspired by a passage containing the line "the sea had soakt his heart through." This poem's speaker tells of having often been told of "one wide expanse" which a certain author "ruled as his demesne," despite never having "breathe[d] its pure serene." The speaker also notes that he has been "round many western islands" and travelled much "in the realms of gold." After performing the titular action, the speaker "felt like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken." He also compares himself to "stout Cortez" staring at the Pacific. For 10 points, name this John Keats poem about the discovery of a certain translation of the work of the author of the Odyssey.;;On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Literature;;One character in this novel, Mr. Luttrell, commits suicide after shooting his dog. This novel's protagonist has her dress stolen by her best friend, Tia, who had earlier stolen three pennies from her. That protagonist has a Martinican servant named Christophine who practises obeah. This novel takes place in the aftermath of the Emancipation Act of 1833, three decades later than the setting of the novel to which it is a prequel. Antoinette Cosway is renamed Bertha Mason after moving to Thornfield to live with her husband, Mr. Rochester, in this novel. For 10 points, name this novel about the "madwoman in the attic" from Jane Eyre, written by Jean Rhys.;;Wide Sargasso Sea
Literature;;One character in this play asks "How do you like that for a declension?" after saying "good, better, best, bested." Another character repeatedly screams "Violence! Violence!" during a climactic scene. That character's husband is mistaken for a mathematics professor, though he actually teaches biology. One of the main characters yells "You can't do that!" after her husband invents a story in which their son swerves to avoid a porcupine and dies in a car crash. Nick and Honey become entangled in the games of the central couple, one of whom answers the titular query by saying "I am, George… I am" at the end of this play. For 10 points, name this play by Edward Albee.;;Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Literature;;This man's early plays include Love and a Bottle and The Constant Couple. His acting career ended when he accidentally wounded another actor during a fight scene in Dryden's The Indian Emperor. Thomas Keneally's The Playmaker deals with the staging of one of this man's plays, in which the womanizing Plume courts Sylvia in Shrewsbury. That play, which in Bertolt Brecht's adaptation was set during the American Civil War, is The Recruiting Officer. Bandits named Gibbet, Hounslow, and Bageshot appear in his most famous work, in which Mrs. Sullen and Dorinda are pursued by Archer and Aimwell. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of The Beaux' Stratagem.;;(George) Farquhar
Literature;;A character in this novel named Miss Mackay asks, "What good will Latin and Greek be to you when you get married or take a job?" The title character of this novel convinces Joyce Hammond to become a fascist, even though her brother is fighting against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. One character in this novel has an affair with Mr. Lloyd, and later becomes a nun named Sister Helena who writes a treatise called The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. The title character educates Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandy at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. For 10 points, name this novel about a schoolteacher by Muriel Spark.;;(The) Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Literature;;This woman's kiss is the subject of the poem "Love Palpable." One poem about this woman is a couplet which runs, "White as Zenobia's teeth, the which the girls / of Rome did wear for their most precious pearls." Another poem compares her nipples to "the pretty beam a strawberry shows half-drown'd in cream." The speaker of one poem claims that the origin of "camphor, storax, spikenard, [and] galbanum" is this woman unlacing herself. The speaker notes "how sweetly flows the liquefaction of" the title garments in the poem "Upon [this woman's] Clothes." For 10 points, name this woman who is the addressee of a whole lot of poems by Robert Herrick.;;Julia
Literature;;Radcliffe Squires described this poem's climactic event as "an inevitability, predetermined by the subjugation of selfhood." The final stanza of this poem begins, "So on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread." Its title character "was always quietly arrayed" and "always human when he talked," even though he "glittered when he walked." That character is also described as being "richer than a king" by the townsfolk, who "wish[ed] that [they] were in his place." For 10 points, name this Edward Arlington Robinson poem which was adapted into a Simon & Garfunkel song in which the title character "put a bullet through his head.".;;Richard Cory
Literature;;At the beginning of this work, the author describes being told by Francis Adirubasamy that he has a story that will make him believe in God. Characters in this novel include Father Martin and Mr. Kumar, who teach the protagonist Christianity and Islam, respectively. Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba refuse to believe the protagonist's story because they don't believe that bananas float. At one point, the protagonist comes upon a carnivorous island made of algae. For much of the story, the protagonist's only companion is Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. For 10 points, name this novel about a boy who drifts on the Pacific Ocean for 277 days after being shipwrecked, a work by Yann Martel.;;Life of Pi
Literature;;This author wrote about a barber shaving a man who once tortured him in the short story "Razor." He criticized Walter Arndt's translation of Eugene Onegin, producing his own copiously notated translation including an appendix which was later published as Notes on Prosody. His last novel published in his lifetime, a fictional autobiography of V. V., is entitled Look at the Harlequins!. A biography of Nikolai Chernyshevsky makes up the fourth chapter of his novel The Gift. His other novels include one which takes place on a world where electricity is banned, Antiterra, and one including a poem whose second canto deals with the suicide of Hazel Shade. For 10 points, name this author of Ada and Pale Fire, who also created Humbert Humbert and Lolita.;;(Vladimir) Nabokov
Literature;;This author wrote a short story whose title character kills himself after stealing $3,000 from Denny & Carson's to take a trip to New York. She also wrote a novel in which the memory of Tom Outland fascinates the titular academic, Godfrey St. Peter. Aside from writing "Paul's Case" and The Professor's House, she wrote a novel in which Joseph Vaillant and the title character, Jean Latour, try to establish a diocese in New Mexico, and one in which Jim Burden narrates the tale of titular Bohemian woman. For 10 points, name this author of Death Comes for the Archbishop and My Ántonia.;;(Willa) Cather
Literature;;The speaker of one poem written in this language says, "I dance between the knives standing in the ring, tips pointing up." That poem is "The Circus Lady" by Celia Dropkin. One short story in this language is about a meek man who goes to Heaven and is offered anything he wants, but chooses to live in poverty as he had on Earth. Aside from I.L. Peretz's "Bontshe the Silent," works written in this language include a short story about a breadmaker named Gimpel and the novel The Magician of Lublin, both of which are by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Another author who wrote in this language was Sholom Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the Dairyman were the inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof. For 10 points, name this language spoken by most Hasidic Jews.;;Yiddish
Literature;;In one play by this author, Hillcrist blackmails Hornblower into selling him a piece of land called The Sentry. In addition to The Skin Game, he wrote a play in which Jones steals the title object from John Barthwick, The Silver Box. He is better known for a series featuring the troubled marriage of Winifred and Montague and Fleur's marriage to Michael Mont. That series is about a man whose wife is more interested in Young Jolyon and Philip Bosinney than in him, and includes the novels To Let and In Chancery. For 10 points, name this author of A Man of Property and the rest of the Forsyte saga.;;(John) Galsworthy
Literature;;One character in this novel knocks Frederick Lawrence off of his horse with a whip out of jealousy. Other characters in this novel include the adulterous Lady Lowborough and Milicent Hargrave's brother Walter. The title character flees Grassdale to protect her son Arthur from his father, who is also named Arthur Huntingdon. Eliza Millward spreads rumours about the title character of this novel after being rejected by Gilbert Markham. The title character of this novel is a supposed widow named Helen Graham who moves into the titular mansion. For 10 points, name this novel by Anne Bronte.;;(The) Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Literature;;In one poem in this collection, the speaker forgives the addressee's "sensual fault," noting that "roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud." Another poem in this collection boasts that "not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme." The speaker of one poem in this collection says, "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, for they in thee a thousand errors note." The last twenty-six poems in this collection are addressed to a woman known as the Dark Lady, but the majority are addressed to a figure known as the Fair Youth. Including a poem beginning "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" and one beginning "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", this is, for 10 points, what set of 154 poems by William Shakespeare?.;;(The) Sonnets (of) (Shakespeare)
Literature;;One poem in this book describes a field rat being killed by a mower being driven through the weeds. It also contains a poem which begins "I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown," entitled "Harvest Song." One section of this work sees Tom Burwell kill Bob Stone because of his love for Louisa. Aside from "Blood-Burning Moon," it contains a section about the beauty of Karintha and one about a teacher who is afraid of being lynched after moving to rural Georgia, "Kabnis." For 10 points, name this collection of poems and short stories about the black experience, a classic work of the Harlem Renaissance by Jean Toomer.;;Cane
Literature;;The title character of this novel has a landlord who continually offers to make him "a nice cup of tea," and is teased mercilessly after ordering fried prawns at a restaurant. One character in this novel makes a pun on Maxim Gorki's name while on a fishing expedition. The only character whom the protagonist has any affection for is his family's maid, Kiyo. Other characters include one nicknamed the Porcupine and one nicknamed Redshirt, both of whom are colleagues of the protagonist, who works under a headmaster nicknamed the Badger. For 10 points, name this novel about a middle school mathematics teacher by Natsume Soseki.;;Botchan
Literature;;This author wrote a "novel in dramatic form" in which Black saves White by jumping in front of the titular train, The Sunset Limited. He wrote a novel which sees Culla abandons his sister Rinthy's baby in the woods to die, Outer Dark. One of his novels is about a man named Cornelius who leaves his family to work as a fisherman on the Tennessee River. He also wrote a novel about a runaway referred to as "the kid" who joins the Glanton gang. In another novel, he wrote about a father and son walking towards the sea through a post-apocalyptic wasteland. For 10 points, name this author of Suttree, Blood Meridian, and The Road.;;(Cormac) McCarthy
Literature;;One character in this novel tells a story about a minister at a wedding accidentally referring to the man as the bride and the woman as the groom. William Dane frames the protagonist of this work for stealing church money in order to marry his fiancee Sarah. One character dies after selling the horse Wildfire, and the discovery of his body leads to his brother's revelation of his previous marriage to Molly. That character, Dunstan Cass, had earlier stolen the fortune of the miserly title character. Eppie chooses to stay with the protagonist despite Godfrey Cass being her biological father. For 10 points, name this novel about the titular weaver of Raveloe, written by George Eliot.;;Silas Marner(:) (The) (Weaver) (of) (Raveloe)
Literature;;This author wrote an novella consisting of a series of letters about the titular chess player, Don Sandalio. His other works include the novel Love and Pedagogy and a novella about a priest who is secretly an atheist, "San Manuel the Good, Martyr." He also wrote a novel about the jealousy between the poet Joaquin and his brother, the titular painter Abel Sanchez, and a "nivola" whose protagonist, Augusto, visits the book's author and discovers that he cannot commit suicide because he is a fictional character. For 10 points, name this member of the Generation of '98 who wrote "The Tragic Sense of Life" and Niebla.;;(Miguel) (de) Unamuno (y) (Jugo)
Literature;;This country is home to the author of An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and How I Became a Nun, Cesar Aira. Other writers from this country include Manuel Mujica Lainez and Roberto Arlt. In Gravity's Rainbow, Francisco Squalidozzi leads a group of anarchists from this country who make a film version of an epic poem by this country's Jose Hernandez. That poem, Martin Fierro, influenced an author from this country who collaborated under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq with Adolfo Bioy Casares. For 10 points, name this country home to the author of Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig, as well as the author of Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges.;;Argentina
Literature;;One character in this play compares nuns to dominoes because they dress in black and white and are prone to falling down, and later declares "Frosty the Snowman" to be heretical. Another character delivers a sermon about gossip which includes a story about a woman being told to cut open a pillow with a knife, as well as a sermon about the titular concept beginning with the line "What do you do when you're not sure?" Sister Aloysius' suspicions about Father Flynn's relationship with a black student, Donald Muller, drive the plot of this play. Subtitled A Parable, for 10 points, what is this winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by John Patrick Shanley?.;;Doubt(:) (A) (Parable)
Literature;;The narrator of this work is mistaken for a character from Hamlet by a count, who gives him a passport as a result. This work's author wrote it in part as a response to a book by Tobias Smollett, whom he caricatured as Smelfungus. Its protagonist hires the flute-playing servant La Fleur, and encounters women such as Madame de L--- and Madame de R---. It ends with the narrator staying in an inn with a lady and accidentally grabbing hold of something, though the identity of that thing is not revealed because the book ends in mid-sentence. For 10 points, name this novel about Parson Yorick's travels through Europe, a work by Laurence Sterne.;;(A) Sentimental Journey (Through) (France) (and) (Italy)
Literature;;One of this author's short stories ends with the narrator saying of the title character, "A couple of years later I went away to college and I didn't know where the fuck she went." That story, "Nilda," is one of several stories by this author narrated by a fatherless New Jersey teenager, several of which were collected in Drown. One section of his most famous work is named after the three heartbreaks of the protagonist's mother, Belicia Cabral. In that novel, the protagonist's family suffers from the fuku curse and grapples with its experiences under Rafael Trujillo's regime. For 10 points, name this author who is best known for about an overweight, fantasy-obsessed Dominican-American, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.;;(Junot) Diaz
Literature;;This is the first name of the protagonist of Marisha Pessl's novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics. The first of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories is named after a cross of this colour. Every appearance of the word "house" in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is in this colour. Novalis's novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen was the origin of the use of a flower of this colour as a symbol of Romanticism. In one Sherlock Holmes story, a carbuncle of this colour is found in the crop of a Christmas goose. For 10 points, name this colour which, in the plural, follows the word "funeral" in the title of a W.H. Auden poem.;;blue
Literature;;At one point in this novel, Portia tells her father about a scam artist named B.F. Mason. One character in this novel starts using his wife Alice's perfume after she dies, and also takes up sewing. Another character is forced to take a job at a five-and-dime store to pay the hospital bills after her brother Bubber shoots another character. Jake Blount, Biff Brannon, Dr. Copeland, and Mick Kelly all confide in the protagonist, who commits suicide after Spiros Antonapoulos dies in an insane asylum. That protagonist is the deaf-mute John Singer. For 10 points, name this novel by Carson McCullers.;;(The) Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Literature;;One character in this poem is described as being "most like a leaping flame," in contrast to another character, who is "most placid in her look." This poem notes that "one may lead a horse to water," but "twenty cannot make him drink" in a section in which one character refuses to open her lips despite being "bullied and besought" by the title figures. This poem contains the cautionary tale of a woman "who should have been a bride, but who for joys brides hope to have fell sick and died," named Jeanie. Enticed by a cry of "Come buy, come buy," one character in this poem trades a lock of her hair for some fruit. For 10 points, name this poem in which Laura is saved from wasting away by Lizzie after buying fruit from some spooky merchants, a work of Christina Rossetti.;;Goblin Market
Literature;;This poet wrote about "poesy's transforming giant wing" in "The Uses of Poetry." The speaker remorsefully addresses his wife in this author's long poem "Asphodel, that Greeny Flower." He also wrote a pastoral poem beginning "on the road to the contagious hospital," the title poem of his collection Spring and All. In one poem by this author, the speaker says "they were delicious, so sweet and so cold" to excuse himself for eating the plums that were in the icebox. That poem is entitled "This Is Just to Say." For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote that "so much depends" on the titular object in "The Red Wheelbarrow.".;;(William) (Carlos) Williams
Literature;;A poem of this title asks "Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?" before noting "How serious people's faces have become." That poem begins by asking "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?" and ends by calling the titular people "a kind of solution." In a novel of this title, Warrant Officer Mandel conducts a mock hanging of the protagonist, who has sexual fantasies about a young girl who belongs to the titular group of people. For 10 points, name this title shared by a Constantine Cavafy poem and a J.M. Coetzee novel in which the magistrate of a frontier town is imprisoned by Colonel Joll.;;Waiting for the Barbarians
Literature;;According to Richard Cureton, the end of this poem's first stanza "has been more closely scrutinized and extensively analyzed than any other single phrase in English literature." Edith Everson claims that its two main characters "are the only ones in the community who are living in the proper sense." When the title character dies, his lover "stooped to kiss his face." This poem describes how "women and men … reaped their sowing and went their came," and how the title character "sang his didn't" and "danced his did." No-one is buried alongside the title character in, for 10 points, what E.E. Cummings poem, which follows the lives of the residents of a nameless town?.;;anyone lived in a pretty how town
Literature;;The title character of one short story by this author uses an impression of a hen laying an egg to win the love of Aurelia Cammarleigh. Aside from "The Reverent Wooing of Archibald," he wrote a number of stories narrated by a character known only as the Oldest Member, including "Ordeal by Golf." Other characters created by this author include Tuppy Glossop and Bingo Little, both members of the Drones Club. Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather are among this man's novels set at Blandings Castle, but his best known works feature a character who is frequently assailed by his Aunt Agatha and usually rescued by his resourceful valet. For 10 points, name this British comic author who created Bertie Wooster and his servant Jeeves.;;(Pelham) (Grenville) Wodehouse
Literature;;Other titles which were considered for this play included A Period of Grace and The Inside of His Head. It opens with a melody played on the flute, reminiscent of "grass and trees and the horizon." The main character of this play opines that "you can't eat the orange and throw the peel away," adding that "a man is not a piece of fruit." He also regrets not going to Alaska with Ben, who became rich mining diamonds in Africa. This play ends with a Requiem in which Linda repeatedly says "We're free" her husband's funeral and is carried away by her son Biff. For 10 points, name this play about Willy Loman by Arthur Miller.;;Death of a Salesman
Literature;;This author wrote about a commissioner who investigates a mysterious and unnamed European town in The Pathseeker. He wrote about Kingbitter's discovery of a play written by B. about the search for an unfinished novel in another work, Liquidation. A Holocaust survivor explains why he cannot bring a child into the world in this author's Kaddish for an Unborn Child. The protagonist of his most famous work befriends Bandi Citrom despite being ostracized by his fellow concentration camp inmates for not being a real Jew. For 10 points, name this Hungarian novelist who wrote Fatelessness.;;(Imre) Kertesz
Literature;;The speaker of one poem by this author states, "They send me to eat in the kitchen, when company comes." The speaker of another of his poems says, "I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records - Bessie, bop, or Bach." Aside from "I, Too" and "Theme for English B," he wrote a poem which asks "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?," referring to a dream deferred. He also wrote about the Euphrates, the Congo, and other rivers in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote The Weary Blues.;;(Langston) Hughes
Literature;;In one novel by this author, the title character is bribed not to treat Cesar Vallejo, who is unable to stop hiccupping. One collection by this man includes a poem that notes that "when it left, death didn't even close our eyes," entitled "Godzilla in Mexico." In addition to writing Monsieur Pain and The Romantic Dogs, he wrote about Father Urrutia's deathbed confession in his novel By Night in Chile. In Amulet, he wrote about Auxilio Lacouture, a poet who first appeared in a novel about the search for Cesarea Tinajero, The Savage Detectives. For 10 points, name this Chilean author of 2666, many of whose works feature his alter ego, Arturo Belano.;;(Roberto) Bolano
Literature;;One author of this surname wrote a short story about a man named Denton awaiting his death at the hands of three men and a machine. That author of this surname recently suggested that euthanasia booths should be placed on street corners, and his most recent novel is The Pregnant Widow. Another author of this surname won the Booker Prize for The Old Devils but is better known for a novel in which James Dixon becomes Gore-Urquhart's private secretary. That author is the father of the author of London Fields and Time's Arrow. For 10 points, give this surname shared by the author of Money, Martin, and the author of Lucky Jim, Kingsley.;;Amis
Literature;;A minor character in this novel claims to have killed Hitler by blowing pepper into his eyes and stabbing him. Other characters include a female midget who turns into a four-headed spirit while dancing with the protagonist, and a blind old man who can see when he wants to. Another character is a bar owner who joins the Party of the Rich and becomes fatter the richer she gets, Madame Koto. The protagonist's father, a boxer who defeats Yellow Jaguar and Green Leopard, tells him the story of a giant with a voracious appetite whose stomach becomes the title path. The protagonist decides to stay in the world of the living despite being constantly beckoned to return to the spirit world. For 10 points, name this novel about the abiku Azaro by Ben Okri.;;(The) Famished Road
Literature;;One character in this story reminisces about her son Dan, who was adept at hunting partridges and squirrels. Another character in this story is a "plodding, dilatory, provoking creature" named Mistress Moolly. The protagonist of this story watches a toad while a guest of her grandmother, Mrs. Tilley, tells of his quest to find the titular creature. In this story's second section, Sylvia climbs the tallest tree in the woods to observe the titular bird's nest, but refuses to cause its death by telling a hunter its location. For 10 points, name this 1886 short story by Sarah Orne Jewett.;;(A) White Heron
Literature;;This work notes that "love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love." It describes beauty as "eternity gazing at itself in the mirror" and pain as "the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." Its other sections deal with such subjects as "Buying and Selling," "Joy and Sorrow," and "Good and Evil." It opens with the arrival of a ship, and ends by noting "There are no graves here" after the seeress Almitra blesses the day. It consists of dialogues between the people of Orphalese and the title character, al-Mustafa. For 10 points, name this book of twenty-six poetic essays by Khalil Gibran.;;(The) Prophet
Literature;;This author's translations of Wang Wei, Du Fu, and Li Po were collected in the book Three Chinese Poets. His own poetic output includes a poem which begins, "Some men like Jack and some like Jill, I'm glad I like them both." That poem, "Dubious," appeared in his first poetry collection, Mappings. A translation by Charles Johnston inspired his novel in verse set in Francisco. He also wrote an epically long novel set in Nehru's India which follows Rupa Mehra's search for a husband for her daughter Lata. For 10 points, name this author of The Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy.;;(Vikram) Seth
Literature;;This character asks "You would prefer sand?" after another character tells Una Pringle that she "would not want marriage with stone." One of this character's companions has a deformed sister who once pushed him out of an open window. Another of his companions writes a poem beginning, "When they had opened us with knives, they took out our hearts," entitled "Childhood." Those companions are Palfreyman and Frank Le Mesurier, respectively. This character stays with the Sandersons at Hunter Valley and Boyles at Darling Downs before embarking on a journey backed by Edmund Bonner, the uncle of a woman who adopts Rose Portion's orphaned child, Laura Trevelyan. For 10 points, name this German who travels across Australia in a novel by Patrick White.;;(Johann) (Ulrich) Voss
Literature;;Three of the sections of this work are followed by epigrammatic "workpoints," including a series of "character-squeezes" describing Teresa di Petromonti as a "farded Berenice" and Fuad El Said as a "black moon-pearl." Its third section climaxes with a confrontation between Narouz and Nessim, while the climax of its first section is the supposed death of Capodistria during a duck-shoot on Lake Mareotis. The title character of its first section is the subject of Arnauti's novel Moeurs and is a lover of the narrator of much of this work, L.G. Darley, like the title character of its last section, Clea. For 10 points, name this series also including the novels Justine, Balthasar, and Mountolive, a novel cycle by Lawrence Durrell taking place in the title city.;;(The) Alexandria Quartet
Literature;;In one story by this author, the narrator gets drunk while babysitting in order to forget about being dumped by Martin Collingwood. That story appears in a collection whose title story sees a group of mentally disabled children play at a piano recital. The mathematician Sofia Kovalevsky is the subject of the title story in her most recent collection, Too Much Happiness. She is better known for a short story cycle in which Del Jordan tells of her life in the town of Jubilee and the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain," which was adapted by Sarah Polley into the film Away from Her. For 10 points, name this Canadian writer of such short story collections as Runaway, Dance of the Happy Shades, and Lives of Girls and Women.;;(Alice) Munro
Literature;;Hilarious scenes in this novel include Agatha Runcible drunkenly attempting to drive a race car, and Colonel Blount's conversation with the protagonist at Doubting Hall. The protagonist is owed a large sum of money by a Major who can never remember to pay him back because he is always drunk. The protagonist of this novel is fired from the Daily Excess after inventing characters such as the Italian nobleman Count Cincinnati to include in his gossip column, "Mr. Chatterbox." Adam Fenwick-Symes's love affair with Nina is the subject of, for 10 points, what Evelyn Waugh novel which satirized the Bright Young People?.;;Vile Bodies
Literature;;Stories in this collection include one in which the narrator describes his childhood crush Linda, who dies of brain cancer, and one in which Elroy Berdahl shelters the protagonist in the Tip Top Lodge. One minor character in this work is Dave Jensen, who sings "Lemon Tree" while cleaning the remains of Curt Lemon out of a tree. In another story in this collection, Azar helps the narrator get revenge on Bobby Jorgenson, the replacement for the medic Rat Kiley, who had earlier shot himself in the foot. The protagonist of the title story blames his infatuation with Martha for Ted Lavender's death; that character is Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. For 10 points, "The Man I Killed" and "How to Tell a True War Story" are included in what short story collection about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War by Tim O'Brien?.;;The Things They Carried
Literature;;This author's only play is about a Greek scientist who invents the steam engine, the printing press, and gunpowder. He described the painter Samuel Mountjoy's imprisonment in a POW camp in the novel Free Fall. Close Quarters and Fire Down Below form a trilogy with a novel about Edmund Talbot's trip to Australia, Rites of Passage. He wrote about the destruction of the Neanderthals by Homo sapiens in The Inheritors. In his best known work, Simon is killed when he is mistaken for the beast by a tribe led by Jack, who later steals Piggy's glasses to make a fire. For 10 points, name this author of Lord of the Flies.;;(William) Golding
Literature;;A literary academy of this name was founded in 1690 by Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, among others. It is the name of Tom Crane's ship in T.C. Boyle's World's End, as well as the title of a poem about the lovelorn Sincero by Jacopo Sannazaro. It is also the name of a long work by Sir Philip Sidney sometimes named after the Countess of Pembroke. A play of this title includes the character Hannah Jarvis, the author of a book about Lord Byron's mistress, Lady Caroline Lamb. For 10 points, name this word which titles a play about Septimus Hodge and Thomasina Coverley by Tom Stoppard.;;Arcadia
Literature;;One character in this story watches starlings flying across the lawn shortly after saying of the title character, "His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death." That character believes a ritual involving nutmeg is responsible for the toothache suffered by another character, who also forbids him from eating toast, because the making of it gives trouble. The protagonist keeps a Houdan hen, which he decides is an Anabaptist, in addition to the title creature. For 10 points, name this Saki short story in which Mrs. de Ropp is killed by a polecat-ferret which is worshipped as a god by Conradin.;;Sredni Vashtar
Literature;;This author wrote about Gianni Agnelli's face being replaced by that of Antonio Berardi in the play About Face. He wrote a play whose title character, who was portrayed by his wife Franca Rame in the original run, suspects that Shakespeare created Hamlet as a parody of her. That play is entitled Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman. One of his plays sees Antonia pretend to celebrate the Festival of Saint Eulalia in order to cover up the fact that she stole food from a supermarket. In addition to We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, he wrote a play in which the Maniac impersonates a judge during the investigation of the title character's plunge from a fourth-floor window. For 10 points, name this Italian playwright of Accidental Death of an Anarchist.;;(Dario) Fo
Literature;;At one point, this character tries to catch a pigeon with a lacrosse stick while on the roof of an infirmary at Steering School. In a climactic scene, a car accident causes his wife to bite off part of her lover Michael Milton's penis. His writings include a work whose title character is Bensenhaver, as well as a short story in which a unicycle-riding bear stays at the title location, "The Pension Grillparzer." This character is named after a ball turret gunner who is raped by the author of A Sexual Suspect, Jenny Fields. He is murdered by Pooh Percy, a member of the Ellen Jamesians, who cut out their tongues in solidarity with a rape victim. For 10 points, name this character whose "world" is the subject of a bildungsroman by John Irving.;;(T(.)S(.)) Garp
Literature;;In the seventh chapter of this novel, the protagonist dreams of three giants who represent his brothers and who ask for his "saving hand." Cico tells the protagonist that the weight of humanity's sins would cause the land to be swallowed by an underground lake, a prophecy made by the golden carp. Characters who die in this novel include the drunkard Narciso and the war veteran Lupito, who is killed by a mob after killing the sheriff. A character known as "the flying man" gives the title character her spirit familiar, an owl which is killed by Tenorio Trementina, causing the title character's death. For 10 points, name this novel about Antonio Marez and the titular faith healer, by Rudolfo Anaya.;;Bless Me(,) Ultima
Literature;;The narrator of this novel likes to use the English phrase "what a fucking joke," which he learned from Pinky Madam, the ex-wife of a man who employs him as a chauffeur and ends up being murdered by the protagonist, who describes himself as a "social entrepreneur." The protagonist is nicknamed after the titular creature, which is described as showing up only once a generation. That protagonist, whose story is told in a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, is named Balram Halwai. For 10 points, name this 2008 Booker Prize winner by Aravind Adiga.;;(The) White Tiger
Literature;;One writer from this country wrote about Salie and her brother Madicke in The Belly of the Atlantic, and another writer from this country wrote Scarlet Song as well as a novel written in the form of a letter from Ramatoulaye to Aissatou, So Long a Letter. Aside from Fatou Diome and Mariama Ba, authors from this country include one who wrote Xala, which he later adapted into a film, as well as a novel about a railroad strike, God's Bits of Wood. That author, Ousmane Sembene, is not as famous as a poet from this country, who, along with Aime Cesaire, created the concept of Negritude. For 10 points, name this country which was home to Leopold Senghor.;;(Republic) (of) Senegal
Literature;;One poem of this type begins "Every day our bodies separate, exploded torn and dazed." That poem, dedicated to D.G.B., is by Marilyn Hacker, who is considered a master of this form. The speaker of another poem of this type repeats the refrain "I think I made you up inside my head"; that poem is Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song." More famous examples include "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and a poem which appears in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Theodore Roethke's "The Waking." The most famous example of this form exhorts the addressee to "rage, rage against the dying of the light." For 10 points, name this poetic form exemplified by Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night.".;;villanelle
Literature;;The preface to this work discusses "how War muzzles the Dramatic Poet" and acknowledges the influence of Chekhov's "four fascinating dramatic studies" of pre-war Europe. In Act II of this play, one character says "Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen in the world." At one point in this play, a former husband of Nurse Guinness pretends to be a burglar in order to gain charity. Mangan is affianced to Mazzini Dunn's daughter Ellie, although she is in love with Hector, the husband of Hesione Hushabye. Mangan is presumably killed in a zeppelin attack at the end of this play after fleeing the title structure, which was built in the shape of ship by Captain Shotover. For 10 points, name this "fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes" by George Bernard Shaw.;;Heartbreak House
Literature;;This author wrote a satirical fairytale in response to having to pay a marginal tax rate of 102%, entitled "Pomperipossa in Monismania." Birk Borkason befriends the title character in this author's fantasy novel Ronia the Robber's Daughter. Her series include one about the detective Bill Bergson and one about the six Bullerby siblings. She also created a character who can fly by pressing a button on his stomach, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, as well as an unusually strong ponytailed redhead who is "in the South Seas" in the title of one book. For 10 points, name this Swedish children's author who created Pippi Longstocking.;;(Astrid) Lindgren
Literature;;This poet wrote "Nothing is so beautiful as" the titular season in the poem "Spring." He also asked "Margaret, are you grieving over Goldengrove unleaving?" in the poem "Spring and Fall." In another of his poems, the titular thing "gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed." In addition to "God's Grandeur," he wrote a poem about the death of a farrier named Felix Randal. He also wrote a curtal sonnet which begins "Glory be to God for dappled things" and a poem dedicated "to Christ our Lord" about a "dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon." For 10 points, name this proponent of sprung rhythm who wrote "Pied Beauty" and "The Windhover.".;;(Gerard) (Manley) Hopkins
Literature;;One character in this novel tells of how Jerco committed suicide after the death of Rosalind Whicher. That character is reading Alphonse Daudet's Sapho when we first meet him, and working as a railroad waiter along with the protagonist. Other characters in this novel include Billy Biasse, who lends the protagonist a gun to protect himself from Zeddy. The protagonist's lovers include Congo Rose and Felice, the latter of whom leaves the title location with him to go to Chicago at the end of this work. For 10 points, name this novel about Jake Brown's return to a New York neighbourhood, a work by Claude McKay.;;Home to Harlem
Literature;;Robert Benchley wrote a parody of it entitled "Compiling [this novel]." The protagonist of this novel has a sister named Esta who is impregnated and abandoned by her lover. When that protagonist is working in a hotel in Kansas City, he falls in love with Hortense Briggs. Later, he lusts after the wealthy Sondra Finchley despite having impregnated Roberta Alden. While canoeing on Big Bittern Lake, he knocks Roberta unconscious with a camera and she drowns, leading to his conviction for murder. For 10 points, name this novel about the execution of Clyde Griffiths by Theodore Dreiser.;;(An) American Tragedy
Literature;;One character in this work compares another character to Daedalus in his ability to make things move. That character later quotes a poem of Stasinus which states that "where there is fear there is also reverence." This work's central subject is compared to the tending of animals, and the difference between carrying and being carried is also discussed. The title character of this work has come to the porch of the king archon in order to lay murder charges against his father, where he agrees to help Socrates fight the charges of Meletus. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue whose namesake dilemma asks whether the pious is loved by the gods because it is pious, or pious because it is loved by the gods.;;Euthyphro
Literature;;A character in one of this author's poems claims that "it is this backward motion toward the source, against the stream, that most we see ourselves in" while discussing the titular waterway. In another poem, this author compares the two titular ways in which the world might end. In another of his poems, the speaker boasts of having "outwalked the furthest city light." Aside from "West-Running Brook," "Fire and Ice," and "Acquainted with the Night," he wrote a poem in which a husband and wife argue about the death of their child and one in which Mary and Warren argue about the titular employee, Silas. For 10 points, name this poet of "Home Burial" and "The Death of the Hired Man," who also wrote "Mending Wall.".;;(Robert) Frost
Literature;;In one play by this author, three characters in large urns talk deliver rapid-fire monologues about a love affair. In another, the only part of the stage which is illuminated is the mouth of a character who describes events from her life. In one play, he wrote about two legless characters who live in trash cans, Nagg and Nell, who are the parents of the blind old man Hamm. Another character created by this author is addicted to bananas and listens to recordings of himself on his sixth-ninth birthday. His most famous work sees Pozzo command his slave Lucky to dance in order to entertain Vladimir and Estragon. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, and Waiting for Godot.;;(Samuel) Beckett
Literature;;One author of this first and last name wrote a novel in which Denise Crowder is murdered after meeting Daniel Fielding at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In addition to Adultery, that author also wrote an epistolary novel in which the title character corresponds with her sister Nora, who is a radio soap opera star; that novel is entitled Clara Callan. Another author of this first and last name is not Albert Camus, although he wrote an existentialist novel entitled The Outsider. That author also wrote a collection including stories such as "Bright and Morning Star" and "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," as well as a novel about Mary Dalton's murderer, Bigger Thomas. For 10 points, give this first and last name shared by a Giller Prize-winning Canadian novelist and the American author of Uncle Tom's Children and Native Son.;;Richard Wright
Literature;;In one of this author's short stories, a group of pretzel-makers threaten Tanya after she is seduced by a soldier. He also wrote a poem in which "the seagulls groan before the storm" but the titular bird is unafraid of the storm, which symbolizes revolution. In addition to "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" and "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl," he wrote a play set during a cholera epidemic which centres on Protassoff and Lisa, Children of the Sun. Another of his plays is set in a boarding-house run by Kostilyoff. For 10 points, name this founder of socialist realism who wrote The Lower Depths.;;(Maxim) Gorky
Literature;;Insects mentioned in this poem include "the cricket on the hearth" and "the bee with honeyed thigh that at her flowery work doth sing."The speaker invokes a goddess whom "bright-haired Vesta long of yore, to solitary Saturn bore," and concludes by telling her, "I with thee will choose to live." It begins, "Hence vain deluding joys, the brood of folly without father bred," and later instructs the reader to "hail divinest Melancholy." For 10 points, name this melancholic poem by John Milton, the companion piece to "L'Allegro.".;;Il Penseroso
Literature;;This author described "each rifleshot hammerstroke" as "another notch in the silence" in the title poem of his most recent poetry collection, Typewriter Music. He wrote about Jim Saddler, who sees his friend Clancy killed during World War I, in the novel Fly Away Peter. He created Digger Keen and Vic Curran, who were both imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II, in his novel The Great World. In his most famous novel, the lives of Lachlan Beattie and his cousins Janet and Meg are affected when the McIvor family takes in Gemmy Fairley, an Englishman who is stranded in Australia. For 10 points, name this Australian author of Remembering Babylon.;;(David) Malouf
Literature;;He wrote a novel in which Danusia is kidnapped by the titular group, who are later defeated at the Battle of Grunwald. In addition to The Teutonic Knights, he wrote a novel in which Pan Yan spares the life of the villainous Bogun. That novel, set during the Khmelnytsky rebellion, forms a trilogy along with The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe and is entitled With Fire and Sword. His most famous novel features such historical figures as Petronius and Tigellinus as well as fictitious characters such as Marcus Vinicius and Ligia, and takes place during the Christian persecutions under Nero. For 10 points, name this Polish author of Quo Vadis.;;(Henryk) Sienkiewicz
Literature;;In an allusion to Lewis Carroll, one of this novel's sections is entitled "Sylvie & Bruno Concluded." Aside from Sylvie and Bruno, characters in this novel include a magician who uses memory palaces for divination, Ariel Hawksquill, and a charismatic despot who is a reincarnation of Frederick Barbarossa named Russell Eigenblick. Many of this novel's scenes are set in Edgewood, a country house which is larger inside than outside, as hinted at by the novel's title. Smoky Barnable marries a daughter of the Drinkwater family in, for 10 points, what fantasy novel which was notably included by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon, a work by John Crowley?.;;Little(,) Big(:) (or(,)) (The) (Fairies') (Parliament)
Literature;;This man wrote a poem whose title figure is described as being "bright with the armpit-dazzle of a lioness," "Watermaid." Many of his poems make reference to the a deity who dwells in a river, mother Idoto, including "The Passage," which is the opening poem in his collection Heavensgate. The speaker of one of his poems, which was intended to be read "with drum accompaniment," asks mother Earth to unbind him before saying, "let this be my last testament." That poem, "Elegy for Alto," was the final poem in the sequence Path of Thunder. For 10 points, name this Nigerian poet who was killed fighting for Biafran independence.;;(Christopher) Okigbo
Literature;;One character in this novel dies after a talisman of Hecate is stolen from under his pillow. The protagonist of this novel overhears two historians, one of whom writes beautifully but not factually and the other of whom writes factually but not beautifully, arguing about the correct way to write history. At one point in this novel, Livia frames Postumus for raping her granddaughter in order to have him exiled. The Sibyl at Cumae prophesies that the protagonist will "speak clear" nineteen hundred years hence, despite his stutter. This novel ends with the title character's ascension after Cassius Chaerea's assassination of Caligula. For 10 points, name this novel by Robert Graves about the titular Roman emperor.;;I(,) Claudius
Literature;;This poem contains a passage in which a poet retells the story of the fight at Finnesburg, which is also told in a fragment included in Frederick Klaeber's edition of this poem. A 1936 lecture on this poem argued that it should be studied as a text rather than as a historical document, and was subtitled "The Monsters and the Critics." This poem opens by describing the sea burial of Scyld Scefing. Wiglaf is the only person to accompany the protagonist during his attempt to slay a dragon, which takes place years after he kills the two other primary antagonists. For 10 points, name this epic poem about a hero who saves Hrothgar from the monster Grendel.;;Beowulf
Literature;;This author wrote a short story about the elevator operator Charlie who gets showered with gifts after falsely claiming to have two dead children. In addition to "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor," he wrote a story in which Irene Westcott uses the title device to listen in on her neighbours, "The Enormous Radio." He also wrote a novel about a family whose members include Leander and his sons Moses and Coverly, and a story in which Neddy Merrill decides to return home from a party at the Westerhazys' by swimming through his neighbours' pools. For 10 points, name this author of The Wapshot Chronicle and "The Swimmer.".;;(John) Cheever
Literature;;The entrance to this circle of Hell is guarded by the Minotaur, and Nessus guides Dante and Virgil across the Phlegethon in this circle. One denizen of this circle is Dante's mentor, Brunetto Latini, who wanders around a plain constantly rained upon by "dilated flakes of fire." Other denizens of this circle are transformed into trees as punishment for committing suicide. Dante and Virgil are transported from this circle to the next, which is divided into ten bolgie, by the monster Geryon. For 10 points, name this circle of Hell which is divided into three rings, which house the violent against their neighbours, the violent against themselves, and the violent against God and nature, respectively, in the Divine Comedy.;;Seventh (Circle) (of) (Hell)
Literature;;This writer wrote a sequel to one of his novels in which the titular location is "revisited" and the protagonist becomes the centre of the church of Sunchildism. He argued that the Odyssey was written by a Sicilian woman in The Authoress of the Odyssey. He also wrote an essay arguing that technology could develop a "mechanical consciousness" through natural selection and destroy humanity, "Darwin among the Machines." One of his novels is narrated by Overton, the godfather of Ernest Pontifex. He wrote a satirical novel in which Higgs discovers the titular utopian society. For 10 points, name this author of The Way of All Flesh and Erewhon.;;(Samuel) Butler
Literature;;This author wrote about Otto Hogan, a restaurateur who refuses to take bribes, in the play Beef, No Chicken. He wrote about his "schizophrenic boyhood" in the autobiographical essay "What the Twilight Says." That essay was published as a preface to a play in which Makak beheads the white goddess before being released from prison, Dream on Monkey Mountain. He also wrote a poem which concludes, "How can I turn from Africa and live?" His most famous work features the characters Dennis and Maud Plunkett and sees Ma Kilman heal the wound on the leg of the fisherman Philoctete. For 10 points, name this author of an epic poem in which Achille and Hector vie for the love of Helen, Omeros.;;(Derek) Walcott
Literature;;One character in this novel is a taciturn widow referred to as "the lady in black." It opens with images of a parrot speaking French and a whistling mockingbird. Doctor Mandelet offers the protagonist help, but she instead seeks advice from the pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, who receives letters from another character who is in Mexico. The protagonist has an affair with Alcee Arobin despite her love for Robert Lebrun. The wife of Leonce ultimately commits suicide by wading into the Gulf of Mexico in, for 10 points, what novel about Edna Pontellier by Kate Chopin?.;;(The) Awakening
Literature;;This poem takes its title from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Requiem." Its middle stanza discusses "fools in old-style hats and coats, who half the time were soppy-stern and half at one another's throats." Focusing on a pair of figures who "fill you with the faults they had and add some extra, just for you," this poem appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows. Ending by telling the addressee to "get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself," for 10 points, what is this Philip Larkin poem which notes "They fuck you up, your mum and dad"?.;;This Be the Verse
Literature;;The story which gives this collection its title features a narrator who encounters a girl named Marianna after climbing a mountain in search of fairies. Its final story tells of an architect named Bannadonna who is killed by a mechanism which he created for the titular bell tower. Another story discusses the two sides of tortoises as well as relating the tale of a stranded Chola widow, Hunilla. That story is a series of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands, "The Encantadas." Also including a story about a slave rebellion on Amasa Delano's ship and one about a man who likes to say "I would prefer not to," for 10 points, name this short story collection including "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and four other stories by Herman Melville.;;(The) Piazza Tales
Literature;;This author wrote about the annoyances of fax machines in an essay collected in How to Travel with a Salmon. His most recent novel sees Giambattista Bodoni suffer a stroke which causes him to forget almost everything. He also wrote a novel about a shipwrecked nobleman who obsesses about his evil twin. In addition to The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana and The Island of the Day Before, he wrote a novel about a man who searches for the kingdom of Prester John, Baudolino, and one in which William of Baskerville attempts to solve a series of murders in an abbey. For 10 points, name this author of The Name of the Rose.;;(Umberto) Eco
Literature;;According to Brian McHale, this development of this literary movement was characterized by a shift from epistemology to ontology. One member of this movement wrote an essay describing the "used-upness of certain forms" in the movement preceding it, entitled "The Literature of Exhaustion." This movement was criticized as suffering from a "crisis in historicity" in a work subtitled "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Frederic Jameson. It was famously defined as "incredulity towards metanarratives" in a work by Jean-Francois Lyotard about its namesake "condition." For 10 points, name this literary movement practised by such authors as Robert Coover and John Barth, which was preceded by modernism.;;postmodernism
Literature;;The introduction to this play gives the spectator permission to criticize it, as long as they do not "censure by contagion," and only criticize in proportion to how much they paid to see it. One character in this play is pilloried after being falsely accused by the cutpurse Ezekiel Edgworth. A Puritan named Zeal-of-the-Land Busy is also pilloried for preaching without a license, and later calls a performance of Hero and Leander an abomination because the actors are cross-dressed, even though the actors are puppets. The plot is set in action when Quarlous, Winwife, and Littlewit plot to win Dame Purecraft at the title event. For 10 points, name this Ben Jonson play about a summer festival.;;Bartholomew Fair(:) (A) (Comedy)
Literature;;This author created Vincent, who flees to Upward Island after being expelled from the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, in the story "The Puzzling Nature of Blue." In one of this author's novels, the title character serves as an inspiration for the novelist Tobias Oates, who is based on Charles Dickens. In addition to writing Jack Maggs, he created the 139-year-old charlatan Herbert Badgery, who narrates his novel Illywhacker. One of his novels is written in the style of the Jerilderie letter, with little punctuation, and another of his novels is about a bet made by the two title characters involving transporting a glass church from Sydney to Bellingen. For 10 points, name this Australian author who won the Booker Prize for both True History of the Kelly Gang and Oscar and Lucinda.;;(Peter) Carey
Literature;;One play by this author centers on the singer of the hit song "That's All Right," Floyd Barton. Another of this author's characters brings Martha and Zonia together by singing a Binding Song. That character appears in a play whose name derives from the refrain of a blues song, Joe Turner's Come and Gone. A blues singer refuses to perform Levee's version of the titular song in his play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Berniece refuses to let Boy Willie sell the titular instrument in another play. For 10 points, name this playwright who included The Piano Lesson as well as a play about the garbage collector Troy Maxson, Fences, in his Pittsburgh Cycle.;;(August) Wilson
Literature;;In one poem, this poet threatens to send the addressee three hundred more poems if he doesn't return a napkin he stole. A line from this poet is the source of the title of a short story collection edited by Jeffrey Eugenides. He wrote an elegiac couplet whose speaker states "I hate and I love." One of his poems begins, "Wandering through many countries and over many seas, I come, my brother, to these sorrowful obsequies." That poem, which ends with the words "ave atque vale," is addressed to the "silent ashes" of his brother. Many of his poems are thought to be addressed to Clodia Metelli. For 10 points, name this Roman poet many of whose poems are about his mistress Lesbia.;;Catullus
Literature;;This author wrote a poem on his own death which begins by discussing Rochefoucauld's maxim that "in the hard times of our best friends we find something that doesn't displease us." In another poem by this man, Strephon is dismayed to discover that "Celia, Celia, Celia shits!" In addition to "The Lady's Dressing Room," he wrote a satirical essay which cites "the famous Psalmanazar, a native of the island of Formosa." He warned that the titular action would cause a stock market crash in "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity," and wrote a series of pamphlets against William Wood's monopoly on copper coinage. For 10 points, name this satirist who wrote Drapier's Letters and suggested that the Irish should engage in cannibalism in "A Modest Proposal.".;;(Jonathan) Swift
Literature;;One poem by this poet begins, "The swung torch scatters seeds in the umbelliferous dark." This poet wrote that "there is a moment when the pelvis explodes like a grenade" in a poem whose title is taken from Francois Villon, "Petit Testament." The speaker concludes "I am still the black swan of trespass on alien waters" in his poem "Durer: Innsbruck, 1495." In 1944, his poem cycle "The Darkening Ecliptic" was published in Max Harris's magazine of modernist poetry, Angry Penguins, despite its utter lack of literary merit. For 10 points, name this fictitious Australian poet who was invented as a hoax by James McAuley and Harold Stewart.;;(Ernest) (Ern) Malley
Literature;;Virginia Hlavsa connected this novel's twenty-one chapters with the twenty-chapters in the Gospel of St. John. As a child, the protagonist makes himself sick by eating toothpaste after discovering the dietitian Miss Atkins having a tryst with an intern. One subplot in this novel concerns a reverend who is obsessed with his Confederate grandfather's exploits, Gail Hightower. Another subplot follows a woman who walks to Jefferson to search for Lucas Burch, the father of her unborn child. The protagonist of this novel is shot and castrated by Percy Grimm after cutting the throat of his lover, Joanna Burden. For 10 points, name this William Faulkner novel about Joe Christmas.;;Light in August
Literature;;The central character of the second novel in this trilogy travels to Zurich to meet with the Jungian analyst Johanna von Haller. One character in this trilogy acts as an understudy for Sir John Tresize under the name Mungo Fetch and becomes a magician after being abducted by Willard, performing under the name Magnus Eisengrim. At the end of the first book in this trilogy, the Brazen Head answers "He was killed by the usual cabal" when asked "Who killed Boy Staunton?" A character who is hit by a snowball at the beginning of this work, Mary Dempster, is seen as a saint by Dunstan Ramsay. For 10 points, name this trilogy consisting of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, a work of Robertson Davies.;;(The) Deptford (Trilogy)
Literature;;Mark Underwood is among the title characters who frequent the Palladium in his first novel, The Picturegoers. Tubby becomes obsessed with Kierkegaard in his novel Therapy. One of his characters is working on a thesis entitled "The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels"; that character is the protagonist of The British Museum Is Falling Down. He wrote about an exchange between the universities of Plotinus and Rummidge in Changing Places, and the University of Rummidge also features in two other novels by this man. For 10 points, name this author of Small World and Nice Work, whose novels often satirize academia.;;(David) Lodge
Literature;;One author with this surname was a Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote collections such as Bronze and An Autumn Love Cycle. Another author of this surname wrote a short story collection narrated by a recovering heroin addict, Jesus' Son, as well as the novels Fiskadoro and Tree of Smoke. This surname is also shared by the author of a novel about a ragtime musician who passes as a white man, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. The most famous author with this surname wrote an imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," as well as a single novel about the titular prince of Abyssinia, Rasselas. For 10 points, name this surname possessed by the author of an early dictionary of the English language, who was famously the subject of a biography by James Boswell.;;Johnson
Literature;;An institution in this novel bans Sherlock Holmes stories from its library because the main characters smoke too much. Miss Lucy is one of the teachers at that institution, though she later leaves under mysterious circumstances. The protagonist of this novel enjoys looking at pornographic magazines in order to find her "possible." A character named Madame sees the protagonist crying while listening to a cassette tape of Songs After Dark by Judy Bridgewater, one of whose songs lends this novel its name. Ruth and Tommy are among the students at Hailsham in, for 10 points, what Kazuo Ishiguro novel about Kathy H., a clone who is destined to become an organ donor?.;;Never Let Me Go
Literature;;One of this author's title characters travels to Romania with his wife Minna. The title character of his final novel asks the narrator to write a memoir about him, since he is dying of AIDS. Another of his title characters has been divorced by both Daisy and Madeleine, and spends much of his time composing letters that he never actually sends. Another is a writer who mentors Charlie Citrine named Von Humboldt Fleisher. Yet another of his title characters begins the novel which he narrates by stating, "I am an American, Chicago born." For 10 points, name this author of Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March.;;(Saul) Bellow
Literature;;One poem in this collection ends with "the beating of a bloody fist upon a splintered table" and is entitled "The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message." Its first poem, "Trying to Talk with a Man," begins, "Out in this desert we are testing bombs, that's why we came here." This collection also includes a poem describing the effect of strip mining on the "lovely landscape of southern Ohio," "When We Dead Awaken." The speaker of the title poem loads the camera and reads the book of myths before putting on "the body-armor of black rubber" to enter the title location, "not like Cousteau with his assiduous team … but here alone." For 10 points, name this 1973 poetry collection by Adrienne Rich.;;Diving into the Wreck
Literature;;One character in this novel is upset by the discovery of a birdcage with the body of a goldfinch in it. The title character leaves a will insisting that he not be buried in consecrated ground and that nobody should mourn him. The former relationship between two characters is revealed when Jopp reads some love letters aloud in an inn, leading to a skimmington ride which causes Lucetta Templeton's death. Richard Newson returns at the end of the novel, twenty-one years after buying Susan for five guineas when the title character drunkenly decides to auction her off. For 10 points, name this Thomas Hardy novel in which Donald Farfrae and Michael Henchard both hold the titular office.;;(The) Mayor of Casterbridge
Literature;;This author wrote about Mary Cochran, whose father dies of a heart attack before he can tell her he loves her, in the short story "Unlighted Lamps." He also wrote a short story in which the narrator's father claims that, unlike Christopher Columbus, he can stand an egg on its end without cheating. In addition to "The Triumph of the Egg," he wrote a short story in which George has sex with Louise Trunnion in a berry field. That story, "Nobody Knows," appears in the same volume as a story about Adolph Myers, who changes his name to Wing Biddlebaum after being accused of molesting his students. That volume, his most famous work, is a short story cycle centered on George Willard. For 10 points, name this author of Winesburg, Ohio.;;(Sherwood) Anderson
Literature;;Several of this author's discourses were translated into English by Wheeler Thackston under the title Sign of the Unseen. He wrote that "for he who is living in the Light of God, the death of the carnal soul is a blessing" in the poem "Our Death is Our Wedding." A poem called "The Song of the Reed Flute" serves as the preface to his most famous collection, which consists of 424 stories in six books. This author of the Divan of the Shams of Tabriz popularized the ghazal form, and his followers founded the Whirling Dervishes. For 10 points, name this Sufi poet who wrote the Spiritual Couplets.;;Rumi
Literature;;In this poem's thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh stanzas, the speaker describes a critic as a "nameless worm" and a "noteless blot." Its fiftieth stanza describes Caius Cestus' tomb as "one keen pyramid with wedge sublime." The final stanza notes that the soul of the title character "burn[s] through the inmost veil of Heaven" and "beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." The speaker later assures the reader that the title character "is not dead" and "doth not sleep," and that "'tis Death is dead, not he," even though he asks Urania to "lament anew" for the title character, and the reader to "weep for" him. For 10 points, name this elegy on the death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley.;;Adonais(:) (An) (Elegy) (on) (the) (Death) (of) (John) (Keats)
Literature;;This poet wrote a satirical epitaph for the womanizing James Smith, which concludes "Perhaps he was your father!" One poem by this author contains a brief paean to whiskey and other spirits, saying "Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, what dangers thou canst make us scorn!" The title character of that poem gets drunk and sees a vision of "warlocks and witches in a dance" in Alloway Kirk, calling one of the witches Cutty-sark. This author of "Tam O'Shanter" also wrote a poem dedicated to a "timorous beastie" and one comparing the speaker's love to a "red, red rose." For 10 points, name this poet of "To a Mouse" and "Auld Lang Syne.".;;(Robert) Burns
Literature;;This author wrote about a man who is sacrificed by being plastered into the title structure in The Three-Arched Bridge. A nameless Italian general searches for the bodies of his countrymen killed in World War II in his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. Two Homeric scholars from Ireland travel to Albania to study the region's epic poetry in his novel The File on H. He also wrote a novel in which Gjorg Berisha kills his brother's murderer under the Code of Leke Dukagjini. For 10 points, name this Albanian novelist of Broken April.;;(Ismail) Kadare
Literature;;One work by this poet reads, in its entirely, "Suddently discovering in the eyes of the very beautiful Normande cocotte the eyes of the very learned British museum assistant." Another work by this poet notes that "with usura hath no man a house of good stone," blaming usury for the failure of the Medici bank. It is said of the title character of another of his works that "his true Penelope was Flaubert" and that "for three years … he strove to resuscitate the dead art of poetry." He translated the first ninety-nine lines of the Old English poem "The Seafarer" into English, and his other translations include "The River Song" and "Taking Leave of a Friend," both translated from the Chinese of Li Po. For 10 points, name this American Imagist poet who wrote "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and The Cantos.;;(Ezra) Pound
Literature;;The narrator of this work uses the example of a needle on a table to explain why women are required to utter a "peace-cry" whenever walking in public. In one chapter, Pantocyclus quashes the "chromatic sedition" led by Chromatistes with an impassioned speech. At one point, the narrator explains to his grandson that three cubed has no geometric analogue, unlike three squared. The narrator dreams about a land inhabited by points, whose king is unable to comprehend the title location, before being visited by a sphere, who refuses to believe in the possibility of a fourth dimension. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by A. Square, a "romance of many dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott.;;Flatland(:) (A) (Romance) (of) (Many) (Dimensions)
Literature;;In the preface to this novel, the author writes that children being educated should be told that they are in the process of being indoctrinated. The attempted suicide of the blind Tommy, who is the son of the protagonist's friend Molly, is among the events discussed in the protagonist's unfinished novel The Shadow of the Third. The protagonist also wrote a best-selling novel about her experiences in Africa, Frontiers of War. Consisting of a five-part conventional novel entitled Free Women interweaved with excerpts from the Black, Red, Yellow and Blue notebooks, this novel centers on Anna Wulf. For 10 points, name this 1962 novel by Doris Lessing.;;(The) Golden Notebook
Literature;;A minor character in this novel comments that he has read more deeply into Henrik Pontoppidan than most people while on a cruise on the Gunnar Myrdal. Caroline constantly accuses her husband Gary of being depressed in this novel. One character in this novel is fired from the Generator for sleeping with her boss's wife, and a brother of that character writes the screenplay "The Academy Purple" before losing his job as a professor and working for a Lithuanian criminal warlord. The Axon Corporation develops a mind-altering treatment called Corecktall using a patent of Alfred, the Parkinson's-afflicted patriarch of this novel's central family. Enid Lambert tries to gather her family for one last Christmas in, for 10 points, what novel by Jonathan Franzen?.;;(The) Corrections
Literature;;A poem by Mahmoud Darwish named for this city ends with the line, "You killed me … and I forgot, like you, to die." Selma Lagerlof wrote a novel about Ingmar Ingmarsson's journey to this city. In one poem named after this city, Tancred unwittingly kills his lover Clorinda. That poem also features the sorceress Armida, who bewitches the Crusader Rinaldo. Another poem sometimes named for this city was written as a preface to an epic poem about John Milton and begins, "And did those feet in ancient time." For 10 points, name this city which is "delivered" in an epic poem by Torquato Tasso.;;Jerusalem
Literature;;One character in this novel sees blood on his penis and thinks it is from a pig he had killed before realizing it is his wife's blood. That character's wife has her picture taken with her friend Lydia, and that picture ends up in a coffee-table book published by Life. The title character of this novel abandons his lover Ellen and takes control of a bakkie owned by his employer. This novel ends with Maureen chasing after a helicopter to escape the village to which she had initially fled with her husband, Bamford, to escape a rebellion in Johannesburg. For 10 points, name this Nadine Gordimer novel named for the servant of the Smales family.;;July's People
Literature;;In the second play in which this character appears, he attempts to take over the Bar Beach Show, where public executions take place. In that play, he names himself General of the newly created Church of the Apostolic Salvation Army of the Lord. In the first play in which he appears, he calls himself "velvet-hearted" and the "articulate hero of Christ's crusade." He also refers to women as "daughters of discord" before commanding Chume to beat his wife Amope in that play. For 10 points, name this character who convinces the gullible citizens of Lagos that he is a prophet, whose "trials" and "metamorphosis" are described in two plays by Wole Soyinka.;;(Brother) Jeroboam
Literature;;Jacques Lacan divided this story into two scenes, calling the first one the "primal scene" and saying that the second "may be considered its repetition." One character in this story remarks that it is an error to consider mathematical truths to be abstract or general. At one point, the main character describes an eight-year-old boy who outwitted his friends at the game of "even and odd." The protagonist leaves a note with a quotation from Crebillon's Atree for a character whose house had earlier been searched by the Prefect of the Police, although the search proved fruitless. That character had stolen the title object from the boudoir of a prominent personage, and hidden it in plain sight. For 10 points, name this short story, the third to feature the detective Auguste Dupin, by Edgar Allan Poe.;;(The) Purloined Letter
Literature;;The narrator of this novel is hospitalized after a boiler explodes during a fight in a paint factory. The narrator is expelled by Dr. Bledsoe after introducing Mr. Norton to Jim Trueblood. In the first chapter, the narrator is forced to fight a battle royal while blindfolded. The narrator delivers a eulogy for a character who is killed selling dolls on the street, stating, "His name was Tod Clifton, and they shot him down." This novel culminates in a race riot sparked by the enmity between the Brotherhood and the followers of Ras the Exhorter, who tries to kill the narrator with a spear. For 10 points, name this novel by Ralph Ellison.;;Invisible Man
Literature;;The speaker of this poem describes "lovers who … would sigh and quote with learned looks precedents out of beautiful old books," in response to another character who says that "to be born woman is to know … that we must labour to be beautiful." The speaker bemoans having "grown as weary-hearted as that hollow moon" and notes that "there is no fine thing since [the title character's] fall but needs much labouring." For 10 points, name this poem which likely deals with a meeting with Maud Gonne and her sister, a work by William Butler Yeats with a Biblical title.;;(ANSWER) Adam's Curse
Literature;;This author's son Klaus wrote a Faustian novel about the actor Hendrink Hofgren's collaboration with a Luftwaffe general, entitled Mephisto. In one work by this author, Detlev Spinell writes Herr Kloterjahn a letter accusing him of not being worthy of his wife. Aside from the novella Tristan, he wrote an unfinished work in which the title character travels around the world impersonating the Marquis de Venosta, and a novella which sees the title character discover Hans Hansen and Ingeborg Holm at a Danish resort. Another of this author's title characters shoots the hypnotist Cipolla. For 10 points, name this author who created such characters as Felix Krull, Tonio Kroger and wrote "Mario and the Magician" as well as Buddenbrooks and Death in Venice.;;(Thomas) Mann
Literature;;In one work by this author, a woman detaches her right arm and gives it to the narrator to keep for a night. In one of his novels, the patriarch of the Ogata family reconsiders his relationship with his philandering son Shuichi. In another, Kikuji has an affair with Mrs. Ota, a former mistress of his dead father. He also wrote a novel which centers on a match between Otake and Shusai, and one in which Shimamura has an affair with the geisha Komako while visiting the titular region of Japan. For 10 points, name this first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, who wrote The Sound of the Mountain, Thousand Cranes, The Master of Go, and Snow Country.;;(Yasunari) Kawabata
Literature;;This author wrote a novella in which he likened T'kama's love for a castaway from Vasco da Gama's crew to the love of a certain mythological giant for the nymph Tethys. In addition to The First Life of Adamastor, he wrote a massive work about Thomas Landman's attempt to assassinate his nation's president, An Act of Terror. Galant kills a member of the van der Merwe family in his novel about an 1825 slave revolt outside of Cape Town, A Chain of Voices. He is best known for a novel which sees the murder of the janitor Gordon Ngubene inspire Ben Du Toit to fight the Special Branch. For 10 points, name this South African author of A Dry White Season.;;(Andre) Brink
Literature;;Georg Buchner is thought to have written a play about this man, which is now lost because his fiancee destroyed it due to its obscenity. In Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller, Jack and Diamante are released from prison thanks to this man. His comedies include a play in which Messer Maco learns the art of flattery, a parody of Castiglione called La cortigiana. He satirized Pope Leo X in "The Last Will and Testament of the Elephant Hanno," but he is better known for his letters, which earned him the nickname "scourge of princes." For 10 points, name this friend of Titian, a rather pornographic sixteenth-century Italian satirist.;;(Pietro) Aretino
Literature;;This author discussed how the two title concepts are combined in his novels in his essay "The Difference Between History and Romance." He wrote a dialogue on the rights of women called Alcuin, and his first novel, entitled The Sky-Walk, is now lost. He wrote an epistolary novel dealing with Edward Hartley's love for the title woman, Clara Howard. Another novel follows a sleepwalker who accuses Clithero of murdering Waldegrave and is entitled Edgar Huntly. More famous novels by this man include one in which the title character is swindled by Thomas Welbeck in yellow fever-infested Philadelphia and one in which Theodore kills his wife because of Carwin the Biloquist's command. For 10 points, name this writer of Arthur Mervyn and Wieland.;;(Charles) (Brockden) Brown
Literature;;Characters created by this author include the blackmailing servant Juliana and her employer Luiza, who has an affair with the title character of a work often compared to Madame Bovary, entitled Cousin Basilio. He wrote about Amelia, who dies from an abortion after being impregnated by the title priest, in The Crime of Father Amaro. In another work, he wrote about the love affair between Maria Eduardo and Carlos, a member of the title family. For 10 points, name this author of The Maias, often considered to be the greatest Portuguese realist writer.;;(Jose) (Maria) (de) Eca de Queiroz
Literature;;This author detailed the affair between two physicists named Alice and Jove in the novel Gut Symmetries. The narrator's relationship with the beautiful but cancer-afflicted Louise is detailed in her novel Written on the Body. Another novel by this author focuses on the love between Henri, the personal cook to Napoleon, and Villanelle, the web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman. Aside from writing The Passion, she described the journey of the Dog Woman in Sexing the Cherry. She is best known for a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman about a lesbian orphan who is adopted by evangelists. For 10 points, name this British author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.;;(Jeanette) Winterson
Literature;;This author wrote "there are words to whisper by a loose brick" and "there's a way around, over, or through" in her poem "Where There's a Wall." Her poetry collections include The Splintered Moon and Jericho Road, but her best known poem is perhaps "What Do I Remember of the Evacuation?" In 2005, she published Emily Kato, a rewriting of her novel Itsuka, which was a sequel to her most famous work. The protagonist of that work reconstructs her childhood from letters sent to her by her aunt Emily while she is caring for the title character, her aunt Aya. For 10 points, name this Japanese-Canadian author who wrote Obasan.;;(Joy) Kogawa
Literature;;Yoko Kawashima Watkins wrote a novel entitled So Far From [this kind of] Grove. Some of Masaoka Shiki's haiku are collected in a book entitled Songs from [this kind of] Village. The title of Jay Rubin's translation of Akutagawa's story "In a Grove" contains the name of this plant, as it takes place in a grove of this plant. In one story with this plant in its title, Taketori gives impossible tasks to the suitors of the central figure. That story ends after Princess Kaguya returns to the moon, and is considered the oldest Japanese folktale. For 10 points, name this fast-growing plant, a cutter of which gives his name to the aforementioned folktale.;;bamboo
Literature;;Near the end of this essay, its author asks "Since you don't know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism?" Near the beginning, its author quotes Harold Laski's Essay in Freedom of Expression and Lancelot Hogben's Interglossia. This work suggests that "the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship." It includes a verse from Ecclesiastes translated into "modern English of the worst sort," and deplores the use of "dying metaphors" such as the hammer and the anvil. For 10 points, name this essay by George Orwell which links the first title entity to the decline of the second title entity.;;Politics and the English Language
Literature;;A character named Goat frees the victims of an Indian trap in this work, leaving only Salome, the stepmother of one of the primary characters. Little Harp is killed by an another of the primary characters shortly thereafter. That character wears berry juice on his face as a disguise, and kidnaps Clement Musgrove's daughter after forcing her to strip. He also outwits Mike Fink at the beginning of this work. The Natchez Trace is the setting for much of this work, which sees Rosamund fall in love with Jamie Lockhart. For 10 points, name this Eudora Welty novella based on the Grimm fairy tale of the same name.;;(The) Robber Bridegroom
Literature;;This author wrote of Matthias Grunewald and George Stellar in his poetry collection After Nature. He wrote of the Allied bombing of Germany in his posthumously published essay collection, On the Natural History of Destruction. Franz Kafka's journey from Prague to Riva is recounted in his novel Vertigo, and he wrote of the travels of Thomas Browne's skull in The Rings of Saturn. Another of his novels has sections titled after Dr. Henry Selwyn and Paul Bereyter, and, like many of his works, is interspersed with black-and-white photographs. For 10 points, name this author of The Emigrants and Austerlitz.;;(Winifred) (George) Sebald
Literature;;As a student, the protagonist of this novel is nicknamed "Slob" and "Jelly-Belly." Peter Boone is shot by the protagonist in a rage over an affair with Virginia Maunciple, although it was actually Dr. Obispo who had seduced her. It opens with the arrival of Jeremy Pordage, who is hired by the protagonist to catalog the papers of Charles Hauberk, whose extreme longevity is due to his diet of carp intestines. Following the millionaire Jo Stoyte's quest for eternal life, for 10 points, what is this Aldous Huxley novel whose title is taken from Tennyson's poem "Tithonus"?.;;After Many a Summer (Dies) (the) (Swan)
Literature;;This poet wrote, "God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky" in the poem "Main Street." He commemorated the First Battalion of the 42nd Division in the poem "Rouge Bouquet," which was written shortly before his death from a sniper's bullet in 1918. His most famous poem discusses an object "upon whose bosom snow has lain; who intimately lives with rain." That poem was parodied in Ogden Nash's "Song of the Open Road," which notes that "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree." For 10 points, name this poet who wrote that "poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make" one of the titular plants in "Trees.".;;(Joyce) Kilmer
Literature;;The narrator of this story is unable to write the Chinese character for "aniseed" when confronted by a patron of the tavern in which he works as a potboy. The title character of this story claims that his broken legs are the result of a fall, not the result of stealing from Mr. Ding, and he also claims that for a scholar, taking books shouldn't be considered stealing. That character's nickname derives from the first three characters in a children's copybook. Coming after "Diary of a Madman" in Lu Xun's collection Call to Arms, for 10 points, what is this short story about a student who has never passed the imperial examinations?.;;Kong Yiji