Literature;;A man named Common finds himself in a botanical garden, having been transformed into a rare plant, in one of this author's short stories; in another, an old woman is turned into thread, and deadly snow made of "crystalline dreams" falls. Those stories, "Dendrocacalia" and "The Life of a Poet", can be found in this man's collection Beyond the Curve. The suicide of the compulsive liar Tashiro forces the narrator of one novel by this man to retire, after which that narrator begins to identify with Nemuro Hiroshi, the fuel dealer for whom he'd been hired to search. The narrator of another of his novels develops a formula to measure commitment to others based on age and "viscosity of self"; that narrator designs a hyperrealistic  mask to wear over his liquid-oxygen scars. Tanomogi is found to be a murderer in another of his novels, in which Professor Katsumi uncovers a program designed to breed "aquans". His better-known works include a novel about the obese survivalist Pig, who prefers the nickname Mole, and a novel whose title figure is trapped at the bottom of a pit with amateur entomologist Niki Jumpei. For 10 points, identify this author of The Ruined Map, The Face of Another, Inter Ice Age 4, The Ark Sakura, and Woman in the Dunes.;;(Kobo) Abe|(Kimifusa) Abe|Abe (Kobo)
Literature;;The plot of this novel is heavily based on an earlier novel by its author, wherein the protagonist possesses terrible gold teeth and authors "Precepts of Assured Salvation," befriends Lady Campbell and lives in Jesmond by the name of Reverend Dewley. One portion of this book is titled "no summary - too dangerous" and describes a trip to a "bald, skull-like rock" where the narrator sees 300 people of different colors, and much earlier in this novel, he describes the "perfect unfreedom" exhibited by dancers of a Scriabin ballet, shortly before a communicator interrupts him. A character in this work possesses a "double-curved body" for betraying the intention of the group Mephi, which the narrator of this work joins. The protagonist, who fears the square root of -1, undergoes the Great Operation following a riot after the Day of Unanimity, which was spurred by the breaching of the Green Wall for the first time since the Two Hundred Years' War. The spaceship Integral is constructed by D-503 in, for 10 points, what novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin?;;We|My
Literature;;This author wrote about a carpenter descendant of Alexander Hamilton in the short play The Last Yankee and adapted Studs Terkel's Hard Times into a vaudevillian chronicle of the Baum family in The American Clock. Another of his plays sees antiques dealer Gregory Solomon proclaim that shopping is America's national religion while negotiating the sale of attic items after the death of Walter and Victor's father, while another sees Sicilians Marco and Rodolpho immigrate illegally by the title area in  Redhook, causing tensions with the Carbone family. In the final act of another play, John Hale defiantly insists to Samuel Parris that they have no need of his preaching in Andover, but he is unable to convince the protagonist to confess and keep from joining Sarah Good and Rebecca Nurse at the gallows For 10 points, name this author of The Price and A View From the Bridge who wrote about the Salem witch trials in The Crucible.;;(Arthur) Miller
Literature;;Nicholas puts a frog in his bread-and-milk and enters the title place in one work by this writer, and in another, a family and bachelor discuss a "horribly good" girl named Bertha who's three behavior medals lead to her gruesome death. In addition to "The Lumber Room", he penned a story that sees Amanda lose it after seeing an otter and an Egyptian boy. In one famous short story, Mr. Nuttel runs away after Mrs. Sappleton's  husband and dog come through the titular window. Besides "The Story-Teller" and "Laura", he may be best remembered for a story in which wolves unexpectedly come to Ulrich and Georg, who had just resolved their differences upon being stuck under a fallen tree. For 10 points, name this Burmese-Scottish short story writer of "The Open Window" and "The Interlopers" whose penname may or may not come from the cupbearer in The Rubaiyat.;;Saki|(Hector) (Hugh) Munro
Literature;;One of his poems finds "master" "ici-bas" and "its curse" makes the speaker "stop up" with the "foul vomit of Stupidity" in the face of a color that names this poet's lyric work on the sky that features "sad chimneys". A work that opens his last collection of poems has a one-word title, simultaneously meaning "greetings" and "bottoms up" and uses imagery from the Odyssey, finding "a troop/of many Sirens upside down" in the speaker's champagne glass. In another sonnet by this poet of Brise Marin or Sea  Breeze, the titular location is compared to a meteorite after the octet describes the career of the titular author and in another of this poet's works, the title character's "crime" ends his passion, compared to bursting pomegranates. In that poem labeled an "Eclogue" but is simply a monologue, the title character bids farewell to two characters saying he "shall see the shades you became". The subtitle of "never will abolish fate" appears in large, all capital, letters spread through the lines of Un coup de dès or A Throw of the Dice. For 10 points, name this French Symbolist poet who discussed the titular mythical creature encountering two nymphs in his The Afternoon of a Faun.;;(Stephan) Mallarme
Literature;;This person wrote articles on the eighteenth-century German creationist Reimarus and psychology papers on the retention of light-dark discrimination in rats. A book by this man uses an Akkadian word for "vagrants" to describe Old Testament prophets in the section on the "Kabiru". He moved towards his major theory in "Unconditionally the Last Work On Tut and His Times," "The Dragons of the Shang Dynasty," and "Paleolithic Cave Paintings as Eidetic Images". He defended that theory from the critique of Daniel  Dennett in another article, and in his last publications analyzed the historical dimension of the link between verbal hallucinations and schizophrenia. His major book uses examples from the Iliad to claim that the "executive" module was heard as the voice of the gods until a point around 1000 BCE, when humans were first able to conceive of themselves as mental entities following the unification of the left and right hemispheres. For 10 points, name this author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.;;(Julian) Jaynes
Literature;;One of his works opens with a "worldly" man reading a ledger and seven other men all lying around a table in reach of a dead man in the section "One Does Not Always Eat What is on the Table". That story by this author contains a section narrated by an author to a coroner and another excerpted from the diary of Hugh Morgan, the hunter of the titular creature. This author described the Halcrow brothers and Captain Downing Madwell in one and the Searing brothers in another story, Coup de Grâce and One of the Missing. In addition to a collection subtitled Being the Fables of Zambri the Parse and titled  Cobwebs, this author of the story The Damned Thing wrote another in which "the child" starts playing along with the soldiers of the titular battle, Chickamauga, collected in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. For 10 points, name this American author, who described Peyton Farquhar in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.;;(Ambrose) Bierce
Literature;;In one scene of this story, a clothed skeleton appears to man and in another, a mark of a bloody arrow under a shoulder of a character indicates that he is the son of a priest. Father Jerome's realization spawns an offer to spare a the life of a peasant who was accused of magic. Furthermore, Jerome is appalled when the protagonist tells him that he plans to divorce Hippolita to marry a much younger woman. Later, a hundred men carry a  gigantic sword with an important engraving on it. Those men are led by Marquis Frederic, who is revealed to be the father of the aforementioned younger woman. Supernatural events dominate this novel, including a statue that has a nosebleed and an enormous helmet that fatally falls on a fifteen year old boy. That character, Conrad, was supposed to usurp the protagonist with his marriage to Isabella. Theodore takes control of the titular Sicilian locale from the power hungry Manfred in, for ten points, what first Gothic novel, the best known work of Horace Walpole?;;(The) Castle of Otranto
Literature;;One character in this play postulates that, since we begin to die at birth, those born earliest are furthest from death, making Adam the youngest of all mankind, while another insists that only by making things look like the truth can they be kept from being made into jokes. At its start, Fino arrives to replace the dead Tito, but is mocked by Lolo and Franco for misunderstanding his instructions and dressing as a fifteenth-century Frenchman. Another Tito,  Belcredi, is stabbed at its close when trying to convince its title character not to consider the marchesa's daughter Frida as the embodiment of a painting purchased at the request of Dr. Genoi, the latest of a twenty-year succession of men who try to propel the title character from a delusion he finds more pleasant than twentieth-century life. For 10 points, name this play about an actor whose riding accident causes him to dress as the arch-rival of Pope Gregory VII, by Luigi Pirandello.;;Henry IV|Enrico IV
Literature;;This building is down the street from a jazz club named "Black Eagle" and a tavern named "Steel Helmet", and is shaped like a horseshoe. In it, the protagonist kisses Rosa Kreisler and hides in a treehouse with his friend Gustav. In one room in this place, the protagonist plays an elaborate chess game, and in another, he watches an animal swallow a piece of chocolate, which disgusts him. More notably, however, is when he suddenly finds himself in middle of a war between men and machines and when he enters a gallery titled "all girls are yours". Nicknamed  "school of humor" by its owner, a saxophonist, and advertised as "entrance not for everybody", a knife appears in the protagonist's pocket and he stabs the naked Hermine with it. The most famous scene in this building may be when Mozart appears to the protagonist playing a radio but is later revealed to be Pablo, the owner. For ten points, name this enchanted building filled with psychedelic mirrors that initially confuses Harry Haller in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf.;;(The) Magic Theater
Literature;;In one of this author's novels, the titular character plays the role of Alberich from Wagner's Ring Cycle while being instructed in music by the later composer of cello solo work who helps him sell Air Force picnic forks to the army and earns enough money to buy a New England mill town. In addition to that work in which Jack Gibbs is a science teacher, another of this man's works features a fake doctor operating on the appendicitis of the mother of a man who changes his name to Stephen, Frank Sinisterra as well as a former Jesuit critic Valentine, a playwright Otto Pivner and Rectall Brown, an art collector. In addition to  Agape Agapé, this author, in a work including Reverend Ude, wrote about the phone interrupting the life of Bibbs and Paul Booth and an old house built in the titular style in his Carpenter's Gothic. For 10 points, name this American author, who created Edward Bast and Wyatt Gwyon in his novels JR and The Recognitions.;;(William) Gaddis
Literature;;The narrator of one of this author's stories is avenged by the title character's idiot brother Felipe after his mother bites him. This author collected his "Olalla" and "Markheim" along with a story about the Reverend Murdoch Soulis's reception of the titular "Thrawn Janet," in a collection named after "The Merry Men". In one novel by this author, this author himself is accompanied by the Trappist Father Apollinaris and utters "proot" to get Modestine moving in a journey through the Cévennes, and one sequel by this author of Travels with a Donkey deals with attempts to reason with Lord Prestongrange and the protagonist's travels to Holland to study law with his love, the title daughter of James MacGregor Drummond. Author of The Wrong Box, The Black Arrow, and Catriona, this author set the Jacobite revolt as the backdrop for a novel about Ephraim Mackellar's memoir, and wrote another about some potion that changes a friendly doctor into a mean murderer. For 10 points, name this author of The Master of Ballantrae, Kidnapped, and Treasure Island.;;(Robert) (Louis) (Balfour) Stevenson
Literature;;This man wrote, "We're human beings, my son, almost birds/ public heroes and secrets," while describing a bombing in the poem "Godzilla in Mexico," while he recounts lawyer Hector Pereda's retreat to the pampas in "The Insufferable Gaucho". In one of his novels, a priest/poet is tormented by visions of a wizened youth after realizing his gatherings with artists and critics like Farewell occurred in a government torture house, while another features interviews with Amadeo Salvatierra, Laura Jauregui, and others as it follows the  Visceral Realists' search for Cesárea Tinajero. In an incomplete epic novel, magazine writer Oscar Fate, professor Oscar Amalfinato, and the devotees of Benno von Archimboldi converge in the city Santa Teresa, where poor women are being serially murdered. For 10 points, name this author of By Night in Chile, The Savage Detectives, and 2666.;;(Roberto) Bolano
Literature;;The first two stanzas of this poem end with the same question, the second instance in response to the speaker not belittling himself "at the footsteps of your chamber". In this poem, the speaker lives in a house comparable to a "watchman's hut" "of branches and cane" and says he learned "the pride of the sun" before learning how to read from his father, who "descends from the family of the plow". The speaker of this poem works in a quarry to support his eight children, and he will soon have a ninth. Among the traits the speaker announces are that he does not hate people, but that the "usurper's  flesh" could become his food. Four of the six stanzas begin with the exclamation, "Write Down!" and the speaker repeatedly announces that he has "a name without a title" and that he is an Arab. For 10 points, name this poem in the collection Leaves of Olives by Mahmoud Darwish about the titular record that "is number fifty thousand".;;Identity Card
Literature;;To conclude an extended metaphor in this play, the protagonist states, "It's very dangerous, this climbing up / From the donkey class to the oxen ranks", and that character later tells his housekeeper to "make sure his house of emptiness and cobwebs is not disturbed". Nine months before this play begins, one character is impregnated at the Festival of Ceres, while minor characters include the cooks Charcoal and Eel. After climbing a tree to observe the main character of this play, Sobersides  is able to find an object that he attempts to use to achieve his freedom. The main character's assertion that "I used to be digging ten ditches a day" is one of the few extant lines from the end of this play, implying that he rids himself of the titular burden to after the marriage of Lyconides to his daughter Phaedria, who has just given birth. Titled for an object that the Lars Familiaris revealed to its protagonist, for 10 points, identify this play starring Euclio, a work by Plautus centering on the titular treasure.;;(The) Pot of Gold|Aulularia
Literature;;In one scene, this character is given coffee beans to sober up, and in another he quotes "To His Coy Mistress". Among the helpful characters he encounters are Meyers, who gives him wagering advice when he goes to the horse track, and Ralph Simmons, who gives him proper clothes to blend in. After this character gets stuck in the mud with several other men, he has to take drastic action before hiding in a barn. This character spends significant time in a  hospital, where a nurse sneaks him alcoholic eggnog and Dr. Valentini operates on his leg. The novel famously ends when this character walks in the rain upon learning of his child's death. He talks with Rinaldi about women throughout the story and rows with his lover to Switzerland under the cover of night. For ten points, name this enduring ambulance driver attracted to Catherine Barkley in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.;;(Lieutenant) Frederic (Henry)|(Lieutenant) (Frederic) Henry
Literature;;In one play by this writer, two parents are alarmed at their son's love of Haeckel, Darwin, and Spencer and are outraged at the intrusion of Anna Mahr into the fortuitous marriage of Kitty and Dr. John Vockerat. This author of Lonely Lives wrote about failed bacteriologist Frederick von Kammacher in one of his novels, and in another, he wrote about a poor figure who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Christ, named Emanuel Quint. This writer of Atlantis opened the naturalist movement in his country with Beyond Sunrise, and wrote about Wulkow's willingness to buy the title item for sixty taler, prompting Mother Wolff's theft and Krüger empty plea to the police. In a "fairy play in five acts" by this author, Rautendelein falls in love with Heinrich, an artist who ventures to the mountains in search of a more perfect melody for the title object. For 10 points, name this author of The Beaver Coat and The Sunken Bell, who wrote about Dreisseger's tyranny over some Silesian workers in The Weavers.;;(Gerhart) Hauptmann
Literature;;This play's final section notes that "sensible despots have never confined" Nietzsche's statement "when you go to women, take your whip with you" in the opposite direction. One of the characters in this play-who is at one point compared to the "all bounce and go" of a motorbus-states that, "I'm not going to have my masterpiece thrown away on" the son of a woman who "swallowed" the novels of H. G. Wells in some two months, Clara. Its first act sees characters like The Mother, The Daughter and The Sarcastic Bystander talking about getting a cab at  Covent Garden and introduces its chief female character, who marries Freddie Hill and notes that "the way she's treated" is the chief difference between a duchess and a flower girl. Published with a "sequel" after its fifth act, the lead male in this play bets Colonel Pickering-"a student of Indian dialects"-that he can turn Eliza Doolittle into a lady. Centering on linguist Henry Higgins, for 10 points, identify this classically inspired George Bernard Shaw play.;;Pygmalion
Literature;;A Will Douglas poem claims he "is dead, and risen, and dead again/ And risen the third time after he is slain," while another poem addressed to his man ends "Help us to save free conscience from the paw/ Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw". Brian Kennelly analyzed the "curse" of this man in Irish poetry, a topic dealt with by Yeats in a poem discussing his "murderous crew". Victor  Hugo attempted to overcome "tottering classicism" and "false romanticism" in the Preface to his 1827 drama about this man, while one of Andrew Marvell's poems about him compares him to Time, noting that he "alone with greater vigor runs". Thomas Gray alluded to those poems when he paired a version of this man "guiltless of his country's blood" with a "mute inglorious Milton"; that Horatian ode claimed he could not "cease/ The inglorious arts of peace" upon his return from Ireland. For 10 points, name this Lord Protector.;;(Oliver) Cromwell
Literature;;Claire Keyes notes that this poem uses the pronoun "one" in a grammatically awkward manner in Aesthetics of Power, and Margaret Atwood's review of this work notes the author is "journeying to something that is already in the past" , and that "she herself is part of it, a ‘half-destroyed instrument'". The narrator of this work notes "it is easy to forget / what I came for", later explained as "the thing itself and not the myth", and "the ribs of the disaster". This poem was the title of a collection which also included "The Phemonenology of Anger" and "Trying to Talk to a Man", and for which its author refused to  accept the National Book Award alone, sharing it with fellow feminist writers Alice Walker and Audre Lourde. Making critical note of the "book of myths / in which / our names do not appear" and the androgynous narrator's "absurd flippers", for 10 points, name this 1973 poem about the exploration of a sunken ship by Adrienne Rich.;;Diving Into The Wreck
Literature;;One of this man's early poems uses the phrase "Master of the still stars and of the flaming door" to describe "The Valley of the Black Pig," while another notes "The fascination of what's difficult/ Has dried the sap out of my veins". One of his war poems notes "We, who seven years ago/ Talked of honour and of truth,/ Shriek with pleasure if we show,/ The weasel's twist, the weasel's tooth," and another implores "Come build in the empty house of the stare"; those are  "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" and "Meditations in Time of Civil War". In addition to referring to his "Decrepit age that has been tied to me/ As to a dog's tail," leaving him "A tattered coat upon a stick," his later work sees him dream "of a Ledaean body, bent/ Above a sinking fire" while describing his school inspections, and also describing "A sudden blow: the great wings beating still" in another poem that plays on the same myth. For 10 points, name this poet of "Among School Children," "The Stolen Child" and "Easter, 1916".;;(William) (Butler) Yeats
Literature;;An early novel by this author tells the story of Robin Fennel and Katherine Lind, and is entitled A Girl in Winter. In another of this man's works, a poster advertising a resort town is defaced, and replaced with the words "Fight Cancer". He ranted against John Coltrane, and modernism in general, in the review collection All What Jazz, In addition to writing the poem "Sunny Prestalyn", he claimed that  "sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three", which was "a little too late for me", in "Annus Mirabilis" and depicted the effigy of a nobleman and his wife in "An Arundel Tomb", the final poem from The Whitsun Weddings. However, he may be best known for a poem from High Windows which talks about "fools in old-style hats and coats" and how "man hands on misery to man". For 10 points, name this cranky British poet whose lyric "This Be The Verse" famously claimed that "they fuck you up, your mum and dad".;;(Philip) Larkin
Literature;;The protagonist of this novel believes that the weather is controlled by black magic which always targets him, and the protagonist's grandmother comes to him as a ghost to whisper of her fears regarding the doomed fates of her daughter and granddaughter. The protagonist relates how while sodomizing his wife he was interrupted by a phone call informing him of his sister's suicide attempt with in a roadside Howard Johnson's. Traveling to visit that sister, Susan, the protagonist of this work hitchhikes from New York to Massachusetts along with his infant son in a sling carrier and his wife Phyllis, and he recounts how both of the Isaacsons are executed in the electric chair for treason. Reworking the figures of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as the parents of the title character, for 10 points, name this biblically titled novel by E. L. Doctorow.;;(The) Book of Daniel
Literature;;One character in this novel is described as being "loved and courted by all the dogs and cats" but rejected by all the humans; that woman, Mary, is the sister of Eliza and daughter of the well-meaning vicar, whom the main character all but ignores, Michael Millward. The protagonist is initially courted by the boring Mr. Boarham, and her course of life causes Mr. Hattersley to treat his wife, Millicent Hargrave, better. One character in this work dies when he drinks a bottle of wine after falling from a horse; he had earlier had an affair with Annabella Lowborough and lives at Grassdale Manor. The protagonist is believed to be having an affair with Frederick Lawrence, who is actually her brother. The main character's lies are exposed when a journal explaining her earlier life is found by a farmer named Gilbert Markham, whom she later marries. Ending with the main character's return to Staningly Hall after the death of her first husband, Arthur Huntingdon, for 10 points, name this novel about the so-called Helen Graham, who takes up lodging at the title location, a novel by Anne Brontë.;;(The) Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Literature;;One incident in this book ends with a character kneeling on a pitcher's mound and proclaiming "Oh God," after following a man on a train whom he believes to be both God and his missing father because the man is missing one earlobe. In another part of this book, a child who believes that she is about to be put into a small box by a malevolent figure is calmed down by hearing a story about two bears in a bullying relationship, who become friends after a trade involving salmon. One character in this book speculates that the protagonist of Jack London's "To Build a Fire" wanted to die and talks about the meaning of bonfires with Miyake. The limousine driver Nimit takes one character in this book to a fortune teller, who instructs Satsuki to dream of a snake in order to get a stone out of her body. A predicted underground battle with a hate-absorbing worm in this book never comes to pass, and Katagiri is covered with insects after confronting the amphibian which foretold such a fight. The first character described in this book is given a free one-week vacation in exchange for a delivering a package to the sister of one of his coworkers at the electronics store, after his wife leaves him a note accusing him of being a "chunk of air" as the reason for leaving him, but traumatic memories of the  title phenomenon causes that character to become impotent with Shimao. Including "Landscape with Flatiron," "All God's Children Can Dance," "Thailand," "Honey Pie," "UFO in Kushiro," and "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo," this book takes place in the weeks after a January 1995 event in Kobe. For 10 points, name this short story cycle by Haruki Murakami about a natural disaster.;;After the Quake|Kami no kodomo tachi wa mina odoru
Literature;;In one poem, this author wrote that the title figure was "too rapid for the eye to cage", characterized by "contagious gems of virtuosity" and "jewels of mobility", while another of this author's poems conjures a taxi driver who claims "They/ Make some fine young men at Harvard". Besides "Arthur Mitchell" and "In the Public Garden", one poem condemns the Egyptians for raising "dog-cats" and remarks on the title beings, who live in ""a shining silver house/ of sand". Light "split like spun glass" illuminates "the turquoise sea of bodies" and the title figure swims "through black jade" in another poem. She also wrote of a place where  "Dürer would have seen a reason for living" in a poem whose title character is C.J Poole, "The Steeple-Jack", and besides animal themed works like "The Jerboa" and "The Fish", one of her works demands for inspection ""imaginary gardens with real toads in them" from "literalists of the imagination". That work claims "there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle" and begins "I, too, dislike it". For 10 points, name this author of "Poetry".;;(Marianne) Moore
Literature;;One of his stories describes a well-educated man who opts to work as a person who announces the title phrase in the railway. A prominent work of satire written by him is narrated through the perspective of Aunt Milla's nephew and describes the decay of Uncle Franz. In addition to "This is Tibten" and "Christmas Not Just Once a Year," one of his title characters spends a night with a girl in a haystack in his story "Kumpel".The protagonist of one of his stories recognizes the title inscription on a blackboard after confirming that he has been brought to his school, but silently whispers "Milk" after he discovers that his limbs have been amputated. In addition to "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We…," his stories "That Time We Were in Odessa" and "Children Are Civilians Too" describe the experiences of soldiers in World War II, exemplifying his style of "Rubble literature". He also wrote a novel about a woman who becomes a target of media sensationalism, causing her to kill Werner Totges. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.;;(Heinrich) (Theodor) Boll
Literature;;This character exchanges her first vows of love at St. Margaret's Festival, and one of this character's friends is killed by Bentein after Bentein sexually harasses this character. This character's brother-in-law is killed after having his arm slashed mediating a bar fight, and she dies along with two of her seven sons after entering a convent. This character's husband is forced to forfeit all of his lands for his part in a conspiracy to overthrow the child king  Magnus VII, and she first meets the witch-wife Lady Aashild when she is called upon to help raise her crippled sister Ulvhild. After rejecting her betrothed Simon Andresson, this character, who ultimately contracts the Black Death, marries her true love Erlend Nikulausson, whom she moves with to Husaby. Appearing in The Bridal Wreath, The Wife, and The Cross, for 10 points, name this title character of a trilogy by Sigrid Undset.;;(Kristin) Lavransdatter|Kristin (Lavransdatter)
Literature;;In this novel, one character invokes his Uncle James to defend his business judgment after offering another an investment of thirty thousand dollars, and another character angrily tells the protagonist of a proposed marriage between Mr. Wemmel and his typist Z'rilla. The protagonist sends free wares to a reporter who writes a favorable article about him, and refuses to  sell property to a group of businessmen from England out of his private knowledge that its value is overestimated. The protagonist's eldest daughter Penelope eventually marries his employee Tom Corey, and he has a falling out with his former partner Milton Rogers after being forced to sell out by the railroad companies and going bankrupt. For 10 points, name this novel following the decline of the titular paint magnate, a work of William Dean Howells.;;(The) Rise of Silas Lapham
Literature;;The epigraph of this story is wrongly attributed to Arthur Murphy's All in the Wrong, though it's very similar to Floreville's lines from Frederick Reynolds' The Dramatist. That epigraph talks about a madman who has been bitten by a tarantula. The narrator of this work is confused as to why Jupe arrives at his place with brand new scythes and later on, it is revealed that Jupe is unable to differentiate between his right and left eyes after he is instructed to drop the title object through the eye of a  skull. Fortuitously, the narrator of this work extends his arms towards a fire as he caresses Wolf, which allows for a Death's Head to be revealed on a piece of parchment. The narrator's friend then decodes a cipher which leads him to Bessop's Castle, after which he discovers a huge tulip tree under which a treasure is buried. For 10 points, identify this short story wherein William Legrand discovers the lost treasure of Captain Kidd using a shiny metallic insect, written by Edgar Allen Poe.;;(The) Gold Bug
Literature;;This work's speaker hums Tennyson's "Song From Maud" and Rosetti's "A Birthday" between the lavish lunch and plain dinner that set up its central contrast. In its final section, that speaker rejoices over the phrase "Chloe liked Olivia," found in the invented novel Life's Adventure by Mary Carmichael, as an example of the kind of work she would like to see. Beginning by describing a failure to get into the British Museum, this essay also claims that  Charlotte Bronte too easily let her personal circumstances penetrate her writing, and that George Eliot committed verbal atrocities by using a masculine sentence--as opposed to Jane Austen's creation of a feminine one--to show how circumstances alter writing. For 10 points, name this essay prepared as a lecture for Girton and Newnham Colleges, which notes the necessity of both five hundred a year and the title space for women to write, by Virginia Woolf.;;(A) Room of One's Own
Literature;;This author said that one lover had "honeyed eyes" in one work, and in another, he steals a kiss "sweeter than sweet ambrosia" from that lover. In one poem, this author asks his friend to bring him entertainment and a meal in exchange for a perfume that would make him wish he were all nose. Another poem asks his detractors, "do you think I am not a real man"? in reference to an earlier poem, where he asked a lover to kiss him a thousand and a hundred times repeatedly until losing count. That later poem is addressed to two men whom this poet says he will sodomize and mouth-fuck, Aurelius and Furius. Another work begins "Wandering through many countries and over many seas / I come" before describing his brother's funeral, ending with the words "hail and farewell". The lover of Juventius and odd meters like hendecasyllabics, for 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote Ave Atque Vale and some poems to Lesbia.;;(Gaius) (Valerius) Catullus
Literature;;One character in this play claims that "he's seen an ass and a mule trot the Spanish pavin with better grace" after watching his dim-witted master dance, while another character declares that "a life of pleasure is Elysium," just before he receives a letter written in blood. The husband of one character pretends to be a doctor after faking his death to spy on his wife; that character is Richardetto, whose wife Hippolita herself was mistress to the title character's husband. The title character rejects  Donado's simple-minded nephew Bergetto. Vasques learns of the title character's secret from her tutor, Putana, while earlier, the title character confesses about her condition to Friar Bonaventura. The title character's husband is also violently murdered after her heart is displayed on a dagger by her brother. For 10 points, identify this play wherein Annabella has an incestuous relationship with Giovanni, written by John Ford.;;'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Literature;;This man becomes angry while brushing his beard and throws the brush across the room, proclaiming that the bristles will bleed when he is harmed. This character spends several years living on an island of women, arriving there in the shape of an eagle and later leaving with Tiera on a mission of revenge. An attempt to use ale adulterated with snake venom to kill this man fails. His tasks include capturing an elk and putting a bridle on a gelding, but when he fails in his  third task, he must be treated with seven vessels of honey from the Turi cups, brought by a magic bee. He abandons his first wife Kyllikki after she goes to a dance without him, and he is later reassembled by his mother from the pieces at the bottom of a river after being killed by the shepherd Soppy Hat during an attempt to capture the swan of Tuonela. For 10 points, name this character who thus fails in his attempt to marry a daughter of Louhi in the Kalevala.;;Lemminkainen|Kaukomieli||Ahti
Literature;;At the beginning of this work, the protagonist is compared to a solitary bird, and another character sings a song about how all women are like mules. In one section, a white person with a dancing monkey gets rounded up with the main character. One character in this book had a tutor who robbed him of the inheritance his aunt left him, and another was wrongly accused of murder, and insisted others not to follow the law; those two are the sons of the protagonist. One character dies by nursing the chief of an Indian tribe ravaged with smallpox. The main character did not  vote for the Justice of the Peace, and eventually ends up with the father of Picardia, whom he later meets in the same place as a black man, whose brother he had killed. This happens years after he escaped from conscription with Cruz, and this work ends with the title character laying down his guitar on the Pampas. For 10 points, name this gaucho epic poem by José Hernández.;;(El) (Gaucho) Martin Fierro
Literature;;This is the name of the protagonist of a novel who works at the Home Management Company, is married to a woman named Beatrice, and waits to become a baseball star. In addition to being the name of the protagonist of Barry Beckham's novel Runner Mack, this name is held by the author of a book which pleads for "ten minutes to accustom our eyes to the light" and discusses the theological work of Abelard in relation to its production of multiplicity. In a more famous work by that author with this name, Jay Gould attempts to obtain a corner on the gold market and  Charles Sumner attempts to provoke war with Canada, while the protagonist of that novel teaches medieval history at Harvard and Cambridge. For ten points, identify this name which labels a man who discussed dynamos in a book about his own Education, a notable American historian.;;(Henry) Adams
Literature;;Denis Hillier and Edwin Roper are foils in this man's Soviet spy novel Tremor of Intent, and the pompous title character Francis Xavier writes poems while taking dumps in a series of novel by this writer, the first of which was published under the pseudonym Joseph Knell. His first three published works were collected into a trilogy sometimes called The Long Day Wanes, but is better known for a work that begins "It was the afternoon of my 81st birthday" and centers on a writer named Kenneth Toomey. He also wrote novels based on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe titled  Nothing Like the Sun and A Dead Man in Deptford, respectively. His magnum opus follows a group of boys who frequent the Korova Milkbar and who are lead by a fifteen-year old who loves Beethoven. For 10 points, name this English author of the Inside Mr. Enderby, Malayan Trilogy, Earthly Powers, and a dystopian novel in which the Ludovico Technique alters Alex, titled A Clockwork Orange.;;(John) (Anthony) Burgess (Wilson)|(John) (Anthony) (Burgess) Wilson
World History;;In the introduction to the latest edition of this work, the author tracks its influence through speeches by people like Isidore Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire and Jean-Louis Naudin. Janet Browne wrote a "biography" of this work, which is preceded by three epigraphs, from the Bridgewater Treatise, the Analogy of Revealed Religion, and the Advancement of Learning, by William Whewell, Joseph Butler, and Francis Bacon. This work, the subject of a work about Peter and Rosemary Grant by Jonathan Weiner, discusses the instincts of slave-making ants and cell-making honeybees in one chapter, while another discusses the  domestication and breeding of pigeons. This work disputed the conclusions of William Paley's Natural Theology, and improved upon Zoological Philosophy by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Forced into publication by a similar work of Alfred Russell Wallace, for 10 points, name this book that put forth natural selection and other tenets of evolution, written by Charles Darwin.;;(On) (the) Origin of Species (by) (Means) (of) (Natural) (Selection,)|(the) (Preservation) (of) (Favoured) (Races) (in) (the) (Struggle) (for) (Life)
Literature;;One play by this author begins with Harald discussing his discontent with the local newspaper with the wealthy distiller whose daughter Gertrud he is engaged to. In another play by this author, the lawyer Berent repeatedly harasses the protagonist with the reality of his financial overextension during a series of legal proceedings. This author of the novels Trust and Trial and A Happy Boy also wrote the plays When the New Wine Blooms, The Editor, Sigurd the Bad, and the aforementioned play about the title character Tjaelde, The Bankrupt. This author's novels include one in which the protagonist's father Nils has his back broken in a barn fight with Baard Boen and one in which Hans Odegaard is the only true love of the protagonist Petra. For 10 points, name this author of Arne, The Fisher Maiden, and Beyond Our Power, a native of Norway.;;(Bjornstjerne) Bjornson
Literature;;When this character complains that the Sunday Observance bills prevent the poor from eating once a week, he hears in response that its sponsors "are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived". The only person who feels emotion at his death is Caroline, who sees it as an opportunity to delay paying debts; meanwhile, the laundress Mrs. Dilber agrees with the fence Joe Hoggs that if he didn't want to have his things looted after death, he should've been "natural" while alive. Though Dick Wilkins is his friend in youth, the eventual husband of his one-time fiancée Belle notes that he becomes alone in the world after his partner's death. He is described as a savage and unpleasant animal in a guessing game by his nephew  Fred, though he is later toasted for providing holiday merriment. At another dinner, his employee's toast to him casts a shadow over children Peter, Martha, Belinda, and Tim, though he finally becomes like a "second father" to the latter after raising that employee's salary when he comes in late on the 26th. For 10 points, name this colleague of Old Fezziwig and Jacob Marley from "A Christmas Carol".;;(Ebenezer) Scrooge
Literature;;The narrator argues that, despite what The Blason of Colors says, this man's colors white and blue represent joy and heaven, rather than faith and firmness. He named the town of Beauce after a battle fought between a swarm of hornets and his mare, and once inadvertently killed six pilgrims caught in his garden when he wanted lettuce. Originally appearing in an anonymous chapbook as the servant of King Arthur, his first words upon birth were  "Come, drink, drink, drink," though his son's more eventful birth involved 68 muleteers and 16 camels. He infuriated Janotus de Bragmardo by stealing the bells of Notre Dame, defeated the army of Picrochole, and then, with his ally the Monk, founded the do-what-thou-will Abbey of Thélème, having earlier given Paris its name by drowning it in his urine. For 10 points, name this son of Grandgousier and Gargamelle, the father of Pantagruel written about by Francois Rabelais.;;Gargantua
Literature;;One of this author's stories follows the Douls, a naïve blind couple, while in his first full length work, Dan fakes his death to catch Micheal Dara sleeping with his wife, Nora Burke.  Another work by this man begins with Cathleen at the spinning wheel and sees the stitching of a homemade sock identify a family member.  However, a more famous 1907 drama takes place in Mayo County and sees Shawn Keogh get dumped.  This author of  The Well of the Saints and Shadow of the Glen wrote a play in which Michael and Bartley tragically become the titular characters as Maurya is left without any sons, while his most famous production ends with Christopher Mahon walking off with his father.  For 10 points, name this writer of Riders to the Sea and Playboy of the Western World.;;(John) (Millington) Synge
Literature;;At this play's start, one man complains to his younger brother that he should dress more for fashion than for comfort, claiming that his clothes reinforce his ugly behavior, about which Lisette asks him "Are we Turks"? In its second act, aided by the valet Ergaste, the main lovers communicate by sending unopened letters to each other, and later, the female lover puts on a veil, pretending to be her sister so as to fool its protagonist when the notary arrives to perform a marriage. Ariste's  leniency toward his ward and eventual wife Leonor provides the positive example for this work's title institution, while Isabelle's ability to marry Valere by manipulating Ariste's overly-controlling brother Sganarelle provides a negative one. Followed by a similarly-titled comedy about Agnes's evasion of her guardian Arnolphe, name, for 10 points, this Moliere comedy intended to educate male spouses.;;(The) School for Husbands|(L')Ecole des maris
Literature;;This author wrote about Simon Moffit returning to visit Cassandra and Julia Corbett in the novel The Game. A novella by this author sees the "narratologist" Gillian Perholt find a glass bottle containing its title figure; that work joins four short fairy tales in her volume The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. This author's other novels include a pair of works followed by Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman in a quartet about the Potter children, while her novella in which William Adamson marries into the Alabaster family,  Morpho Eugenia, joins The Conjugal Angel in another of her works. In addition to The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life and Angels and Insects, this author wrote a work that opens with a quote from "The Garden of Proserpina" and sees its protagonists learn that Blanche Glover committed suicide after an affair chronicled in letters between two Victorian poets. For 10 points, identify this author who won the 1990 Booker Prize for a novel that sees Roland Mitchell and Maud Bailey fall in love while studying Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte, Possession.;;(A.S.) Byatt|(Antonia) (Susan) Duffy|(Antonia) (Susan) Drabble
Literature;;This man's Consolation to His Wife concerns the death of his daughter and his essays include On the Face Appearing on the Disk of the Moon. Another of this man's works criticizes two figures for extreme anger but considers Romulus less valiant than Theseus. This author of the  Moralia praises Marcellus and Brutus while disapproving of Sulla and Antony, and analyzes the military tactics of Fabius Cunctator and Pericles. In that work, Numa Pompilius is contrasted with Lycurgus, while Alcibiades is compared to Coriolanus. For 10 points, name this author who contrasts Greeks and Romans in his Parallel Lives.;;Plutarch
Literature;;The hero of this novel describes his best friend by saying "when I speak with him, I have the impression that hell is heaven seen from the other side," and later tells Michael of Cesena never to trust Pope John's oaths because they are maintained in the letter so as to violate their substance. Later, its narrator has an obscene vision that combines his surroundings with the blasphemous mnemonic Coena Cypriani while he is trying to find a way to enter the finis Africae. That narrator had earlier been unable to save either the peasant girl who took his virginity or the  hunchback Salvatore from being executed by Bernard Gui, whose solution to the deaths of Venantius, Adelmo, Berengar and others differs from that of his former Inquisiton colleague. Claiming to be a translation of a medieval manuscript, for 10 points, name this novel in which Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville are unable to stop Jorge from burning a monastery, by Umberto Eco.;;(The) Name of the Rose|(Il) nomme della rosa
Literature;;The affair of Francisco's wife with Cadiz governor Don Carlos is the subject of this writer's The False Count, which also produced a song about a woman's love for both Alexis and Damon, "On Her Loving Two Equally". Though not the Earl of Rochester, this poet adapted a Jean Benech de Cantanac poem about premature ejaculation into the mock-epic "The Disappointment," and also addressed a possible hermaphrodite for whom the term "maid" was "Too weak, too feminine for nobler thee" in the poem "To the Fair Clarinda". More famous are a verse play in which the courtesan  Angelica Bianca nearly kills the man who stole her picture and seduced her despite planning to marry Florinda's sister Hellena, and a novel in which Imoinda and her lover are captured, leading the latter to eventually stage a revolt against deputy-governor Byam in Surinam. For 10 points, name this woman who wrote about Captain Willmore, The Rover, as well as a royal slave, Oroonoko.;;(Aphra) Behn
Literature;;This region's holes remind the protagonist of a baptismal font which he had destroyed to save a boy from drowning, and the first groups of people he meets here march in opposite directions like Romans over the Tiber at Jubilee. This place is home to Malacoda, who farts in lieu of blowing a trumpet and falsely reports the presence of bridges, as well as the dragon Cacus. Leading down to it is the waterfall of the bloody river Phlegethon, over which the beast  Geryon flies the protagonist, it is divided into ten ditches that culminate in a Tartaros-like pit, home to earth giants Antaeus, Briareus, and Nimrod. The protagonist also meets here five thieves who transform each other into beasts, as well as the Jovial Friars, Ulysses, Jason, and Mohammed. For 10 points, simoniacs, sowers of discord and other commissioners of simple fraud inhabit what penultimate realm of Dante's Inferno?;;(The) Eighth Circle (of) (Hell) Malebolge|(The) Evil Ditches
Literature;;Brook Thomas linked this movement with Pragmatism in a book about It and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, while Catharine Gallagher applied it to Victorian women's writing in Nobody's Story and co-wrote a book about Practicing it along with its most famous theorist. The first anthology named for this movement was edited by Harold Vesser and featured work by Stephen Bann, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Louis Montrose. Its name was coined for a special issue of Genre focusing on the  Renaissance, the editor of which later founded the journal Representations and proclaimed "I began with a desire to speak with the dead" to describe his work on Shakespeare, which later produced Will in the World. For 10 points, name this movement associated with Stephen Greenblatt, who calls it "cultural poetics," which opposes formalisms in its attempt to renew the examination of literature's chronological context.;;New Historicism
Literature;;A conflict over broken bottles leads to a revelation of the motivations of one character in this work, and the protagonists stop at one point to watch a bird. One character describes counting her bruises while being watched by two children and says the madam would not want her, and the title characters had lived for a time in Redhouse and Korsten before traveling to their present location. One title character mocks the other for crying over  shanties demolished by a bulldozer and is later cruel to the old man who speaks only Xhosa, taking away the blanket his wife had given him. That man dies while one title character finally answers the other's questions and reveals his frustration with being forced to move from place to place by whites. For 10 points name this play by Athol Fugard about the title couple.;;Boesman and Lena
Literature;;One character in this work claims to see the ghost of Miss Mabel and  earlier confesses to not living up to a promise he made to his best friend Eugene. That character, Reuben, kisses a character whom he starts calling "Spider". Early in this work, one character buries pigeons and pours their blood on top of the grave before he describes meeting a "shiny man" near Johnstown, learning that his nature is associated with "binding". In another scene from this play, one character relates a vision where bones walk across a sea and is forced to leave by  Seth Holly, the owner of the boarding house where this play is set. That character, Herald Loomis, travels along with his daughter Zonia in search of his wife Martha, finding his "song" with Bynum's aid in, for 10 points, which play of the Pittsburgh cycle wherein Bynum recites a song about a legendary character who enslaves people into his plantation, written by August Wilson?;;Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Literature;;Kelly and Smith discuss the benefits of single-headed nails and argue about tearing down what used to be the titular place in one work by this person. In another short story, Walter quotes Moby-Dick and "The Tyger" in talking to Jonathan Barnes, who acts peculiarly towards Tom, the narrator librarian. In a somewhat autobiographical book by this writer, Leo Auffman attempts to construct a "Happiness Machine", but most of the book follows Doug Spaulding's summer escapades. Besides  "The Meadow" and "Bright Pheonix", he wrote a 1962 work in which Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade wonder about a mysterious carnival in Green Town, Illinois. William Stendhal builds the title house and seeks revenge on the people of Mars in one short story and in this man's most famous work, the protagonist reads "Dover Beach" aloud and is chased by the mechanical hound. For 10 points, name this author of Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, "Usher II", and Fahrenheit 451.;;(Ray) Bradbury
Literature;;One character in this play regrets that a failed murder did not send its hero "Out in a bloody rain to feed our fields/ Amid the Maenad's roar of nitre's song".  Act II sees a bishop forced to declare "This is my body" while drinking his own blood, while Act III sees minor villain Pasquale tortured by its hero's servant Ercole, who earlier cut out the tongue of the betrayer Domenico.  Duke Angelo's attempt to conquer Faggio is finally stopped by Prince Niccolo, but the latter is ambushed by three men in black, who are identified only by the stutter  "T…t…t…," before he meets with Gennaro.  Gennaro was once portrayed by Randolph Driblette, whose production the Paranoids recommend for its depiction of the exploited bones of drowned soldiers to the actor /estate executor Metzger.  For 10 points, name this fake Jacobean tragedy by Richard Wharfinger, which may reference Trystero, from The Crying of Lot 49, about an ill-fated mailman.;;(The) Courier's Tragedy
Literature;;One of this writer's stories sees the child Hattie show the narrator a pickled baby in a jar, while in another Bitsy Barlow calls a group of french-fry-eating fat cats "libertines" for mistreating his injured jockey friend. She also wrote of John Ferris, who attends his father's Georgia funeral before running into his remarried ex Elizabeth while sojourning in New York, and of Mr. Brook, who discovers a European piano instructor to be a pathological liar because, despite  Madame Zelinsky's claim, there is no King of Finland. One of her novellas sees the convict Marvin, who had been married to Amelia for ten days, ruin the latter's relationship to the hunchback Lymon after they set up an eatery, while another sees its protagonist reinvent herself as F. Jasmine and dream of running off to Alaska with her brother and his bride. For 10 points, name this author of "Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "A Member of the Wedding".;;(Carson) McCullers
Literature;;The narrator of this work speculates about being "number 10 or 12" among a woman's list of lovers, but then realizes that he is "number 199 plus 1". Prior to that, this work observes that there are two possible causes of a "monstrous inaptitude for turning round," either the length or breadth of the back, which make Fanny's father comparable to a crocodile. Between the epigraph from Paradise Lost and the text of one section, the word "tumultuosissimamente" appears, and that section goes on to reveal that the "secret word" is "Waterloo and recovered Christendom". Opening with the claim that a Mr. Palmer, MP for Bath, had invented the title object, this essay contains a passage on "The Vision of Sudden Death" that recounts a driver falling asleep, in between "Going Down with Victory" and the concluding "Dream Fugue". Recounting several near-crashes and the experience of riding the title  conveyance while high on opium, this work was originally intended as part of Suspiria de Profundis. For 10 points, identify this essay by Thomas de Quincey about a certain method of delivering correspondence.;;(The) English Mail Coach
Literature;;The secretary Wurm conspires to unravel Prince Ferdinand's affair with the commoner Luise in a play by this man named, appropriately enough, Cabal and Love. One of his history plays sees Sir Mortimer commit suicide when his plan to free the title character fails and the Earl of Leicester switch his affections to that character's reigning cousin; in another, Max and Thekla's love is insufficient for keeping Illo, Terzky, and the title character from being killed by  Piccolomini's scheme. He contrasted the sensuous and formal drives in his treatise On the Aesthetic Education of Man, though he was forbidden from writing anything but medical tracts after deserting his regiment to see his first play, in which a university student joins with Spiegelberg in the Bohemian Forest in opposition to his brother and father, Franz and Max von Moor. For 10 points, name this author of Mary Stuart, Wallenstein, and The Robbers, a German Romantic.;;(Johann) (Christoph) (Friedrich) (von) Schiller
Literature;;One character in this novel responds to another's belief that the ear "commands the story" by attempting to use a chessboard to understand the traveler's descriptions. That traveler then notes the infinite possibilities of the composition of such a board. That character had earlier used pantomimes for his tales before learning the language. In this work, Zemrude may be interpreted based on the mood of the observer, while Despina yields a different vision if it is approached by sea rather than by desert. This novel has no plot but divides the titular  locations into eleven categories, where Melania is "of the dead" and Theodora, with its vermin problems, is "hidden" and each of them has the name of a woman. The primary setting of this novel is the court of a Khubilai Khan and it follows that ruler's discussions with Marco Polo. For 10 points, name this Magical Realist novel by Italo Calvino.;;(Le) Citta Invisibili|Invisible Cities
Literature;;One character in this work frequently refers to waitresses as "goosepeppy", while another states that she shot nine Indians before she was five years old. Minor characters include Fernande Azered, a half Russian, half Portuguese woman that the protagonist has a brief affair with, and Ross Ireland, a reoccurring vagabond journalist that chats and travels with the protagonist. The protagonist meets his wife at the Kennepoose Canoe Club but she later cheats on him with Arnold Israel in a  Parisian villa. The protagonist's troubles with his wife continue when she tells him that she plans to marry the German Kurt Obersdorf, but he eventually finds happiness when he meets Edith Cortwright in Venice. Fran Voelker and Sam, the President of the Revelation Motor Company in Zenith, tour through Europe and become estranged in, for 10 points, what novel by Sinclair Lewis?;;Dodsworth
Literature;;One character in this work sits down beside another with a box of Black Magic chocolates, and that character immediately asks the other where his superior is, deeply troubling him, and it is revealed that both Higgs and Myrtle had been unable to attend. Mrs. Drudge allows a stranger in the house despite warnings of an escaped madman, and Simon is eventually shot. One of the protagonists has feelings for both Cynthia Muldoon and Felicity Cunnigham at points, and is eventually killed when  mistaken for Simon after answering the phone. That character is killed by Puckeridge, who is actually Albert, Major Magnus, and the title character. For 10 points, name this play by Tom Stoppard about the critics Birdboot and Moon.;;(The) Real Inspector Hound
Literature;;In this novel, Lady Mabel supports a man known as the Apostle, and the weaponry leading to the death of that man's friend is provided by Professor X. Karl Yundt is another of the associates who remain unaware of the protagonist's job, at which he reports to Mr. Vladimir. An investigation reported on to Sir Ethelred results in the arrest of  Michaelis by Inspector Heat for a role in a bombing at the Greenwich Obseravatory at which the protagonist's brother-in-law is accidentally killed. Comrade Ossipon later considers running off with the protagonist's wife but then abandons her, taking her money. For 10 points, name this novel in which the role of the feeble-minded Stevie in the bombing attempt leads Winnie to stab Verloc, the title character of this work by Joseph Conrad.;;(The) Secret Agent
Literature;;In one work, this author noted that "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" after telling its addressee that "your slightest look will easily unclose me", while he began another with the lines "since feeling is first/who pays any attention/to the syntax of things". One work by this author notes that "it's always ourselves we find in the sea" after describing the four title figures going "down to the beach to play one day", while the title group of another of his poems is said to be "making poems in the  lap of death". In addition to "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" and "Humanity I love you", he penned a work whose title figure "sang his didn't and danced his did" and another which asks "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". For 10 points, identify this author of "anyone lived in a pretty how town" and "Buffalo Bill's defunct", who also wrote "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and the novel Enormous Room and who was noted for his idiosyncratic punctuation and capitalization.;;(Edward) (Estlin) Cummings
Literature;;One of this writer's stories deals with a boy who deal drugs under Cut and has an abusive relationship with Aurora, while another sees its protagonist associate the nauseating smell of a Volkswagen with his father's Puetro Rican mistress. Two of his other stories feature the freakish masked man Ysrael and belong to a collection that ends in a novella describing Papi's attempts to emigrate his family from the Caribbean, "Negocios". The latter's narrator also narrates a novel in which Abelard's refusal to let his daughter be raped by a dictator sets off a fuku that not even Belicia's escape from the  Trujillo dictatorship and her eventual birthing of an overweight, role-playing geek can stop. For 10 points, name this Dominican-born Jerseyite who wrote of Yunior's family in Drown and about The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.;;(Junot) Diaz
Literature;;This character ends the novel in which he appears by singing about The Black Witch.  Earlier, he is caught by Father Weinhke when climbs onto a statue of the Virgin and Child in an attempt to induce a miracle, and also describes how his presumptive father is caught and beaten by the Home Guard during a game of skat; the latter is the son of a woman whose four wide skirts hide her husband, Joseph Koljaiczek, from the police upon their first meeting. As recorded on the five hundred paper sheets provided by his  keeper Bruno Munsterberg, this man eventually takes Alfred's surname, though he believes wife Maria to be the mother of his own son Kurt, before he joins Bebra and Roswitha's troupe of performing dwarfs and then gets sent to a sanatorium. For 10 points, name this hunchback whose voice can break windows, an inhabitant of WWII-era Danzig who beats a tin drum, created by Gunter Grass.;;Oskar (Matzerath)
Literature;;One character in this work claims "Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world" but that "in England it is not catching," causing another to accuse him of hypocrisy because he wants to stay inside and write. The former calls Meredith's work "chaos illumined by flashes of lightning," contrasts Balzac's "imaginative reality" to Zola's "unimaginative realism," and claims America has ironically been done irreparable harm by the story of Washington's cherry tree and its moral of  honesty, because that story is "an absolute myth". That character also asserts that Art only expresses itself, and that Life should imitate Art far more than Art imitates Life. For 10 points, name this dialogue between Cyril and Vivian about the necessity of prevarication, written by Oscar Wilde.;;(The) Decay of Lying
Literature;;This novel features an insane carpenter who claims that he is "the lion of the Lord's Elect" and reads the Bible because "There's a lot of killing that", and that "mystical homicide" is paired with the protagonist under the Lucas-Dockery reforms. Ferro concrete and aluminum are used by Professor Otto Silenus to remove the human elements from King's Thursday at the instruction of the sister-in-law of Lord Pastmaster. Lady Circumference gets drunk after Lord Tangent gets shot in the foot by a man who repeatedly claims he is a "public school man" and that he always "lands in the soup". The protagonist ends up prosecuted by Arthur Potts, and the protagonist's fiancée marries Sir Humphrey  Maltravers, though she keeps as a boyfriend Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington, who precipitated the protagonist's spell at Llanaba alongside Mr. Prendergast and Captain Grimes. The protagonist gets arrested for his fiancée's South American brothel business in, for 10 points, this novel which sees Margot Beste-Chetwynde break off her marriage with Paul Pennyfeather, a work of Evelyn Waugh.;;Decline and Fall
Literature;;In a 1973 essay, this work's author claimed that it was to be the first of eight volumes of "a human comedy of lunatics", and one character in this novel prefers his catatonic schizophrenic patient "the Gorilla" to his brother. A furniture salesman called "a superior young man" has his flattery rewarded with the protagonist's obese wife undressing for him, and this novel's protagonist believes that wife has cannibalized herself. One character in this novel, who believes he will be a chess champion, deludes the protagonist into buying from four of his friends at the Theresianum while making away with the money, and George arrives to save his brother from the cellar apartment of  Benedikt Pfaff. Featuring characters like the dwarf Fischerle and divided into sections like ""A Head Without a World" and "Headless World", this work sees its protagonist hallucinate that footnotes are attacking him, prompting him to set fire to his beloved library and himself. For 10 points, name this novel chronicling the life of the bibliophilic sinologist Peter Kien, a a work of Elias Canetti.;;Auto-da-Fe|(Die) Blendung|(The) Blinding
Literature;;An author of this name is credited with such no-longer-extant tragedies as The Sentinels and Mega Drama, as well as the philosophical work Triagmos. In a work by this name, one character successfully avoids death by identifying a golden snake bauble, a still-fresh circlet of olive branches, and a woven cloth with a Gorgon on it. That play of this name opens with a prologue from Hermes and sees a plot revealed when a flock of doves die after drinking from the title figure's wineglass, which had been poisoned with Gorgon blood. This play's title character is  adopted after the prophet Trophonius convinces the title character's adoptive father that he won't leave Delphi without a child, and the dea ex machina ending sees Athena convince that title character and his mother not to reveal his true parentage to Xuthus. For 10 points, give the name shared by an author from Chios and a play about the titular King of Athens, a son of Creusa and Apollo, which was written by Euripides.;;Ion (of) (Chios)
Literature;;One prisoner requests that his hands be tied near his chest instead of behind his back, after he refuses a bowl of milk offered by the title character's son. Towards the end of this work, the title character requests his wife to invite their son-in-law Bianchi to their home. Earlier, one character places a cat and her kittens on a stack of hay, and clears up the blood stains left behind by Gianetto Sanpiero. However, the Adjutant tempts his cousin to reveal the hiding place of Gianetto by offering a silver watch, and the title character shatters that watch in rage after Guiseppa sees it dangling from her son's shirt. Set near the maquis in the district of Porto Vecchio, at the end of this work the title character orders Fortunato to say his prayers before shooting him dead. For 10 points, identify this short story about a Corsican who kills his son to live up to his ideals of justice, written by Prosper Merimee.;;Mateo Falcone
Literature;;One of this man's poems claims "The wolf's soul cries inside this voice" and that "a hunting horn curls its distress", and he demands "Tell me what you have done/ with your young life" in a poem speaking of "the sky above the roof". He spoke of how "green tinged pink tones fade" in one of his "simple frescoes" entitled "Brussels", while in one of his "Forgotten Melodies" he claimed "By far the worst pain/Is not to understand/Why... my heart's full of pain". He wrote of "great lilies among reeds/shining sadly on calm water" and how a "thick shroud of darkness...drowned the supreme sunset rays in bloodless folds" in one poem, while "The sadnesses lull with soft songs" and "Vermillion ghosts drift endlessly" in another work. "Sentimental Walk" and "Setting suns" apear in this man's first collection, which also contains "Sad Landscapes" and a poem which claims "The long sobs of/  The violins... lay waste my heart" entitled "Song of Autumn". For 10 points, name this author of Fêtes galantes and Poèmes saturniens, a French Symbolist who was the lover of Rimbaud.;;(Paul) Verlaine
Literature;;One woman in this novel has a brooch depicting a basilisk that changes color, which other characters claim must actually be a chameleon. A mysterious woman in this novel can only say the phrase "bisbis bisbis," and another woman, called the "crazy Dane," helps investigate whether Frau Marta is a vampire. All the characters in this book reunite with their pet snail Osvaldo in order to see Marrast's statue of Vercingetorix. Several parts of this novel are quotations by "my paredros," a mystical being who can articulate the thoughts of any character. Major characters in this novel include Celia, who is terrified at the site of a broken doll after being seduced by the doctor Helene and then falls in love with the lute player Austin, who ultimately stabs Helene. It starts on Christmas Eve in Paris, as  Juan reflects on the nature of thinking. For 10 points, name this novel which purports to offer the pieces of a new literary form for the reader to assemble, written by Julio Cortázar.;;62(:) (A) (Model) (Kit)|62(:) (Modelo) (Para) (Armar)
Literature;;In a Jules Verne novel, Tartlet wishes to rename Cartefinou after this man. His fearlessness toward animals is seen when he tries to attack a pack of wolves feasting on a dead horse and when he goads a bear up a tree to make him dance. Though a sequel sees him killed by arrows after winning a skirmish with the Spaniards, he was later described as dying of measles "seventeen years ago come March" at the end of a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. He stumps his best friend over why, if God is so powerful, he doesn't just kill the Devil, though he is otherwise easy to  convert to Christianity from his worship of Benamuckee. He assists in building two canoes and overpowering a group of cannibals who have captured his father to acquire a rescue ship after being saved by a man who teaches him to call him Master. Named for the day on which he appeared, give, for 10 points, this servant of Robinson Crusoe.;;Friday
Literature;;This author describes how Dr. Rush went from speaking English to French to Italian as his fever progressed in the story A Prayer in the Mother Tongue. One narrator of a short story by this writer is nicknamed "Mr. Mortician" and ritually throws salt on himself after the titular events; that character is a frequenter of funerals like the protagonist of his other story, Gathering Ashes. The narrator of another his short stories laments how he has to "bring the urinal" and help his grandfather pee on May 4th in a story similar to his work, Oil.  Besides writing  Diary of My Sixteenth Year, this writer penned a story where the narrator travels with "a troupe of itinerant performers", including the titular childhood entertainer from "the harbor town of Habu on Oshima". The author of The Master of Funerals and extremely short works in the vein of The Money Road, for 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Dancing Girl of Izu and various Palm of Hand Stories.;;(Yasunari) Kawabata|Kawabata (Yasunari)
Literature;;Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire takes its name from a line in this play, and Herman Melville coined an "-ism" of the title figure characterized by a desertion of one's friends. In Act IV, the protagonist compares himself to an oak tree without leaves and turns down food from an acquaintance. The protagonist pays for Ventidus to be released from jail in Act II, and at one point he calls his servant Flavius the most honest man he knows. Because of Flavius' honor, he gives him some of his gold he dug up in his cave, which he calls his "yellow slave". This play begins with a dialogue between a poet and a painter and an important scene occurs when the title character throws a  feast for all of his friends, only to serve them plates full of warm water and stones. Reoccurring characters include Apemanthus, a cynic who dislikes the protagonist, and Alcibiades, a soldier who seeks to attack the city from which he was banished. The protagonist learns that money doesn't bring happiness in, for 10 points, what play about a Greek whose generosity leads to bankruptcy, a work by William Shakespeare?;;Timon of Athens
Literature;;Some balls of wool and a knitting needle are used as props for one character in this play, who is described as "pink or yellowish". The middle of this play sees one character play Johann Strauss on the piano, and it opens and closes with a dance around a coffin to a minuet from Don Giovanni. One character appears periodically in this play to give coded updates on a revolution happening offstage, as part of which Newport News executes a turncoat. Several of the characters make rooster noises while pantomiming the shooting of the judge, governor,  missionary, queen, and valet who are observing. In this work, Augusta and Felicite give discourses on a world consisting only of the title people, Village serves as the midwife for the birth of five puppets and then reunites with Vertu, and Dieudonne is killed after seducing Diouf, who is dressed as the woman to be killed in the play within this play. For 10 points, Archibald Absalon Wellington thanks the actors for fulfilling stereotypes of the title race in what play by Jean Genet?;;(The) Blacks(:) (A) (Clown) (Show)|(Les) Negres(:) (Clownerie)
Literature;;One character created by this author receives a 4:30 AM telephone call from a voice that says "this is someone you just met". In a novel by this author, a man in a black hot-air balloon abducts Deirdre to Helena Blavatsky's lawn, and the ballpoint pen and a time machine are invented by John Quincey Zinn. A white woman attends Syracuse after being protected from Little Red Garlock by her black lover Jinx Fairchild in a novel by this author with a title from "In the Desert" by Stephen Crane. In addition to writing "What Is the Connection Between Men and Women"?, the recent The  Gravedigger's Daughter, and The Bloodsmoor Romance, this author wrote about a figure who says that "33, 19, 17" is a "secret code" and has "DONE BY CRAZY WOMAN DRIVER" written on the smashed fender of his gold-painted jalopy. That figure arrives with Ellie Oscar while most of the household is away at a barbecue. For 10 points, name this author of "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart" and A Garden of Earthly Delights, who describes Connie's departure with the ominous Arnold Friend in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"?;;(Joyce) (Carol) Oates
Literature;;One story by this author discusses a teenager who gets a Bass beer bottle stuck on his finger after breaking things in his parent's home overnight. That tale of Sam is the title story of a collection  that also includes "The Burning Baby," and "The Mouse and the Woman". This author wrote "Faith in their hands shall snap in two" and "though they sink through the sea they shall rise again" in a poem titled after a quotation from Romans. He wrote "I must enter again the round Zion of the water bead/And the synagogue of the ear of corn" in a poem that concludes  "after the first death, there is no other". This author of Adventures in the Skin Trade, "Death Shall Have No Dominion," and "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" also wrote that "I sang in my chains like the sea"  in "Fern Hill" and that one should "rage, rage against the dying of the light". For 10 points, name this author of "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," a hard-drinking Welsh writer.;;(Dylan) (Marlais) Thomas
Literature;;One character in this work panics when she spots a teenager reading The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, exclaiming "Everyone in it is some sort of degenerate! It was banned from the library!" and is later told, after condemning Picasso, that "pictures don't have to be pretty". A man who is falsely accused of stealing a car in this play attempts to stow away on a freight train to Tulsa and is told that he will "return to the gutter" by a scorned woman who is ultimately encouraged by Mrs. Potts to elope with  Howard Bevans. A hobo in cowboy boots, Hal Carter, is introduced as a college classmate of Alan Seymour and later prevails, over Flo's advice, in his desire to run away with Madge Owens. The title event is scheduled to happen in a small town in Kansas on Labor Day, but is skipped by several of the characters in favor of furtive sex. For 10 points, name this play by William Inge about an outdoor gathering.;;Picnic
Literature;;One character in this novel fell in love because her future husband called her "Mrs. Shakespeare". Another asks if "you people" are still writing spirituals, and a third woman is dubbed the "Duchess of Uganda". A male figure in this novel throws a deck of cards and an "evil looking razor" to the floor during a performance in which he is recognized by Clarence Johnson; that character goes on to get a job as the doorman at a theater, where he falls for the usher Ella May. The main character is a maid whose employer made a fortune in the Oklahoma oil fields but is also a doctor, George Brandon. That maid hooks up with a con man who publicly converts at the Mt. Hebron Episcopal Church in order to gain the community's trust, the one-armed  Sam Lucas. Sam finally fakes a true conversion in order to ease the mind of Mattie Johnson  in, for 10 points, what only novel by the author of Copper Sun, "Yet Do I Marvel," and "The Ballad of the Brown Girl," Countee Cullen?;;One Way to Heaven
Literature;;The epilogue to this work describes how its writing was aided by finding a discarded piece of paper bearing the phrase "if Christianity had asserted itself in Germany six million Jews would have lived" in red ink. The title figure recalls putting his head in a toilet to remove burning lye from his head after the water is shut off while he is "conking" his hair. That figure is referred to as "Satan" while in prison after taking the underworld name  "Detroit Red". That man is also told to become a carpenter rather than a lawyer by an eighth-grade teacher, and later in this book announces "you have not converted a man because you have silenced him" while reflecting on an order to stop commenting on the death of John F. Kennedy. The epilogue recounts the title figure's prediction that he would not live to see this book published and describes that man's assassination in 1965. For 10 points, name this work by Alex Haley which edits the monologue of a Nation of Islam leader.;;(The) Autobiography of Malcom X
Literature;;The leaping of gravel in this work may be intended to evoke a sexual rhythm. One figure in this work is condemned for speculating on what "three foggy mornings and one rainy day" will do to the condition of a birch fence. The author of this poem said that the best part was the exclamation "don't, don't, don't, don't". A monologue in this poem condemns "friends" who "make pretence of following" before concluding that "the world's  evil". After pleading "don't go to someone else this time" with Amy, the husband in this poem pledges, " I'll follow and bring you back by force. I will!" For 10 points, name this poem published in 1914's North of Boston in which a man wonders "Can't a man speak of his own child he's lost"? after looking through the window at his family graveyard, written by Robert Frost.;;Home Burial
Literature;;This author claimed that, for Voltaire, traveling was "to manifest an immobility" in his "The Last Happy Writer," having earlier noted that he preferred Sartre to Flaubert and Gide, because "no one ever said Sartre wrote well," in advocating a more "scientific" literary criticism. The latter essay responded to Raymond Picard's complaint about his ahistorical approach to finding new semiological meanings in his three  Racine essays, an approach he had altered by the time he was using hermeneutic, proairetic, semic, symbolic, and referential codes to analyze Balzac's "Sarrasine". Another of his works notes that Elle magazine's presentation of female authors lists their total books and children as if they were equivalent and describes the bourgeois-ization of writer's vacations, while his most famous essay advocates reducing a work's creator as a scriptor so as to avoid the latter's "interpretative tyranny". For 10 points, name this author of S/Z, Mythologies, and "The Death of the Author".;;(Roland) Barthes
Literature;;This work's protagonist nearly drowns in Soper's Hole after getting his ankle caught in the anchor line of the So Far. Its protagonist falls in with the followers of Paul Bowles in Tangier while attempting to write The Court of Lions, which leads to his affair with Teri-from-Teaneck; later, he's warned not to write an article about "trying Italian" by the subject of another affair, Teresa Anginelli. Early in this novel, its main character describes making out with Daisy Moore and talking to his never-born sister Bijou; later, that titular protagonist describes a squall that sinks Tim Severin's Sohar and kills his love Julia Moore but transports him to the fo'c's'le of the Zahir, which is navigated by Mustafa mu-Allim. Set within a number of frame stories, including one in which the Destroyer of Delights appears to the dying Scheherazade, its protagonist arrives at the court of a man who sits in the Tub of Last Resort and employs the dancer Kuzia Fakan. Its protagonist and that man exchange  tales of their respective trips to and from Serendib. At the end of this work, Jayda and Sindbad are exiled and Princess Yasmin marries its title character. For 10 points, identify this work that interleaves Sindbad's journeys with the experiences of Simon Behler, a novel by John Barth.;;(The) Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
Literature;;One character in this work kills Amycus in a boxing match. Its third book opens with Hera and Athena asking Eros to work his magic on a central character. A group of women led by Hypsipyle in this work have killed all their husbands under a curse, leading to inevitable debauchery in an effort to repopulate Lemnos. After being saved from a group of harpies preventing him from eating,  Phineas recommends sending a bird through the Symplegedes, a pair of giant mashing rocks. One character harnesses the fire breathing bulls with bronze hooves and plows a field in Colchis with dragons teeth before killing the warriors which pop out of the ground, a feat made possible by the magical ointment given to him by Medea. For 10 points name this epic by Apollonius Rhodius that describes Jason's attempts to retrieve the Golden Fleece in the title ship.;;(The) Argonautica
Literature;;This story's protagonist thinks the phrase "filthy lucre" is actually "filthy lucker," until disabused by his mother, who realizes that she has a "hard little place that could not feel any love" when her husband is unable to make good any of his prospects in town. Later, a plan is hatched to give that mother one thousand pounds on each birthday, but she insists on receiving it all at once, enabling her to sink deeper in debt by sending her son to Eton. Mostly taking place in a house filled with the whisper "There must be more money!," this story sees the  gardener Bassett convince Uncle Oscar to join a partnership that makes thousands of pounds off the success of Sausavino, Lively Spark, and Daffodil, although its key member finally dies of exhaustion after divining that Malabar will be the Derby winner. For 10 points, name this story about the boy Paul, who gets lucky racing tips from the title toy, by D. H. Lawrence.;;(The) Rocking-Horse Winner
Literature;;In one of his works two characters devise a secret language based on the keys of a piano to secretly communicate while meeting a mysterious man with dark glasses named Dr. Bull. In another of his works, the protagonist dines with the former president of Nicuragua and Mr. Turnbull uses his toy soldiers to help make battle plans. He wrote a short story in which the raw strength of Mad Joe is disregarded when the force of  gravity exerted on the title object by gravity is deemed necessary to kill the Reverend Bohun. One of his novels deals with Auberon Quinn who divides London into parts after being randomly chosen as king and in another subtitled "A Nightmare," Gabriel Syme infiltrates a group of anarchists who all turn out to be Scotland Yard agents. For 10 points name this author whose "Hammer of God" included his recurring detective Father Brown and who authored the novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday.;;(Gilbert) (Keith) Chesterton
Literature;;One character in this play attempts to explain time as something which flies while he is talking, which causes one of his pupils to run away from class. That event follows an argument wherein one character attempts to explain that because one times one is one, two times two is two, but is unable to account for why two times three is not three when one times three is three. One character is an officer who paces about an opera house waiting for his lover Victoria, and demands to open a door with a hole shaped like a cloverleaf. This play features a scene where the protagonist and a poet see a ship whose crew chants "Christ Kyrie" as they see Jesus walking on water; that scene is set near  Fingal's cave, where the protagonist offers to convey the poet's words to God. The protagonist, sometimes called Agnes, has a child with an attorney who keeps reminding her of her duties, and towards the end, the protagonist enters a castle where she sheds her bonds with humanity and ascends to heaven. For 10 points, identify this play in which the Daughter of Indra descends to earth and observes the suffering of humanity, written by August Strindberg.;;(A) Dream Play|(Ett) Dromspel
Literature;;Stephen Oliver's operatic adaptation of this play includes a setting of "Beati, quorum via integra est" to emphasize this play's final couplet, "Integrity of life is fame's best friend/Which nobly beyond death shall crown the end". Minor characters in this work include a Doctor who is beaten after attempting to treat another character's "lycanthropia" and a figure dismissed as "a mere stick of sugar-candy" by the title character, Malateste. The unfaithful wife of Castruccio, Julia, is killed by a poisoned Bible in this work, while major plot points include a horoscope lost near its beginning and the servant  Cariola's revelation of a secret which allows the title character to be apprehended near the shrine of Loretto, after which she's shown a fake corpse and a severed hand. The plot of this play is set in motion when the steward Antonio's marriage to the title character is discovered by Ferdinand and the Cardinal. For 10 points, identify this play in which all three of those characters are stabbed by Bosola before his own death, a work about the titular Italian noblewoman by John Webster.;;(The) Duchess of Malfi
Literature;;In one of this man's songs, he exhorts "Let here his eyes be raised/On Nature's sweetest light" and another song ends each quatrain with the couplet "Take me to thee, and thee to me/ No, no, no, no, my dear, let be". Besides "Who hath this fancy pleased" and "Only joy, now here you are", another song claims "All love is dead, infected/ With plague of deep disdain" and demands "Ring out your bells". One of his sonnets tells his lover's eyes to "Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might" after demanding "Leave me, O Love", and one of his collections features poems like "Having this day my love, my hand, my lance" and  "Highway, since you my chief Parnassus be". That collection's 31st sonnet describes "How silently, and with how wan a face" and "With how sad steps" the moon climbs the skies, while its first sonnet ends with the line "'Fool' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'" For 10 points, name this Elizabethan era poet, the author of The Defence of Poetry, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, and Astrophel and Stella.;;(Philip) Sidney
Literature;;One character in this work is given ten dollars from a stolen purse to buy ice cream and is later called "Mister Treefeller" because it's what his overalls say. In one scene, the protagonist sits on a bench next to a mini golf course and watches the sea. A homeless man named December becomes friends with the protagonist and helps him find basic needs like food and shelter. Felicity and Noel are doctors at Kenilworth infirmary, where the protagonist is taken after he is found hiding in the mountains. Sometimes compared to the protagonists of Camus and Kafka, the title character associates himself with nobody and drives  his mother Anna in a wheelbarrow to a hospital in Stellenbosch, only to see her pass away on the ride there. He spreads her ashes at Visagies Farm and the reader never finds out whether he is white or black. The protagonist frequently plants pumpkins in a park in Cape Town, the seeds of which are his only possession. For 10 points, a simple gardener with a cleft lip wanders amidst a South African civil war in what Booker prize-winning novel by J.M. Coetezee?;;(The) Life and Times of Michael K
Literature;;One character in this novel disguises himself as a Jewish peddler of glasses, and in one of its episodes, an ingenious plan for bathing nude by rolling down to the shore in a cart backfires when its occupants cries about the coldness of the water cause the title character to pull him out of the sea. The adventurer Lieutenant Lismahago regales the central party with stories of his American conquests after the waters of Bath prove unable to cure the gout of one character, and the clumsy overturning of a coach results in the hiring of the protagonist. That protagonist is falsely arrested as a highway man, an opportunity he uses to convert the prisoners with his  Methodist style preaching. A record second carriage overturning results in Mr. Denison revealing that the actor loved by Lydia Melford is actually his son and the title character marries the maid Winifred when it is revealed he is actually the son of Squire Bramble of Brambleton Hall. For 10 points name this picaresque novel about an Expedition, a work of Tobias Smollett.;;(The) (Expedition) (of) Humphrey Clinker
Literature;;This story's younger character gains his curiosity into the title entities after their owner suddenly beats them against a fence and yells at him for being too conformist. Those entities are finally seen "flashing in and out of the light…going swiftly through decade after decade of a rosary," having earlier been described as moving "like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird," leading their owner only to achieve peace at night on the veranda, when it is too dark to see them.  The narrator reveals that the latter's major  tragedy occurred when he was known as Adolph Meyers, after a "half-witted boy" at his school fell in love with him, leading the town to interpret his compulsive gestures and caresses as attempts to molest children. For 10 points, name this story about George Willard's friend Wing Biddlebaum, a possessor of fidgety digits, from Winesburg, Ohio.;;Hands
Literature;;With Jorge Semprun, he argued against the "new novel" in the "What Can Literature Do"? debate.  Earlier, he claimed that the absurdity and lack of syntactic causality employed by Meursault yields a Voltairean effect in his "Commentary on The Stranger," and he refused to address poetic Beauty, favoring anti-Freduain psychoanalysis, in his book-length essay on Baudelaire. This founder of the journal Modern Times also lionized the author of Our Lady of the Flowers in  Saint Genet and claimed that "reading is directed creation," because the public can change anything it reads due to a writer's being "outside language," in his "What is Literature"?, which applied to art a philosophyy that he had previously declared "is a humanism" based on the idea that "existence precedes essence". For 10 points, name this French critic who also composed Dirty Hands, "The Wall," Nausea, and Being and Nothingness.;;(Jean-Paul) Sartre
Literature;;One character in this work writes the treatise "Reasons for the Spiritual Permanence of Isabella the Catholic" After spending the last of his money on a few chestnuts, one character in this work visits his sister Filo hoping to be given a fried egg. The protagonist disappears after borrowing a black tie from Pablo Alonso visiting his mother's grave, causing his friends to organize a search for him after an article he writes threatens to land him in trouble with the authorities. Other characters include the dairy owner  and pimp Ramona Bragado and Nati Robles, who loans fifty pesetas to  Martin Marco after he is kicked out of the café of Dona Rosa. For 10 points name this work in which the title structure is a metaphor for metropolitan Madrid, a novel written nine years after The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela.;;(The) Hive|(La) colmena
Literature;;One character in this work is disturbed by a dream of a wind-up penguin, and it ends with a vision of trout whose scale patterns describe the history of the world. Another character asserts "There is no God and we are his prophets," claiming to be a ninety-year-old named Ely before admitting that he's lying. This novel's main female claims to have taken Death as her lover and presumably kills herself with the first of the  three bullets in her husband's revolver. The second bullet kills a bearded, masked assailant from a truck filled with gasoline drums who grabs her son, whose father later forces another knife-wielding man to strip naked at the point of his flare gun. After being shot with an arrow, that father can no longer continue his journey south with his son on the title path. For 10 points, name this post-apocalyptic 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy.;;(The) Road
Literature;;This work becomes more personal in the seventh stanza when the speaker states "closer yet I approach you" and "Who knows but I am enjoying this"? That same narrator speaks of birds "oscillating their bodies" in the third and eighth stanzas and cites images of "the wolf, the snake, the dog" to illustrate evil in the sixth one. The repetition of the word "others" in the middle of the second stanza accentuates the people besides the speaker who enjoy the same experiences as he, especially the sunset and the  ebb-tide. A member of the "Calamus" poems, this work was first titled "Sun-Down Poem" and exclamatorily begins "Flood-tide below me / I see you face to face!" The speaker simultaneously stands still but is set in motion by the titular transport, drawing out "the similitudes of the past and those of the future". A person travels over the East River in, for 10 points, what seminal work of Walt Whitman appearing in Leaves of Grass?;;Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Literature;;In one of his works Harriet Milbury rants against the blue suited archangels who have come to take her away after she dies in a chalk outlined representation of the title vehicle en route from New York to Chicago. The mining engineer John Ashley flees to Chile after being falsely accused of murder in one of his novels. This author of Pullman Car Hiawatha and The Eighth Day wrote a work in which Fitzpatrick directs a meta-drama in which Plato, Aristotle and Spinoza are assigned to various times of the day. In addition to that play which includes a Fraternal Order of the Mammals, this author wrote a  novel in which a book connecting Marquesa de Montemayor, Uncle Pio, and three other characters causes Brother Juniper to be burned at the stake. In one of his plays, a choir sings "Blessed Be the Ties that Bind" and the drunken Simon Stimson joins a group of dead souls that congregate in a graveyard. For 10 points name this author who wrote about Sabina and the Antrobus family in The Skin of Our Teeth and a deadly collapse in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, as well as a play about George Webb and Emily Gibbs, Our Town.;;(Thornton) (Niven) Wilder
Literature;;One character in this work invents the password "Old Man's Petticoats" before being murdered by a soldier known as The Tiger. As a child the protagonist of this work witnesses a violent battle between eagles before catching the wounded wolf cub they had been fighting over. As a child the protagonist passes out during a swordfight causing him to retire from public life before being forced to marry his hulking first wife Urgulanilla. The protagonist of this work is an inveterate stammerer who visits the Sibyl at Cymae and compiles of Sabine and Etruscan dictionaries, before outliving Germanicus and the myriad other poisoning victims of Livia. For 10 points name this historical novel about the successor of Caligula by Robert Graves.;;I, Claudius
Literature;;At this novel's end, the Justice charges that the heroine's father had fleeced the government in two deals, one of which involved a young Joseph Conrad and the other of which involved separate shipments of right and left boots.  Earlier, one of this novel's protagonists gets a lover killed by painting "This pussy is mine" on her stomach but forgetting to remove it before her husband comes home.  That character also has an affair with 14-year-old America Vicuna, whose grades plummet and cause her suicide, though he never sleeps with Leona Cassiani, his secretary at the  riverboat company that he takes over from Uncle Leo. This novel's other primary male dies chasing his parrot up a tree, just after having discovered his chess partner Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had committed suicide. Dr. Juvenal Urbino's death allows the resumption, after fifty-one years, of the romance of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza in, for 10 points, what novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?;;Love in the Time of Cholera|El amor en los tiempos del colera
Literature;;In one work by this author, Vacuous Julian is said to be a "silly ass" for declaring "I read, I understood,/I condemned" religion, while in another poem, this author depicts lovers who aim "to touch hands/on top of the handkerchiefs... quickly and furtively so the shopkeeper" wouldn't see in another. This author of "You Didn't Understand" and "He Asked About the Quality -" describes "the body's lines. The red lips. Sensual limbs" of his "figures of love" that he met secretly in "I've Looked So Much....".. This man tells of the titular phrase "which Luican heard in his sleep" in "That's the Man", and the titular character is told to "go firmly to the window...and say goodbye to her, to the Alexandria you are losing" in his "The God Abandons Antony". In another work, this author implores the reader to keep the titular place "always on your mind" since "arriving there is what you're destined for" and to not be afraid of "Laistrygonians, Cyclops/angry Poseidon". This author of  "Ithaka" also wrote a work in which "two consuls and praetors" hold "elegant canes/beautifully worked in silver and gold" to impress the titular group who are "a kind of solution" and asks "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum"?. For 10 points, identify this Greek poet, author of "Waiting for the Barbarians".;;(Constantine) (Petrou) Cavafy|(Konstantinos) (Petrou) Kavafis
Literature;;An interpolated narrative in this work describes its speaker going to a huckleberry party where "the State was nowhere to be seen" after finishing an interrupted shoe-mending errand.  This work later claims that while Daniel Webster's speeches are often the only "sensible and valuable words," he lacks principles outside the Constitution and thus has "not wisdom, but prudence".   While its author pays the highway tax to be a good neighbor, he refuses to pay  poll taxes, claiming that "voting is a sort of gaming" instead of real action.   Claiming "I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government" and refusing to be an economic machine supporting the Mexican War, name, for 10 points, this essay advocating personal withdrawal from subjection to unjust government by Henry David Thoreau.;;Civil Disobedience
Literature;;According to this work's preface, it was written to correct Fortune's neglect of forlorn young ladies, about whom he defends himself against being too fond at the start of its fourth section. In its third, the characters follow a steward to an abandoned palace whose walled garden contains a tremendous sculpted fountain, where they spend the day dancing and singing. Other sections of this work see Monna Nonna demand to a bishop that if his marshal friend wishes to rape her, he must pay for the privilege; Pyrrhus convince Nicostratus that a certain  tree makes it appear that people are having sex, after which he takes the opportunity to screw his wife; and Gualteri pretend to be engaged to a twelve-year-old so as to test his banished peasant wife Griselda. Clever comebacks, generous action for love, and tricks women play on men are among the themes organizing this work, which are decided by Elissa, Panfilo, Dioneo, and others. For 10 points, name this collection of tales presented by aristocrats waiting out the Florentine plague by Giovanni Boccaccio.;;(The) Decameron
Literature;;Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of this play added the characters of Jazz and Chinkypin. In the prequel to this play, one character attempts to marry John Bagtry and move to Chicago. A servant in this play divides humanity into "people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it" and "people who stand around and watch them do it". Several characters in this play plot to steal eighty-eight thousand dollars in Union Pacific bonds from a  safe-deposit box belonging to a man who dies while rushing upstairs to retrieve his medicine. At the end of this play, Alexandra resolves to leave her mother for using the death of Horace to receive seventy-five percent of shares in a cotton mill. For 10 points, name this play about the scheming siblings Oscar, Ben, and Regina Hubbard, written by Lillian Hellman.;;(The) Little Foxes
Literature;;One of this author's works centers on a mentally challenged boy who is exploited by the Whipple family, while another, later, story describes how Kuno's friendship bring a young Texan named Charles Upton to Berlin.  Satirized as the "enameled lady" in Truman Capote's unfinished final work, Answered Prayers, her non-fiction included such essays as "Portrait: Old South" and an essay on the achievements of Henry James that would title the collection The Days Before.  In addition to penning the heretofore described "He" and  "The Leaning Tower," this author created the character of Miranda, a woman who struggles to survive during a flu pandemic, and Homer T. Hatch, an investigator who tries to solve a murder, but ends up dead a the hands of Mr. Thompson in the story "Noon Wine".  Her only novel is set aboard the Vera, a freighter that makes its way from Veracruz to Germany, in 1931. For ten points, identify this American author of Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and Ship of Fools.;;(Katherine) (Ann) Porter
Literature;;This play ends with the main characters being clad in red robes and led offstage in a ceremonial torchlight procession. Several characters in this play successively throw black and white pebbles into a container, and discover that it contains an equal number of black and white pebbles. The main characters of this play sing the "Binding Song" to hold the protagonist hostage at an altar. This play begins with the Pythia of the shrine of Apollo rushing onstage in terror upon discovering the protagonist with his hands covered in  blood. This play shifts settings to the Areopagus, where jurors led by Athena try the protagonist for the murder of his father, Agamnenon. Ending with the title characters being renamed the "kindly ones," for 10 points, name this final play of the Oresteia.;;(The) Eumenides
Literature;;Eve Sedgwick's essay on this story replaces the last word of its title with "closet". One character in this work is compared to "a serene and exquisite but impenetrable sphinx" but later is an "artificial lily, wonderfully imitated and constantly kept... under some clear glass bell". In its final scene, the protagonist sees the "deep ravage of the features" of a mourning man, allowing him to realize the true nature of the title entity, which "had  sprung in that twilight of the cold April". The protagonist flings himself on the tomb of the woman who loved him at the end of this work, whom he had told in Pompeii of "something rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible" which is his fate. For 10 points, name this short story in which the death of May Bartram precipitates the revelation of the title monster for John Marcher, a work of Henry James.;;(The) Beast in the Jungle
Literature;;One of his poems speaks about how "the cold wind, moaning, blows against you fiercely", while another talks about "the moon reflected on the river a few feet away". In addition to "Overflowing", he wrote about a bird who had lost his flock in the snow in "The Solitary Goose". He addresses another writer with the line "what are you thinking of, old friend" before his subject drowns in a river, and this author of "Sighs of Autumn  Rain" wrote about a tree with green bronze brances in "Ballad of the Ancient Cypress". Another of his works begins by talking about how the title objects "rumble and roll" while horses "winnie and neigh", and speaks of how soldiers were "driven like dogs and chickens". For 10 points, name this author of The Song of the Wagons, who wrote about a contemporary of his in "Li Bai and the Sky Send" and some works about the An Lushan rebellion, a Tang dynasty poet.;;Du Fu
Literature;;This essay contrasts the Man of Science, "who seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor," with the Poet, who sees it "as our visible friend and hourly companion," though the latter is ready to transfigure science and make it "familiarized to men".  It also dismisses a Samuel Johnson poem by claiming "Why take pains to prove that an ape is not a Newton, when it is self-evident he is not a man," and claims there are only five good lines in a Thomas Gray sonnet when it makes its argument for the merit of prosaic rhythm.  It pronounces poetry to be  "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," which begin in "emotion recollected in tranquility," and suggests that poets should look more to "common life" and "the language really used by men".  For 10 points, name this manifesto of British Romanticism that introduces a poetry collection including "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "The Idiot Boy," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," written by William Wordsworth.;;(The) Preface (to) (the) Lyrical Ballads;;Lyrical Ballads
Literature;;This work describes the moon "curled"  "like a little feather" and a bar made warm by a bosom.  It tells of "five handmaidens" named Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys, who weave a golden thread for the newly "born" and alludes to Revelation in its description of a "living mystic tree" which contains a dove under whose shadow the title figure and the addressee will lie.  The phrase "we two" is repeated five times, but by the end of this work, the speaker's hope for a reunion is tempered as the title figure "laid her face between her hands".  This work, which was originally published in The Germ, takes its theme from La Vita Nuova, and ends with the line "And wept I heard her tears".  For ten points, identify this work about a woman who gazes down from heaven upon her earthly love, a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.;;(The) Blessed Damozel
Literature;;Women associated with this group's second generation include the authors of A Midwinter Day and The Descent of Alette, Bernadette Mayer and Alice Notley, while collaborations among its core members include the novel A Nest of Ninnies and the poem "A Postcard to Popeye". One of its main figures wrote a poem about an "Edgar Allan Poe printed cotton blouse," as well as "To My Twenties," while another wrote about Mike Goldberg's painting Sardines in  "Why I am Not a Painter" and included "The Day Lady Died" in Lunch Poems. Another wrote about the difference between "putting it all down" and "leaving it all out" in Three Poems, as well as "Daffy Duck in Hollywood," and a poem about Parmagianino. For 10 points, name this group poets including Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery, named for the eastern metropolis near which they lived.;;(The) New York (School)
Literature;;Early in this work, we learn that Bep has ordered a correspondence course for one character just before the punchline "a centipede with a clubfoot" is recounted, and a similarly comic story includes a sign reading "RSVP-gas!" on a bathroom door. Miep and Ellie are some women that help that family while Jopie Kleiman plays with the title character and Pim's son Peter is her possible crush. Mouchi's urine drips through the floor into a sack of potatoes below after using a pile of shavings rather than a litter box. This story follows the Van  Daan family, based on the Van Pels, sharing space with Dr. Düsser and the family of the title character, including Edith and Margot, at 263 Prinsengracht. Written as letters to the imaginary friend Kitty, this work opens with the title character receiving a clothbound notebook for her thirteenth birthday in 1942. For 10 points, name this piece of holocaust literature set in the "backhouse" where the titular girl, the Dutch author, hides.;;(The) Diary of a Young Girl|(The) Diary of Anne Frank|Het Achterhuis
Literature;;This author's Becalmed centers on a couple's move from the hustle and bustle of the city to the country, while the struggles of the titular working class girls dominates this author's The Vatard Sisters.  This author described the odors emanating from a woman's under arms in the short story, The Gusset, which was included in his Parisian Sketches.  Some of this author's earlier work, beginning with the story of Jean Folantin's attempts at finding satisfaction, With the Flow, foreshadow his later spiritual works such as the study The Crowds of Lourdes  and the novel, The Cathedral.  Up to that point his best selling work had been a novel about a character named Durtal who investigates the evil Canon Docre's satanic ways.  That work, commonly translated as Down There, is less well known than an 1884 work that features rapturous descriptions of Moreau paintings, a tortoise with a golden shell, and sex with an acrobat.  For ten points identify, this creator of the ultimate aesthete, the Duc des Esseintes, in his masterpiece Against Nature.;;(Joris) (Karl) Huysmans
Literature;;This author describes wiling away hours at a tavern in "In the Small Hours," while the elegiac "Lost Poem" is part of the collection, "Samarkand and other Markets I Have Known". This author describes his vision of literature as "organic revolution" in the essay collection Art, Dialogue, & Outrage, and adapted a Jonathan Swift novel as poetry in the 106 line work "Gulliver," which was published as part of A Shuttle in the Crypt. His disavowal of  Negritude, whose proponents he identifies as Neo-Tarzanists, can be seen in his tale of Eman who chooses to become a "carrier" and sacrifice himself to save the young Ifada.  In addition to The Strong Breed, this author published a novel about intellectuals in Lagos, The Interpreters, and plays centering on Brother Jero.  One of his best known works climaxes with the deaths of Olunde and his father, Elesin, while another details the struggle for the love of Sidi, between Baroka and Lakunle.  For ten points, identify this author of A Dance of the Forest, The Lion and the Jewel, and Death and King's Horseman.;;(Wole) Soyinka
Literature;;One character in this work notes that he can't trust anyone who hasn't either given birth or been in an orgy, justifying his distrust of Pastor Rosenquist.  Another part of this work details the history of the privateer ship Fortuna II, and another sees several characters watch the marionette play Revenge of the Truth the night before Nino and Prince Pozentiani duel.  Other sections see Baron von Brackel reminisce about how he thought he'd seduced a stranger  before realizing in the morning she was a prostitute; soprano Pellegrina Leoni  lose her voice and switch identities; and Calypso and Miss Malin exchange tales with a Cardinal who finally reveals himself to be the actor Kasparson just before they drown in a freak deluge.  For 10 points, "The Monkey," "The Dreamers," and "The Supper at Elsinore" are among the novellas included in what collection by Isak Dinesen that, despite its name, takes place in the nineteenth century?;;Seven Gothic Tales
Literature;;The mother of this novel's protagonist describes distorted objects called nonnons which become clear when seen in a distorted mirror. The protagonist of this novel leaves a note with the word "death" crossed out on a table, and catches elusive glimpses of the Tamara Gardens. The protagonist discovers that a spider sharing his living space is artificial, is watched over by guards with doglike masks, and waltzes with his  jailer Rodion. The executioner M'sieur Pierre torments the protagonist of this novel after he is sentenced to death for the crime of "gnostical turpitude". For 10 points, name this novel which ends with Cincinnatus C. holding his head in his hands on a scaffold, written by Vladimir Nabokov.;;Invitation to a Beheading
Literature;;One character in this novel unravels a woolen sock, only to discover that its thread never ends. A group of characters in this novel board a jalopy and follow a dog with a blue thread dangling from its mouth on a pilgrimage. Major characters in this novel include a man followed by a flock of starlings, a man who can feel the trembling of the Earth, and a woman who draws an ineradicable line in the sand near Carbiere. During this novel, José Anaico, Joana Carda, Joaquim Sassa, and Pedro Orce journey on the  title object, which threatens to crash into the Azores. In the beginning of this novel, the title object is created when cracks appear in the Pyrenees. For 10 points, name this novel by Jose Saramago in which the Iberian peninsula detaches from the European mainland.;;(The) Stone Raft|(A) Jangada de Pedra
Literature;;This man used a pen name taken from Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Lawn to maintain a satirical column called "The Cruiskeen Lawn"; that pen name is also attached to a novel in which encounters like that with the odiferous pig Ambrose convince Bonaparte O'Coonassa to abandon his quest for peasant authenticity . He also wrote a novel in which a student attempts to kill and rob Mr. Mathers and ends up traveling to a land that places extreme importance in bicycles; that man is infatuated with the philosophy of the hero of a later novel,  The Dalkey Archive's de Selby. In his first novel, another university student writes a novel at the Red Swan Hotel about western writers Dermot Trellis and Tracy, who gather together that novel's other characters to try to kill their creator. For 10 points, name this pen name of the man also known as Myles na gCopaleen, born Brian O'Nolan, who wrote The Poor Mouth, The Third Policeman, and At-Swim Two Birds.;;(Flann) O'Brian
Literature;;The main characters of this novel view a grand review of Colonel Bulder's military forces in one episode, and Peter Magnus is aided by the protagonists in his pursuit of a woman. Dr. Slammer challenges the wrong man to a duel after another character snakes into the Westgate House girls boarding school. The protagonist is opposed by the firm of  Dodgson and Fodd in another instance in this novel, loses a trial against his landlady Mrs. Bardell after she mistakenly believes he promised to marry her, and in the end that character, Samuel, retires with Sam Weller, his servant.  For 10 points, name this work about the exploits of Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman's exploits as part of the title gentlemen's club, written by Charles Dickens.;;Pickwick Papers
Literature;;The protagonist of this play believes in the all-encompassing "law of change," and has abandoned his attempt to write a book about human responsibility to care for the title character. Early audiences of this play were deeply moved by its line "the crutch is floating". At the end of this play, Borgheim leaves to marry Asta, the sister of the protagonist, whose wife  Rita is jealous of the paralyzed title character. The title character of this play drowns after being lured to the sea by the mysterious Rat Wife. For 10 points, name this Ibsen play about the death of the son of Alfred Allmers.;;Little Eyolf
Literature;;In one of this author's stories, a girl named Needle is killed and buried in a haystack, while another focuses on Dafne's relationship with the title animal.   Besides "Bang-Bang You're Dead" and "The Go-Away Bird", Ben chases after Carmelita and Dora because of the literary reputations of their fathers in "The Father's Daughters", which found a sequel in "Open to the Public". Fathers Baudouin and Maximilian are hired by Alexandra in a satire of the Watergate scandal set in a priory, and this author wrote of how Guy Leet, who had an affair with Charmian Colston, is denied Lisa Brooke's estate because she was blackmailed by Mrs. Pettigrew. Besides The Abbess of Crewe and  Memento Mori, this author created Meadows Meade, where Merle Coverdale and Dixie Morso work as typists in a novel which sees Dixie rejected by Humphrey Place at the urging of Dougal Douglas. Another of this author's novels sees the title character fall in love with Mr. Lloyd and teach girls such as Mary Macgregor, Rose Stanley, and Sandy Stranger. For 10 points, name this British author of The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.;;(Dame) (Muriel) Spark
Literature;;Steve Light responded to this essay in his work "The Noise of Decomposition," while Cary Nelson wrote several responses to it, including "Soliciting Self-Knowledge". One part of this essay discusses the influence of Jose Ortega y Gasset's ideas, which the author found in his work The Dehumanization of Art. This essay notably discusses the influence of Erwin Panofsky on the style of motion pictures, and it takes as its particular target earlier essays by Barthes and Frye.  This essay expounds the belief that  art functions as an object in itself, rather than as a container for other objects,  and that the process of knowing is more important than a message. This essay titles a collection which includes the a more controversial essay which discusses the tendency to reject the natural and embrace the unnatural, "Notes on Camp". For ten points, identify this essay which attempts to decrease the sensitivity to art and its ability to make its viewers nervous by decreasing the cognitive process associated with it, a work by Susan Sontag.;;Against Interpetation
Literature;;One passage cut from this play inspired the author's next major work and begins "The detail of the pattern is movement," while an extended passage that remained in this play has the laboring women lament, "I have smelt them, the death-bringers". Toward its end, Morville, Richard Brito, William de Traci, and Reginald Fitz Urse appeal to the audience's English nature in advising them to disperse without loitering and arguing that the title act was actually a suicide for which they have no culpability. Its two parts are separated by a  Christmas sermon, which, developing on the protagonist's reactions to the four Tempters' invitations to ally with the barons and/or king, reflects upon the proper place of Christian martyrdom. For 10 points, name this play by T. S. Eliot that depicts the same events as Jean Anoulih's Becket.;;Murder in the Cathedral
Literature;;One of this author's novels sees Steve and Ada try to fulfill Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" while working at a Seattle virtual reality complex, while another describes Marian Anderson's performance at the Lincoln Memorial. Another features a protagonist named for himself who uses an English Comprehensive Exam as a Turing Test for the AI Helen; that work references early novels like Prisoner's Dilemma and The Goldbug Variations. Following Plowing the Dark and The Time of Our Singing, his most recent novel, set against the crane migration on the Platte River, sees the  neurologist Weber try to heal the Capgras Syndrome set on by Mark Schluter's truck accident. For 10 points, name this contemporary American novelist of Galatea 2.2 and The Echo Maker.;;(Richard) Powers
Literature;;During a dialogue-free scene in this book, a man holds up a tape recorder to a singing red bird, plays back the birdsong, then repeats the process with an airplane passing overhead. Near the start of this work, that same man receives a note proclaiming "I sat across from you for SIX MONTHS and you never ONCE noticed me!," answers his one hundredth phone call from his mother of the day, and notices a figure dressed as a superhero commit suicide by jumping off a building. A diagram pointing to two entries in a yearbook titled "high school 1964" and an image of the Oswaga County Adoption Services building explains why the protagonist's adopted sister is black, and that protagonist later commits a faux pas by hitting on said sister during a Thanksgiving visit. The main narrative, about a reunion in small-town Michigan with the title character's long-lost  father, is interwoven with flashbacks to the protagonist's grandfather being abandoned at the Chicago World's Fair. For 10 points, name this graphic novel, originally serialized in the Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware, whose title refers to the protagonist's childhood fantasies of superiority.;;Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Literature;;This poem's puzzling word holmwudu has been explained by analogy to the Pange Lingua of Venantius Fortunatus, or as an oblique reference to the placement of paradise in Genesis. Its complete text is preserved, along with the Andreas, in the Vercelli Book, but an earlier date is suggested by the runic version preserved on a vine-scroll on the west face of a sculpture at  Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire. The line "our enemies began to fell us" is one of several images evoking the fate of a contemporary war-band, like the "gaping gashes of malice" endured by the title object, a wondrous "tree of victory" which held "felons on high" before "all creation wept" as it "bore aloft the mighty King". For 10 points, name this Anglo-Saxon poem, which describes "the best of dreams" as a vision of the Cross.;;(The) Dream of the Rood
Literature;;In the first section of this work, the title character is disappointed at the condition of the city that he arrives to and he meets several unique characters including Nehemiah, who later hallucinates and drowns, and an optimistic Anglican priest named Derwent, with which the title character travels to Mount Quarantania. However, the most significant companion of the protagonist is Ruth, a young Jewish woman with whom the titular young American theology student falls in love. However, in the conclusion, the title character unfortunately returns from the  Middle East on Ash Wednesday to find her dead. Over eighteen thousand lines long and divided into four parts called "Jerusalem", "The Wilderness", "Mar Saba", and "Bethlehem", it ends with the line "Emerge thou mayst from the last whelming sea / And prove that death but routs life into victory". This is, for 10 points, what epic poem subtitled A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a late philosophical work by Herman Melville?;;Clarel
Literature;;This figure's question "What do men mean by happiness"? was answered "Death after a life of least pain and greatest pleasure" by one of his contemporaries, according to a section of the Mouseion by Alcidamas in which he wins an agon against that contemporary. One work usually ascribed to this man contains a description of "a city of men with goodly towers" guarded by "seven gates of gold". The title object of that poem by this man was described as "shimmering with enamel and white ivory and electrum" and containing "zones of cyanus", and was used in its holder's  fight against a son of Ares named Cycnus. This author also wrote a long poem containing the fable of the hawk and the nightingale and some complaints about the many lawsuits leveled by his brother Perses as well as a description of the Five Ages of Man. For 10 points, identify this author of The Shield of Herakles and Works and Days who described the origins of the gods in his Theogony.;;Hesiod
Literature;;In one of this man's plays, the protagonist desires to "die differently, effortlessly, like a falling star, like a note fading away, kissing itself to death" and flirts with the prostitute Marion, who compares herself to a sea swallowing all men.  That play's protagonist repeatedly claims that to know people we must crack their skulls open and that play opens with him telling his wife Julie that humans are "pachyderms" whose "coarse hide rubs against the other". This author wrote of a character taken in by Christoph Kaufman and Johann Friedrich Oberlin in his short story  "Lenz". In another of his plays, a horse urinating onstage prompts a doctor to point out "nature, unideal nature"; that play's title character is a friend of Andres who drowns himself attempting to get rid of the knife he had used to kill his mistress Marie for her affair with the Drum Major. For 10 points, name this German playwright, the author of Danton's Death and Woyzzeck.;;(Karl) (Georg) Büchner
Literature;;In the chapter of this work called "Rampart", the protagonist sees a mysterious cloud of smoke hovering over the seashore after escaping a watchtower in which he had been trapped by a herd of intelligent animals. After spending a summer watching the Happicuppa riots, its protagonist lives with Bernice, who repeatedly burns his clothing, while attending Martha Graham Academy. That protagonist, who repeatedly remembers watching videos of Alex the parrot, finds a passage in the 1957 Encyclopedia Britannica in which Matthew of Edessa refers to the Pechenegs as "wicked blood-drinking beasts", giving him an edge in Barbarian Stomp, and later plays Blood and Roses with one of the title characters, who takes his nickname while playing Extinctathon. Those two characters later discover the other title character on the child porn site HottTotts. The second title character is hired by  RejoovenEsense, where he hides the JUVE virus in BlyssPluss pills while working in the Paradice compound, paving the way for earth to be taken over by a race he engineered, known as his namesake "Children". For 10 points, identify this postapocalyptic novel in which Jimmy, or Snowman, seems to be the last human on earth, a novel by Margaret Atwood.;;Oryx and Crake
Literature;;This poem mentions a figure who "needs nothing but deep space, forgets the golden centre" and "plucks on his strings to pluck abysmal glory" while "serenely gazing at the violet abyss". Another figure in this poem claims "I am the spouse, divested of bright gold,/The spouse beyond emerald or amethyst", to which Ozymandias responds "the bride is never naked". Besides "the angel in his clouds" and Nanzia Nunzio, this poem speaks of "Weather by Frans Hals/Brushed up by brushy winds in brushy clouds" and its second section contrasts "the wild orange trees" which "continued to bloom and to bear/ Long after the planter's death" with "the great statute of the General Du Puy" which is "rubbish in the end". This poem's first part demands "Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest" instead instructing that "the sun must bear no name... but be in the difficulty of what it is to be". Divided into sections like  "It Must Be Abstract" and "It Must Give Pleasure", this poem opens "Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea of this invention". Announcing that it is possible to "To find the real,... The fiction of an absolute", for 10 points, name this poem by Wallace Stevens, which aspires for the title concept.;;Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
Literature;;In one scene of this work, a character laments the stubbornness of a sheep he will sacrifice, while in another, a character fails to find romantic advice from a slave. Those two characters, Sikon and Geta, carry a different character outside of his house and ask for seven tripods, twelve tables, and nine rugs. Trouble begins when Simiche drops a bucket down a well and another character gets stuck trying to retrieve it. Kallipides has second thoughts about his children's marriages towards the end of this work and one character compares  Gorgias to Atlas after he himself drops a rope three times. This play takes place outside two houses in the village of Phyle, a shrine of Pan, who causes a young lad to fall in love with Myrrhine. Knemon, the titular character, tries to prevent Sostratos from marrying his daughter but has a change of heart in, for 10 points, what play by the forerunner of Greek New Comedy, Menander?;;Dyskolos|The Grouch
Literature;;One character in this novel enjoys playing the guitar and sings a song with the lyrics "just wanna go wandering through the prairies in the sky". This novel begins when one character shares news and softens the blow by making the narrator a White Angel. Another character in this novel notes that if a man "don't like either horse racing or baseball, he don't like girls" and therefore, she's out of luck. Another character in this novel enjoys weimaraners, Our Girl Sunday, and arranging fresh flowers in the bowls of his bar. That character is Joe Bell, who sees a photograph of a sculpture of the female protagonist of this novel in a magazine. One character in this novel annoys the protagonist of this novel by showing up at her party uninvited; that character,  Mag Wildwood, has an affair with Jose but later ends it to marry Rusty Trawler. The female protagonist of this novel annoys Mr. Yunioshi by continually forgetting her key and waking him up, and she was formerly married to Doc Holiday. The unnamed narrator of this novel is a gay writer who falls in love with the female protagonist, who leaves him after getting in trouble with the law. For ten points, identify this novel about Holly Golightly, a work by Truman Capote.;;Breakfast at Tiffany's
Literature;;The son of this work's title character is seen to "run after a gilded butterfly" and let it go over and over until he "mammocked" it. This work's title character asks "Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you/ His absolute shall"? and is later mocked for breaking an oath like "a twist of rotten silk" and is called "the boy of tears", prompting him to angrily claim "If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there" that he defeated his enemies "like an eagle in a dove-cote". One character in this work tells a tale about "a time when all the  body's members/ Rebell'd against the belly" and Sicinius and Brutus incite a riot against the title character prior to his denunciation of the populace as "crows to peck the eagles". The title character is killed by Aufidius because Virgilia and Volumnia convince him not to destroy Rome in, for 10 points, which Shakespeare play about the general Caius Martius?;;Coriolanus
Literature;;Psychic John recruits Charles to help him swindle the gullible Miss A out of her inheritance in this man's short play The Shawl, which shares some themes with a Harley Granville-Baker play he adapted for contemporary audiences, The Voysey Inheritance. Another of his plays sees "in Hell" a film executive who in an earlier play had almost been swindled into making a movie based on a post-apocalyptic Indian novel by his seductive temp. secretary; that executive's name is  Bobby Gould. Joan Webber's anxiety toward men and Bernard Litko's obsessions with the title licentiousness doom Deborah Soloman and Dan Shapiro's relationship in another work, while in another play a report that Fletcher Post's jaw has been broken causes Teach to brain Bobby with a bottle, aborting their attempt to steal the title coin. For 10 points, name this author of Speed-the-Plow, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.;;(David) Mamet
Literature;;The narrator of this work countenances his belief in daimonia by the mention of the 'Prince of Persia' in Daniel and cites the Alexandrian school of Origen and Clement as providing his notion of angels as "the Economy of the Visible World", as well as claiming that "I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel" after mentioning "I used to wish the Arabian Nights were true". He recounts a "humorous revenge" in which he was placed among "the least intellectual men" by Dr. Whately and the narrator speaks of the teachings "so pure, so beautiful" of John Keble, though he admits that Keble's intellectual principles merely recast the teachings of Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion. This work also recounts involvement in the  Oxford movement in sections like "History of My Religious Opinions from 1839 to 1841", and this work published in Macmillan's Magazine was a response to Charles Kingsley. Defending its author's conversion to Catholicism from the Anglican church, for 10 points, name this work of John Henry Newman.;;Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Literature;;In a monologue in this work, Satan declares he loves 'the smell of red peppers frying in oil', which is redolent in a coffeehouse. One chapter closes with a tree claiming it wants to be its meaning, and a story of two naked Dervishes interrupts a sequence in a locale home to the dwarf Jezmi Agha during an investigation into an imperfection of a horse's nose. A story by Rashiduddin of Kazvin is recounted in this work, while later a stone is dropped onto a beggar's handkerchief by the Jewish Clothier  Esther before Hayrire announces her arrival, and Shevket is later tricked by Hasan. Master Osman defaults to Stork over Olive in regards to who killed Elegante and Enishte, and Shekure marries Black during the reign of Murad III in, for 10 points, what novel about miniaturists by Orhan Pamuk.;;My Name is Red
Literature;;After hearing a story about a mad doctor named Boris Karloff, one character in this work, William, steals a fiver from the protagonist and attempts to use it to buy Dolly Mixtures. Another episode in this work sees Bernard Griffin accused of shooting the gossipy Mrs. Bull with an airgun, an action actually performed by the protagonist. This novel opens at the White Horse Club, where its protagonist out-drinks Loudmouth. In one scene, its protagonist's lover causes a miscarriage by drinking gin and taking a scalding bath, while the end of this novel sees its protagonist plan to move in with  Doreen after getting beaten up by Winnie's husband Bill and ending his simultaneous affairs with her and Brenda. Its protagonist spends five days a week working at a bicycle factory, after which he is able to enjoy the titular "fifty-two holidays of the year". For 10 points, identify this novel starring Arthur Seaton, a work by Alan Sillitoe.;;Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Literature;;This author wrote a short story in which a white dog replaces Gustavo and Armando as the companions of the narrator's aunt Matilde, who herself eventually disappears. The belongings of Marta Mora and Roberto Ferrer, starting with the titular painting, gradually disappear in a novella by this man, while another of his novellas sees Magdalena Prieto and Sylvia Corday exchange their husbands' body parts. Besides "The Walk" and the Sacred Families trilogy, which includes the aforementioned Green Atom Number Five and Chattanooga Choo-Choo,  this man wrote a novel set in Estacion el Olivo, in which  Japonesita operates the brothel at which her father, the transvestite La Manuela, works. In another of his novels, Andres Abalos admits his attraction to Estela after constant badgering from his insane grandmother Misia Elisa, while in his most famous work, Dona Ines's son Boy is raised at La Rinconada with other deformed people; that latter book is narrated by Humberto Peñaloza. For 10 points, identify this Chilean author of Hell Has No Limits, Coronación, and The Obscene Bird of Night.;;(Jose) Donoso (Yáñez)
Literature;;Towards the end of this work, victimization is personified by "Socrates in chains", "Montezuma in the bed of thorns", and "Lincoln exiting the theatre", among other historical references. Furthermore, critics cite the mention of Melusine as an allusion to André Breton, a fellow surrealist. The speaker frequently addresses a woman, stating "I go by your body for the world... you're a city that besieges the sea" and presumably kisses that same woman during the 1937 bombing of Madrid, detailed later in the poem. This work begins and ends with a list of aquatic images that  "come full circle, forever arriving", introducing the cyclic nature of the poem. Composed of 584 lines of hendecasyllabic verse, its structure mimics the revolution of the titular "solar rock", Venus. A man searches for love and identity amidst the limits of society and time, in for 10 points, what long poem by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz?;;(The) Sun Stone|Piedra de sol
Literature;;One of this man's essays claims that while a snobbish Roman might say `I am dining with the Borgias to-night,' no Roman ever was able to say `I dined last night with the Borgias', and that essay divides the world into hosts and guests, claiming he has always been a guest. He praised windows for their narrative capacity and their integral place in painting in "Fenestralia", while he claimed greater adventures awaited his well traveled hatbox covered with labels in "Ichabod". He recounted an interlude in Bath in which Robert Coates was tricked into playing the title role in one essay, while in another essay, Mr. Le V. is attempting to attain the title status, which D'Orsay almost achieved but is exemplified by Beau Brummel. The author of "Poor Romeo" and "Dandies and Dandies", he wrote a novel in which the  Duke of Dorset dies in the River Isis after the title character presents a magic show. In one of this man's short stories the narrator lunches alongside the painter Will Rothenstein and the title character, who makes a deal with the devil to visit the Reading Room of the British Museum only to find that his only literary significance is as a character in a short story. For 10 points, name this author of Zuleika Dobson and the collection Seven Men, which contains "Enoch Soames".;;(Sir) (Henry) (Maximilian) Beerbohm
Literature;;This novel was labeled a "clear glass, which falsifies and distorts nothing" in William Dean Howells's introduction to its first English edition, which also said that "I cannot promise that it will interest" certain readers. The donkey-driver Alfio Mosca pines for one of the females in this story, but remains unfulfilled, though Alessio achieves some measure of success at the end of the novel. Lia and Mena are warned to keep their brother from falling in with smugglers, but the brother ultimately stabs Don Michele, who has earlier predicted Bastianazzo's death in a storm. The central figures support themselves by fishing from their boat Provvidenza until bad times force them to take out a loan for buying a wholesale lot of black beans, against the wishes of La Longa. As a result, the family becomes indebted to the usurers Goosefoot and Crucifix Dumbbell. Taking place in the  Sicilian town of Trezza, where Padron Ntoni attempts to reverse the disintegration of his family, for 10 points, name this novel by Giovanni Verga about the poor consequences of mortgaging the titular domicile.;;(The) House by the Medlar Tree|(The) Malavoglia||(I) Malavoglia
Literature;;This author combined ten Chekhovian sketches, including "The Sneeze" and "The Audition," into the play The Good Doctor. Ken Gorman, Lenny Ganz and others try to figure out why their host Charley shot himself in the ear in his farce Rumors, while another play sees Yvonne Fouchet try to reunite three marriages over a mysterious dinner party. Another work chronicles the mental breakdown of Mel Edison in his East Side apartment, and in another, the attic-squatting neighbor Velasco helps Corie Bratter convince her husband Paul to be more spontaneous. In addition to The  Prisoner of Second Avenue and Barefoot in the Park, he depicted Ben Silverman reuniting the vaudeville team of Willie Clark and Al Lewis, and also a play in which Blanche's abandonment of her sportswriter husband, as well as Frances' of a copywriter, cause two poker buddies to move in together.  For 10 points, name this author of The Sunshine Boys and The Odd Couple.;;(Neil) Simon
Literature;;In one of this author's plays, a man introduces himself as Prince of the Moon and Knight of the Rose before whisking away Countess Lanska to the midnight ringing of sleigh bells. This author of The Snowstorm speaks of "what flames, so heroically rash, /An occasional shade can evoke" and "How much dark and menacing grief/Is crammed in my golden-haired head" in one poem. Other poems claim "My footsteps are light" and that "Two suns are cooling down, - God, I protest!", and this author of "You, Walking Past Me" lamented "On earth, they gave me pennies for my cries" and that "I am your little swallow - Psyche!" in the title poem of one collection. She wrote a poem on the death of Rilke, who had been among her most significant correspondents alongside Boris Pasternak, and she expressed her political views in The  Demesne of the Swan. For 10 points, name this Russian poet who recorded her affair with Osip Mandelshtam in her Mileposts I.;;(Marina) Tsvetayeva
Literature;;Lesser-known members of this family include Marian, who marries the hilariously-named Edward Tweetyman; Juley, whose husband Septimus Small dies of a weak constitution; and the ancient Uncle Timothy, who runs a publishing house out of Bayswater Road.  One member of this family has an affair with Frenchman Prosper Profond until she realizes he's sleeping with her brother's wife Annette, while another dies after going to the Boer War to keep Val  Dartie away from his sister.  Though their troubles begin when one member leaves Frances Crisson to marry maid Helene Hilmer, their central rift occurs when the designer of Robbin Hill, Philip Bosinney, dies in a carriage accident after leaving his fiancée June for Irene Heron, who later marries Jolyon but was at the time wed to his solicitor cousin Soames, nicknamed "the man of property". For 10 points, name this family created by John Galsworthy.;;Forsyte
Literature;;In Chapter 8 of this work, a Stanford-educated professor uses the metaphor of a freight train car to explain the difference between "loss" and "lack", while in Chapter 19, one character uses T.S. Eliot's term "hollow men" to refer to a pair of women who attempt to file a complaint about restroom equality. Late in this work, one character is guided to an "expressionless" town in a basin by a pair of lost soldiers; that character hears lines like "The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx/Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams" while listening to the titular song. Another character predicts a rain of sardines and mackerel while sitting in a police station, and a third character, a trucker who becomes enamored of Beethoven's  Archduke Trio, receives information about an "entrance stone" from Colonel Sanders. Mr. Nakamura is killed by another character in order to further his cat-soul flute; that character, Johnnie Walker, is shortly thereafter killed by one of this novel's protagonists. An incident on the Rice Bowl Hill left that protagonist devoid of memory; this novel's other protagonist spends time at the Komura Memorial Library, where he meets the transgendered Oshima and his possible mother, Miss Saeki, after running away from home and taking an alias that means "Crow". For 10 points, identify this novel which tells the intertwined stories of the cat-finding Mr. Nakata and the title character, surnamed Tamura, a work of Haruki Murakami.;;Kafka on the Shore|Umibe no Kafuka
Literature;;One analysis of this book says that a passage crucial to understanding it, which begins "I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living" was excised from the final edition. That analysis of this novel also cites the airbrushing of a crucifix from a photo of the author, the fact that the author of this book came to admire William F. Buckley, and the omission of the author's second divorce from this novel. That analysis of this novel is by John Leland and is entitled "the lessons of" this book are "not what you think". One part of this novel describes frustration at a fence blocking a view of the Mississippi, while another discussed a dollar-a-day tent rental in  Sabinal after a failure to find employment picking grapes in Bakersfield. Ed twice abandons his wife Galeta in this novel, another man goes to Mexico City to get q quick divorce from Camille, and the central male ends his happy domestic relationship with Terry. The main characters go to Denver to see Carlo Marx and New Orleans to visit Old Bull Lee in, for 10 points, what novel about Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise's travels, written by Jack Kerouac?;;On the Road
Literature;;In The Bird and the Bell, Christopher Pearse Cranch wrote a seven-sonnet sequence about this event, while George Moses Horton described it in the line "The dove to his covet has fled" and claims it happened "triumphantly".  Herman Melville wrote "Beware the people weeping/ When they bare the iron hand" about it, and Henry Longfellow described it happening "as we rode along/ Down the dark of the mountain gap/ To visit the picket-guard at the  ford". Another poet reflects upon it "with ever-returning spring" when "the great star droop'd in the west," noting in another of the four poems remembering it that though "our fearful trip is done" a certain man is "Fallen cold and dead". For 10 points, name this event lamented in Walt Whitman's "O Captain My Captain".;;(the) assassination (of) (Abraham) Lincoln|death (of) (Abraham) Lincoln
Literature;;One character in this play explains that if the roast chicken is dropped, it will have to be washed off with the wine and then he will have to make iced tea, and concludes that he has died from eating bad liver paste before his wife instructs him to adopt the posture of a submissive animal. In its first scene, a man predicts that the airplane overhead will crash; the plane buzzes the group several more times during the course of the play. One of the four characters in this play is driven to tears when asked what she would do if her husband left her forever. Two characters realize that they must  change or perish after Leslie tries to choke Charlie. Nancy is Charlie's human wife, and Sarah is Leslie's lizard mate, in, for 10 points, what play by Edward Albee?;;Seascape
Literature;;This work states that "it will be a harder alchemy than Lullius ever knew" to gain from "the weak ostentation of wealth" and later uses an analogy of the temple of Janus opening.  This work cites Paul as a prime example of the good that comes out of a certain activity because he wanted to include the poetry and drama of the Greeks in the Bible, but Plato's further use of it and Galileo's imprisonment are perhaps even stronger arguments.  The author of this work fears the "iron yoke of conformity" that produces "the greatest discouragement and affront that can be offered to  learning" and states "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue" in response.  This tract takes begins with an excerpt from The Suppliant Women and uses God's gift of free will to support the "liberty of printing" which has been "reduced into the power of a few".  For 10 points, name this pamphlet on the moral, political, and religious implications of censorship, written in 1644 by John Milton.;;Areopagitica
Literature;;In one episode from this work, a sculptor is told to carve through a mountain in order to win the hand of the queen. Another character in this work attempts to build a flying machine by tying meat to a throne and tying four eagles near the meat. A religious order called the House of Power wore leather pants while re-enacting feats from this work, such as the clubbing to death of an elephant and Kava's revolt against a king who feeds human hearts to the snakes that grow from his shoulders. One episode in this work discusses a baby who is exposed because he is an albino and raised by the same  bird who later aids in the delivery of an enormous child fathered by that man, Zal. The author of this poem, which includes the heroic Simurgh, was paid off with a large amount of indigo after excising a satirical preface mocking the dedicatee of this work for stiffing him. This epic recounts Sudabeh's attempt to seduce her stepson Siyavosh and the tale of a warrior who accidentally kills his own son, Rostam and Sohrab. For 10 points, name this work of Ferdowsi, the national epic of Iran.;;(The) Shahnameh (Ferdowsi)|(the) Book of Kings
Literature;;At this play's start, its hero curses the diminuative Philocrates for tricking him into buying a poor tracking animal, and later on he manages to trick a shyster into wishing for Corcyrean whips to transport him to land he wishes to steal.  This work's protagonist ejects both Cinesias, despite his stated need for poetic inspiration, as well as Iris, who demands a sacrifice be made to avoid war, and later interprets Triballu's gibberish as consent so that he may take a scepter and marry the goddess  Sovereignty.  The mathematician Meton is eventually enlisted to help the project of its heroes, who begin this play seeking the former king Tereus, who has changed into a Hoopoe; after praising him and his brethren as gods, they together form a polis to challenge the Olympians.  For 10 points, name this play in which Euelpides and Psithetaerus form the aerial kingdom of Cloudcuckooland, by Aristophanes.;;(The) Birds|Ornithes
Literature;;The eleventh stanza of this poem describes "white/assurances of harvest", which may be mushrooms or plantain flowers, and describes geese bearing lotus shoots traveling to Manasa. Later, this work's protagonist suggests that its title figure imitate a bloody elephant skin by becoming "red as Japa flowers" and describes how courtesans, "their rows in unison like honey bees", will give "sidelong glances" when that title figure arrives in Mahakala on the way to the city of  Alaka on Mount Kailasa. Written in the "slowly approaching", or "mandakranta", meter, it opens by noting that its protagonist was sent to "penance groves" in the Ramagiry for "scanting duty". The title character is given directions to find a woman who "awaits, a captive taken by the heart", the beloved of the protagonist, who is a servant of Kubera. For 10 points, identify this poem in which a Yaksha asks the title character, who is composed of "water vapor, fire, and wind", to communicate his love to his consort, a work of Kalidasa.;;Meghaduta|(The) Cloud Messenger|(The) Transport of Love
Literature;;In the opening section of this work, its protagonist compares himself to Schiller's Franz Moor, "entreating Daniel to laugh him to scorn". Its protagonist composes a poem in which a "black hand" repeatedly plucks out joys from the life shared by he and his fiancée; that occurs after this story's narrator describes how he'd considered opening it with its protagonist telling a "weather-glass peddler" to "go to the devil" rather than using three letters. Its protagonist kills himself after seeing his fiancée  Clara's eyes burst into flame through his telescope, and he'd earlier used thattelescope to look into Professor Spalanzani's house, where he saw and fell in love with Olimpia, who is eventually revealed to be an automaton. For 10 points, identify this short story in which Coppola is revealed to be the malevolent Coppelius, who Nathanael believed to be the titular fairy-tale figure, a work from Nachtstücke by E.T.A. Hoffmann.;;(The) Sandman|(Der) Sandmann
Literature;;This author wrote a play about a customs inspector whose heart falls into his pants and who meets Jack Pudding after being jailed arbitrarily, entitled How Mr. Mockinpott Was Cured of His Sufferings. He used Auschwitz trial transcripts as the basis for his oratorio The Investigation and wrote a play about the Angolan uprising called Song of the Lusitanian Bogey. The stage directions for his major play state that most of the characters are to hop about, turn in circles,  mutter, and scream at irregular intervals, as one of the major characters delivers a monologue while being whipped and the use of a chopped-off  head as a soccer ball offends Coulmier. In that play by this author of the thousand-page novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, fifteen years of history are summed up in song right as Charlotte Corday prepares to assassinate the protagonist of the play within the play. For 10 points, name this author of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.;;(Peter) Weiss
Literature;;A garden in this work is full of broken greenhouses because of "some legal trouble" over the rightful heir to the property. One character in this work knows that it is more likely to find fireworks in a pillowcase than to see Cousin Henry and Julia. That character yells that a key is hidden under a plantain leaf and realizes that she has successfully hidden a rope, just after finding "a long, straight, even smooch" near the mopboard. The fact that the bed is  nailed down and the windows are barred suggests that this story actually takes place in an insane asylum, where the central character is attended by Jennie and was sent on the advice of Weir Mitchell. The protagonist is forced to stop writing and eventually sees figures creeping about in the title entity of, for 10 points, what short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?;;(The) Yellow Wallpaper
Literature;;At one point in this play, a character asks if someone else feels sin falling out of her ears "like stored-up wax" and proposes dressing up like a clown to communicate when he is joking. Unseen characters in this play include Madeline, who is compared to Ulysses sitting on the top deck of a bus, and Webster, described as "the only one who speaks your language" and "sort of a female Emily Bronte" to a woman who is ironing pants. The central character complains about the detectives who were hired to dig up dirt on him and reveals that his wife's indifference at the death of his best friend's mother was the source of the  rift between them, as his wife describes understanding loss through a miscarriage. Following a visit from Colonel Redfern, the protagonist of this play attacks Cliff and takes up with the actress Helena. For 10 points, name this play about the marriage of Alison and Jimmy Porter, the prototypical "Angry Young Man" drama written by John Osborne.;;Look Back in Anger
Literature;;One of this man's short plays sees Mrs. A and Mrs. B talk about a woman who used to come with the meat on Wednesdays, while another sees a man and woman debate whether they had met on a bridge by a river or at a party. This man, who performed the Royal Court Theater's 2006 revival of Krapp's Last Tape, also wrote a play in which Rebecca repeatedly asks Devlin to "put your hand around my throat," Ashes to Ashes, and another which traces Jerry and Emma's affair behind Robert's back in  reverse from the seventies into the sixties. One of this man's characters is constantly seeking a new pair of shoes and eventually causes tension between brothers Mick and Aston, while another sees Lenny convince Ruth to leave his brother Teddy to become a prostitute after Teddy returns to his father's East End flat. Creator of a namesake "pause," name, for 10 points, this author of Betrayal, The Caretaker, and The Homecoming.;;(Harold) Pinter
Literature;;This author introduced the principle that if you can tell the color of a woman's hair, she's not wearing a chic enough hat, in her story "The Salesman".  In one of her novels, Alain leaves Camille after the she pushes his cat Saha off a balcony.  A sequel by her sees its title character commit suicide in front of his old photos after The Pal leaves town; the preceding novel began with its protagonists fighting over a pearl necklace before seeing 18-year-old  Edmée marries Fred Peloux, infuriating Léa.  The matriarch of her most famous book proclaims "We never marry in our family," although her granddaughter eventually marries the cultured Gaston.  For 10 points, name this author who chronicled the Parisian demi-monde in the Claudine novels, as well as in Chéri and Gigi.;;(Sidonie-Gabrielle) Colette
Literature;;Sophy Ellis tells Mrs. Ashcroft about a spirit named Token that can transfer Harry Mockler's leg wound to her in this author's story "The Wish House". Georgie and Miriam find that they share a common fantasy life in his "The Brushwood Boy". The first four stanzas of one of his poems each end "Lest we forget, lest we forget," and he described a group that will "want their beer today" after supervising the execution of a murderer from the regiment in another poem. An experience aboard Disko Troop's fishing vessel, the We're Here, turns  Harvey Cheyne into a man in his novel Captains Courageous. This author of the poems "Recessional" and "Danny Deever" also described a teenager's apprenticeship to a Tibetan lama and Dravot and Carnahan's adventure in Kaffiristan in Kim and The Man Who Would Be King. For 10 points, name this author of "If" and a poem about "new-caught, sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child," "The White Man's Burden".;;(Rudyard) Kipling
Literature;;Unlike many of those in his profession, Rafo Konforti is honest and moral with his dealings with the protagonist of this story, whose mother and father are foils because of their differences in assertiveness.  Near the end of the story, a mailman finds the body of the protagonist who had a heart attack after she mistook the shadow of a coat rack for a robber.  In another important scene, the protagonist reluctantly decides to give an attractive man money to open a Ford dealership because he reminds her of her uncle Vladimir.  Her  stinginess with regards to money began when her father Obren left her a sizable legacy, telling her to save up and trust nobody.  This trait was reaffirmed when the aforementioned character never paid back the money she loaned him.  Miss Raika Radakovic is nicknamed "Shylock in a Skirt" because she doesn't give to charity, is overly thrifty, and lends money at high interest rates during WWI in, for 10 points, what last of the Bosnian Trilogy, a novel by Ivo Andric?;;(The) Woman From Sarajevo|Gospodica
Literature;;This writer's early works include television adaptations of "The Turn of the Screw" and "Barn Burning" and the Peter Sargeant novels, which include Death in the Fifth Position, Death Before Bedtime, and Death Likes It Hot. This man's father was considering proposing to Amelia Earhart when she disappeared, and this man once was the target of the threat "stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered" during a televised exchange with  William F. Buckley. His exchange of letters with Timothy McVeigh was published as an appendix to Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. A student at St. Albans School finds that mannequins of former Presidents come to life and participate in policy deliberations in his novel The Smithsonian Institution, and the poor sanitary conditions in the White House form the backdrop of his historical novel Lincoln. The title character of another of his novels competes with Buck Loner for ownership of an acting school and sodomizes Rusty Godowsky before revealing that she is actually her purportedly late husband in disguise. For 10 points, name this author of Myra Breckinridge and longtime feuder with Truman Capote.;;(Eugene) (Luther) (Gore) Vidal|(Edgar) Box
Literature;;The title figure of one poem by this man refers to the reader as a "breather of unbreathable sword-sharp air" and as an "Amazing monster!" that made that figure's race "forever stare". In the second canto of another of his poems, he describes a figure as "the very poetry of nature" as that figure, Paolo Malatesta, arrives at Francesca's wedding. In addition to "A Fish Answers" and The Story of  Rimini, this author published the Liberal with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, founded the Examiner, and wrote Solomon's Ring. A poem by this man asks "Time, you thief" to "Say that health and wealth have missed me" as long as the title action is mentioned, while another of his poems describes "An angel writing in a book of gold" and wishes that the title figure's tribe may increase. For 10 points, identify this British author of "Jenny Kiss'd Me" and "Abou ben Adhem".;;(Leigh) Hunt|(James) (Henry) (Leigh) Hunt
Literature;;Elli Stecopolous and Karl Uitti discuss the role of this work in reconstructing myths that they view the author as seeing as corrupted. One character in this work advises its narrator to cast aside the "hods of earth" that prevent the easy digging of a trench. Another character in this work notes that aging makes some people unable to partake of the joys of the flesh and therefore bitter and hateful. This work begins while its narrator is reading The Lamentations of Mathéolus, which slanders  women's character, and the guides that speak with the narrator are Reason, Justice, and Rectitude. For ten points, identify this response to The Romance of the Rose, a work about the construction of a place ruled by the Virgin Mary and populated by notable women from history, written by Chrsitine di Pizan.;;(The) Book of the City of Ladies (also) (Le) Livre de la cité des dames
Literature;;Adrienne Rich opines that this poem's topic is "that you cannot live without the daemon once it has possessed you" in "Vesuvius at Home,"  referring to the "Vesuvian eruption" mentioned in this poem. This poem compares a certain head to "the eider-duck's deep pillow" and observes that "the mountains straight reply" every time the narrator speaks. Concluding that "I have but the  power to kill, without the power to die," it discusses roaming "in sovereign woods" and hunting the doe, after being carried away from the corners by a figure referred to once as "the owner" and once as "my master". For 10 points, name this poem which casts the narrator as the metaphorical voice of a tool being used for hunting, written by Emily Dickinson.;;My Life had stood(-)a Loaded Gun|(Poem) 754
Literature;;This man translated "Tell Me Where Fancy is Bred" and "Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees" twice each in his "Songs From Shakespeare in Latin and Greek"; Shakespeare also heavily influenced his incomplete dramatic verse works about the love of Giulia and Floris and about Pontius Pilate.  Another poem by him addresses "The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down," and another attempts to show "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire".  Though not Percy Shelley, he describes "Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house" and  "crisps of curl off wild winch whirl" in two poems about skylarks, while two other bird-themed poems describe how "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame" and "daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon". For 10 points, name this author of "Pied Beauty" and "The Windhover".;;(Gerard) (Manley) Hopkins
Literature;;One of this man's plays centers on a magical object that begins working when exposed to sunlight and includes a messenger who concocts a tale about the death of Iphitus and slavery to Queen Omphale to explain his master's long absence. That play ends on Mount Oeta, where Hyllus is ordered to marry Iole. This author was deified as Dexion after death; in life, he had served as a priest of Alon, introduced the worship of Asclepius, and been elected general during the Samian War. Ignoring the warnings of Chrysothemis, another of his title characters conspires with the Paedagogus and her brother to  avenge her father's murder. Teucer demands the proper burial of his brother, who had killed many sheep, in another play by this author of The Women of Trachis and Elektra, Ajax. His other works depict the suicides of Haemon and Eurydice, and a man who is raised by Polybus using gold brooches to put out his eyes. For 10 points, name this author of Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus.;;Sophocles
Literature;;This character reminisces about playing in a field with the Dunns and the Waters and of a crippled boy who used to warn her of her father's arrival. This character is called "Poppens" by her lover, and watches The Bohemian Girl with that lover an unfamiliar part of a theater. This character remarks that the step she plans on taking would please Miss Gavan, who is her boss at "the  Stores". She is unaware of the name of a priest whose fading photograph is found above a broken harmonium. This character's father is annoyed when he hears an Italian man playing an organ as her mother lies on the death-bed, and hears her chant "Derevaun Seraun". This title character plans to run away with her lover Frank to Buenos Aires as she is tired of her life with her alcoholic father. For 10 points, identify this woman who is unable to leave her life in Dublin, created by James Joyce in Dubliners.;;Eveline
Literature;;A man in this novel is shown a sketch of an ocean liner full of gold shortly after hearing from Collis about a woman who pulled down the shades on a Pullman car and seeing Maria Wallis shoot an Englishman. After one character in this novel is robbed of a thousand francs, his mistaken identification of the perpetrator leads to Jules Peterson being murdered in a hotel. One character in this novel is introduced while recuperating from an illness contracted in a Venetian canal and enjoying the success of her role in Daddy's Girl. After seeing a woman raving in a bathroom, Mr. McKisco fights a nonfatal duel with  Tommy Barban. The central couple met during treatment for the effects of an incestuous relationship in Zurich, and endured through a mental breakdown on a Ferris wheel. After a fight with the Fascist police and being fired from the clinic for drinking, the former lover of Rosemary Hoyt ends his marriage to Nicole Warren. For 10 points, name this novel about psychiatrist Dick Diver, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.;;Tender Is the Night
Literature;;One figure in this play laments that she will have to stop attending church soon, because she is going blind and cannot bear the thought of being jostled by children in the street. Another character in this play is shocked to see red and green flowers on a fan and throws the object to the ground. "Not even the wind" is permitted to enter the title place, and the only activity permitted there is the weaving of bedsheets. A debate occurs in this play after dogs drag the corpse of an infant to Librada's doorstep, with the title character arguing that Librada should be killed. Later, one figure puts on a crown of thorns and another comments "a woman can't aim" after failing to shoot the  fiancée of Angustías. Poncia keeps the family away from the room where Adela has committed suicide over longing for Pepe el Romano in, for 10 points, what play about a woman whose perpetual mourning casts a pallor over her daughters, by Federico Garcia Lorca?;;(The) House of Bernarda Alba|(La) Casa de Bernarda Alba
Literature;;This author wrote short stories in which a dying falcon falls into a snake's burrow and an old woman claims that light blue sparks on the steppe are produced by the heart of Danko. In another work of this writer, a woman is hit on the head with a copy of Fatal Love and another has boiling water poured on her feet. Ilya has an affair with the mayor's widow Uliana and Vyalov offers philosophy as the answer to every question in this author's novel about a linen  factory. Smolin and Ezhoff hang out with one of this author's title characters, who is disappointed to find out that his father is not a pirate but an owner of river barges. This author also created a factory food-seller who slipped revolutionary literature into lunches and a group of pretzel makers who are shocked to see Tanya seduced. For 10 points, name this author of The Artamanov Business and Foma Gordeyev who wrote "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" and a play about Vaska, The Actor, and others who rent from Kostilyoff such as Luka, The Lower Depths.;;(Maxim) Gorky|(Aleksey) (Maksimovich) Peshkov
Literature;;One of this man's poems mentions "in robe of mist, the oak" which "glared with a thousand gloomy eyes" and ends exclaiming "And, Gods, to love--what ecstasy!" This author of "Welcome and Farewell" entreats "tell no one but the wise... What is alive I want to praise, /What longs for death by fire" in his "Blessed Longing", which appears alongside "Reunion" from the "Book of Suleika" in a collection inspired by the poems of  Hafiz. Another collection features the creation of the goddess Opportunity and a love affair with Faustine, a stand in for Christiane Vulpius, while one of his poems remarks "The birds in the forest stopped talking" and that "Soon, done with walking,/you shall rest, too". Besides West-Eastern Divan, Roman Elegies, and the second of his "Wanderer's Nightsongs" he wrote a ballad in which a boy sings "My father, my father, can't you see there" and opens "Who rides, so late, through night and wind"? For 10 points, name this author of "Prometheus", "The Elf-King", and verse dramas like Faust, Part II.;;(Johann) (Wolfgang) (von) Goethe
Literature;;Geraldine Murphy recently edited together an unfinished novel by this man, a sequel to a work about Arthur and Nancy Croom's struggle with communism. One of his nonfiction works notes the irrational tension between Jane Austen's admirers and detractors and also claims that when he reads The Wasteland, the poem reads him and finds him dull. Another notes the historical differences between two words loosely meaning "to stay true to oneself," while his most famous volume critiques the Kinsey Report's contrast of "natural" and "normal," favors  Henry James over Theodore Dreiser, and wonders if its title entity is viable given the conservatism of most major modernists. For 10 points, name this New York Intellectual and author of Beyond Culture, Sincerity and Authenticity, and The Liberal Imagination.;;(Lionel) Trilling
Literature;;One work by this author describes "strangers" who "arrive like sleepy gods" and "dismount at nightfall at desolate inns". In addition to such poems as "Acropolis", he wrote a novel that ends shortly after the death of the businessman Rumanades which sees the Quietist Marlowe travel to the fictional island of Marvodaphne and encounter some characters from his first novel, including Clifton Walsh. This author of Panic Spring and Pied Piper of Lovers wrote about Felix Charlock in Tunc and Nunquam, which make up his The  Revolt of Aphrodite, while Lawrence Lucifer lives out the "English death" in his The Black Book. His autobiographical travel writing includes Bitter Lemons, Prospero's Cell, and Reflections on a Marine Venus, though he's more famous for a work which sees the deaths of Capodistria and Percy Pursewarden and is partially narrated by its protagonist, L.G. Darley. For 10 points, identify this British author whose novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea make up his Alexandria Quartet.;;(Lawrence) (George) Durrell
Literature;;The main character in this novel stands in the driveway and "burns Milton's Universe" shortly after helping to evict a bird from the upstairs bedroom along with the maid Missouri. The title character of this novel finds a cache of letters about West Virginia that give insight into her mother. The central event of this novel is sparked when a woman throws herself onto her husband and screams "I tell you enough is enough! This is my birthday!" demanding to participate in the New Orleans Carnival outside. A man in this novel tells  Dr. Courtland that he survived the death of his first wife Becky and thus can survive surgery for a torn retina , but Major Bullock ultimately has to arrange the funeral of that man, who makes a widow of his uncouth Texan wife Fay. The title character leaves her fabric-designing business to return to Mount Salus, Mississippi, where she attends the funeral of Judge Clinton McKelva. For 10 points, name this novel about Laurel Hand, by Eudora Welty.;;(The) Optimist's Daughter
Literature;;At a party in this novel, Karmazinov discusses scandalous episodes from his youth and Liputin reads a poem satirizing the government. A character in this novel marries a slow-witted crippled girl on a bet and becomes a military officer but resigns his commission and bites the ear of a governor; that governor is replaced by von Lembke, who is under the thrall of his wife Yulia. The main character flees to Berlin for four months after failing to start a literary journal in this novel; later, the Lebyadkins are found  murdered by Fedka and Lizaveta is beaten to death, with one crime being blamed on Kirillov. An affair with the servant Dasha is exposed, the secretary Blum leads a raid in search of radical manifestos, and Shatov is killed by Pyotr, leading to Nikolay hanging himself at the end of this book. For 10 points, name this novel in which the Verhovensky and Stavrogin families become entangled in nihilist revolution, a work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.;;(The) Possessed|Besy||(The) Devils
Literature;;A woman in this novel, who reports on the arbitrary murder of a coal salesman, repeatedly tries to sell her pig to raise money for travel. Following a riot over the renaming of an airport, the protagonist of this novel is told "you saved my life" after waking her mother from a nightmare. While eating at a konbit, an aunt reveals that she has received a plane ticket in the mail, which is why she did not accept a Mother's Day card at the start of this novel.  This novel ends with a woman punching sugarcane after her mother commits suicide by stabbing her abdomen repeatedly, convinced that her fetus was speaking to her in the voice of the masked man who  raped her decades before. The protagonist of this novel uses a spice pestle to foil her mother's virginity inspections and then elopes with Joseph, conceiving Brigitte shortly thereafter. For 10 points, name this novel about Atie and Martine's relationship with the Haitian exile Sophie Caco, written by Edwidge Danticat.;;Breath, Eyes, Memory
Literature;;This writer penned an updated version of the story of Noah's Ark in one work, while Frank Elgin and Charlie Castle are two entertainer protagonists of two of his later works. Bessie excessively worries about the reputation of the Berger household in this author's second work, while Miller is haunted by the vision of three family members dying in World War One in his first work. In addition to The Flowering Peach, The Country Girl, and The Big Knife, he wrote a play that begins with the protagonist seizing the opportunity to face a character named "the Baltimore Chocolate Drop". Besides writing  Awake and Sing!, this playwright wrote a work in which Joe Bonaparte breaks his hand, solidifying his transition from playing the violin to boxing and a work in which the titular character, Costello, never appears onstage with the New York City taxi cab drivers. The most successful of the Group Theatre playwrights, for 10 points, name this American who wrote Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty.;;(Clifford) Odets
Literature;;This novel's protagonist is given a small amber cross by her brother along with two chains, one from her suitor and one from a cousin, and one character in this work claims Shakespeare  "is a part of an Englishman's constitution" after giving a captivating reading of Henry VIII. The protagonist visits her home in Portsmouth, where she meets her sister Susan, while her brother William is promoted thanks to the machinations of a suitor who shames the Grants into leaving as well as prompting  Rushworth to divorce his wife when he runs off with Maria. The owner of the title location returns from managing his slaves in Antigua, and raised his niece at the urging of Mrs. Norris, and that niece rejects Henry Crawford and marries Edmund Bertram. For 10 points, name this novel about Fanny Price, a work of Jane Austen.;;Mansfield Park
Literature;;In one of this author's novels, Mariquilla throws money in the face of Don Jose after Candiola is knocked to the ground during a search for wheat. Policarpes, Aristides, and Fausto, members of the depraved Babel family, stab one of this author's title characters to death. Don Inocencio accuses Pepe Rey of being a heretic in another of his novels. Three of this author's works were adapted into the films Nazarín, Tristana, and Viridiana by Luis Buñuel. His aforementoned novels, Saragossa, Ángel Guerra, and Doña Perfecta are not part of his  forty-six novel series modeled on Balzac, the Episodios nacionales. For 10 points, name this author who described the two lovers of Juanito Santa Cruz in Fortunata and Jacinta, one of his many works about life in nineteenth-century Spain.;;(Benito) Perez Galdos
Literature;;When hooligans burn down an ostrich farm, injuring the elderly Ouma, Kristien must return from exile in this author's Imaginings of Sand. A filmmaker researches the Black Death in France in his The Wall of the Plague. This man's declaration that "an artist must be a spiritual saboteur" led to the banning of his journal Sixty-ite. He wrote a novel in which Gordon dies in police  custody after investigating the similar fate of his son, leading Ben to become a political crusader. A major novel of this author has no narrator or third-person voice and is composed solely of interlocking monologues by twenty characters. In that novel, after a dispute over the affections of Pamela, Galant kills Nicolaas and Ma Rose observess the rebellion against the van der Merwes. For 10 points, name this author of A Chain of Voices and A Dry White Season, who railed against Apartheid as a pre-eminent writer in Afrikaans.;;(Andre) Brink;;Imaginings of Sand
Literature;;A footnote in this book reveals the author's uncertainty about the seventy-five percent figure given for the number of brothels that were closed. Late in this work, the narrator is distraught at the rise of the tipping of service workers, which a hotel manager had lectured the narrator for doing at the start of this work. "Firewood, food, tobacco, candles and the enemy" are identified as the five important things in trench warfare in this book, which sees the author wonder if it might be luckier not to get shot at all after he is told how fortunate he is for surviving a sniper wound to the neck. Fighting alongside Bob Smillie and Georges Kopp, the narrator joins the POUM rather than the  International Brigades and flees the war following the outlawing of the socialist militias by the Communist-dominated government. Concluding that the socialist regime would have endured if not for Stalin's unease at a competing leftist movement, for 10 points, name this memoir of six months of volunteering in the Spanish Civil War, written by George Orwell.;;Homage to Catalonia
Literature;;This work quotes Walter Benjamin quoting Marx to compare Baudelaire's politics to those who wish for the overthrow of existing government, launching a discussion of how vertreten and darstellen recall the debate over "representation or rhetoric as tropology and as persuasion.' It criticizes one philosopher's "parasubjective matrix, cross-hatched with heterogeneity" and posits the "leftover subject-effect" in criticizing another philosopher's definition of 'desire.' This work cites Derrida's work on European prejudices from  Of Grammatology, which this work's author had translated into English, and its fourth section analyzes British colonial policies towards sati. Beginning with a criticism of Foucault and Deleuze, this work's second section discusses Antonio Gramsci's use of the title concept.  Answering the title question in the negative, for 10 points, name this work of postcolonial theory which analyzes the West as Subject, an essay by Gayatri Spivak.;;Can the Subaltern Speak
Literature;;This author complained of a lack of realism regarding peasants in the writings of Wilhelm Riehl, and also of the condescending praise offered to mediocre female writers, in "The Natural History of German Life" and "Silly Novels By Lady Novelists". In an early short work, Charles Meunier performs a blood transfusion on a maid to reveal the treachery of Bertha Grant, whose mind cannot be read by Latimer, while another begins with the Angel of Dawn crossing over Europe before seeing Baldassare Calvo sold into slavery and the young girl Tessa becoming the kept woman of  Tito Melema, husband to the title Florentine. In her most famous novel, the father-in-law Caleb Garth and the parson Camden Farebrother stand by, respectively, the indebted college boy Fred Vincy and overly-ambitious doctor Tertius Lydgate during the turmoil embroiling their title rural town. For 10 points, name this author of The Lifted Veil, Romola, and Middlemarch.;;(George) Eliot|(Mary) (Ann) Evans
Literature;;The fifth section of this work explains that while there are a limited number of notes, colors, and flavors, their changes can never be completely heard, seen, or tasted, and notes that the "unorthodox and orthodox mutually produce each other" in an "endless cycle". Chapter four admonishes that "lifting an autumn hare cannot be considered great strength", while the end of the eleventh chapter advises the reader to "be like a virgin at home" at first but to "be like a fleeing rabbit" when the door is opened. The reader is advised to avoid  "Heaven's Well, Heaven's Jail, Heaven's Net, Heaven's Pit, and Heaven's Fissure" and the ninth chapter includes "dispersive", "contentious", and "entrapping" among the "Nine Terrains". This work often emphasizes the numbers nine and five, the latter given as the number of types of spies and methods of attacking with fire. A famous annotated edition of this work was produced by Cao Cao. For 10 points, identify this work which describes the "true pinnacle of excellence" as "subjugating the enemy…without fighting", a tactical treatise written by Sun-Tzu.;;(The) Art of War|(Sun) (Zi) Bing Fa
Literature;;In one of this man's stories, the actress Klara kills herself onstage after being rebuffed by the misanthropic Yakov, while Alexander Ridel's pranking of his friend Tyeglev has unexpected results in his "Knock, Knock, Knock". In a novella, a landowner duels Baron von Donhof and then goes to work in a pastry shop to be with Fraulein Gemma, while another sees the dying  Chulkaturin recount his childhood passion for Liza. His most famous collection includes a story about a group of peasants in the woods discussing the role of water sprites in Arulina's insanity and Vasya's drowning, and one about the maid Arina being forbidden to marry by Lady Zverkov, "Bezhin Lea" and "Yermolay and the Miller's Wife," both of which are narrated by a leisurely hunter. For 10 points, name this author of Torrents of Spring, Diary of a Superfluous Man, and A Sportsman's Sketches.;;(Ivan) Turgenev
Literature;;Porter Horace wrote a notable study of this novel which examines its relationship with Henry James' fiction. The protagonist of this novel has a recurring nightmare about his mother's death which he view as a sexual encounter, and he reacts to a later experience by "With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes". Another scene in this novel occurs when the protagonist goes with a friend to eat oysters and wine at Les Halles. He goes there with Jacques, who later helps him when he has financial difficulties. The protagonist of this novel proposes to a woman named Hella, although he had earlier had a sexual experience with a  boy named Joey whom he treats cruelly, while the title character of this novel strangles Gillaume and is sentenced to death. For ten points, name this novel about an American named David living in Paris who has a tragic love affair with the title Italian bar worker in his apartment, a work by James Baldwin.;;Giovanni's Room
Literature;;He pleaded with the pickax-wielding addressee to "leave our names alone" in "Letter to an Archaeologist", while the title poem of one of his collections talks about the "globe's pate free of bio" and ends with an "expanse" which "grows blue like lace underwear".   He called American poetry a "a relentless non-stop sermon on human autonomy" and called for cheap mass-printing of the classics and bookstores next to assembly lines in "An Immodest Proposal".  A series of autobiographical and literary essays discuss how he left school forever at 15, and hated drab  Soviet architecture.  This author of Less Than One was also notably tried in 1964 for "social parasitism" and spent a year in Siberia.  Mentored by Anna Akhmatova, for 10 points name this author of A Halt in the Wasteland and To Urania, a Soviet Jew who was forced to emigrate to America in 1972 and claimed the title figure was "sunk in sleep" in  "Elegy for John Donne".;;(Josephy) Brodsky
Literature;;The speaker of one of this author's poems remembers striding "through the summer/shoulder to shoulder with the mulberry tree"; that poem was among those by this man discussed in Hans-Georg Gadamer's essay "Who Am I and Who Are You"? In one poem, this author wrote that "there are/still songs to sing beyond/humankind", while another poem he penned opens by claiming that "No one kneads us again out of earth and clay". He also described writing in a guestbook in a poem written after visiting Heidegger's retreat in the title town. The most famous work by this author of "Threadsuns", "Psalm", and  "Todtnauberg" describes how "we shovel a grave in the air" and repeatedly mentions the "golden hair" of Margareta and the "ashen hair" of Shulamith. That poem notes that "death is a master from Deutschland" and contains a refrain about the drinking of the "black milk of daybreak". For 10 points, identify this man who committed suicide in 1970, the Romanian-German author of "Todesfuge" or "Deathfugue".;;(Paul) Celan|(Paul) Antschel
Literature;;Characters in this work include Henri, compared to a predatory wasp for his talent in manipulating Doctor Citron and Doctor Weiss, as well as a para-human, "naturally innocent" thief, Elias. The narrator fails to remember the line after "Before Aeneas ever named it so" when he tries to teach his colleague Jean a passage from Dante's Inferno. Early in this work, the narrator is reprimanded for unauthorized possession of an  icicle. Near its end, the narrator joins two Frenchmen with scarlet fever in the infirmary, an episode recorded in "The Story of Ten Days," the final chapter of this work whose other chapters include "The Drowned and the Saved" and "Chemical Examination". For 10 points, name this masterpiece of Primo Levi, a memoir of his year in an infamous concentration camp.;;If This Is A Man Se questo e un uomo|Survival in Auschwitz
Literature;;This man wrote a one-act comedy in which the stage lights go off to represent normal lighting and are only turned on during the blackout at Brindsley Miller's house, Black Comedy, though he would not write another comedy until one about the Eyesore Negation Detachment's pact to blow up ugly modern buildings, Lettice and Lovage. Though not Archibald MacLeish, he gained notoriety with a verse work in which the Old and Young Martin navigate the moral questions surrounding Pizarro's conquest of the   Incas, The Royal Hunt of the Sun. He also wrote a drama in which Jill Mason's sexual come-on causes violent psychological conflict among a teenager's animistic religious beliefs, as well as one in which a suicidal man in a sanatorium rejects God for having given compositional skill to a vulgar child, claiming to have poisoned the latter while transcribing his Requiem. For 10 points, name this author of Equus and Amadeus.;;(Peter) Shaffer
Literature;;One character in this poem warns the hero that he might be chased by "dwarfish Hildebrand" and "old Lord Maurice," while another is described as being "clasped like a missal.../As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again". Its hero sets out a table with "cloth of woven crimson, gold and jet" and "candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd" before playing a Chartrier air on the lute for his beloved, to whom he reveals "an elfin-storm from faery land" as their destination. With the  old maid Angela's help, this poem's hero spirits her past the Porter, bloodhound, and Beadsman out of the Baron's castle while everyone celebrates the festival. For 10 points, name this poem in Spenserian stanzas about Porphyro and Madeleine's escape during a night of virgin rituals, by John Keats.;;(The) Eve of St. Agnes
Literature;;Among the repeated phrases in this work are "We buy groceries on Tuesday" and "Kremlin means citadel". After its central event takes place, a supporting character calls into Dr. Weird Beard's radio show and inquires into who put up an "Impeach Earl Warren" billboard. While the protagonist of this novel is in Russia, he attempts to get permission to talk to Francis Gary Powers, and he later leaves that country with his wife,  Marina. Historical figures appearing in this work include Guy Banister, while Nicholas Branch appears as a contemporary character compiling a secret history of the central event of this novel. Published directly before Mao II, the central event of this novel is thrown into motion following the failed Bay of Pigs landing. For 10 points, name this novel by Don DeLillo featuring characters like Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald.;;Libra
Literature;;This poem's speaker refers to its title entity as "that quiet clay" which "seemed to heavy and heavier grow," noting "I'd often sing to that hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin"; he does this because "a promise made is a debt unpaid". Its speaker wonders why his companion left his Plumtree, Tennessee home, given the extreme feelings that prompt him to request its title action, finally undertaken on the derelict Alice May that sits "on the  marge of Lake Labarge". Beginning "There are strange things done in the midnight sun/ By the men who moil for gold," this poem's speaker reveals that the strangest he ever saw was how its title act comfortably revived the title character from death, rather than incinerating him. For 10 points, name this poem about the burning of a frozen trail man by Robert Service.;;(The) Cremation of Sam McGee
Literature;;In one story in this collection, Mr. Jerger celebrates the birthday of Ponce de Leon while Rufus returns from the military and his sister Ruby realizes she's pregnant; another sees the 104-year-old General Sash reminisce about the Civil War during his granddaughter's graduation. In its closing novella, Mrs. McIntyre vacillates between wanting to keep either Mr. Shortley or Mr. Guizac on her farm, which contains an omnipresent  peacock. It also features a story where Mr. Shiflet is cajoled into marrying Lucynell, only to dump her at a roadside diner, and a title story where a grandmother's erroneous memory of a mansion during a road trip gets her family murdered. For 10 points, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Good Country People" are part of what collection featuring a story about the Misfit by Flannery O'Connor?;;(A) Good Man is Hard to Find
Literature;;During a soliloquy, one character in this play claims that "I fear I shall begin to grow in love/With my dear self" and that he "could skip/ Out of my skin now, like a subtle snake". A female character discusses the obscene poetry of Aretine, oblivious to the title character quoting Sophocles on the subject of women being quiet. That woman's husband proposes ideas like outlawing pocket size tinderboxes, buying red herrings from a cheese vendor, and a plague test involving cut onions before claiming he could sell Venice to the Turks. That claim gets him tricked when some merchants jump up and down on him while he hides in a  tortoise shell, and besides characters like Peregrine and the Would-Be couple, the title character disguises himself as Scoto the Mountebank and meets the servants Nano, Androgyno and Castrone playing outside, tipping him to the fact his former "parasite" may be tricking him after he is announced as heir to a fortune variously desired by Corbaccio, Corvino, and Voltore.;;Volpone (SJ)
Literature;;One of this author's characters convalesces at Nutwood Manor, the home of Lord and Lady Asterisk. One of his poems ends with a figure's useless struggle against "the flapping veils of smothering gloom," while in another the narrator fantasizes about killing the Yellow-Pressmen. This author appealed to "Brother Lead and Sister Steel" in one poem from his first collection, The Old Huntsman. His alter ego,  George Sherston, is the central character of the trilogy that began with Memoirs of A Fox-Hunting Man. Paul Fussell wrote about the "binary vision" evident in the recollection of his service in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and he used the name "David Cromlech" to fictionalize his colleague Robert Graves. His most famous poem describes a "yawning soldier" who "wondered when the Allemands would get busy" and later "sank and drowned/bleeding to death". For 10 points, name this author of "Suicide in the Trenches" and a collection titled for that aforementioned poem, "Counter-attack".;;(Siegfried) Sassoon
Literature;;One poet of this school wrote that "I want the crystalline strophe duplicated with the skill of a goldsmith" in his "Profissao de fe". A Polish member of this literary movement wrote the science fiction collection In the Fourth Dimension and the novel Miranda. Besides Olavo Bilac and Antoni Lange, a Cuban born member of this school wrote Le Reliquaire and was known as "the poet of the humble", while its first publication was collected by Catulle Mendès and Louis-Xavier de Ricard and produced by Alphonse Lemerre. Another member wrote Poèmes barbares and Le Chemin de la croix, and its philosophy was put into place in Enamels and Cameos. Influenced by the beginning of  Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin and headed by Charles Leconte de Lisle, it was a reaction against Romanticism and was influenced by the theory "art for art's sake". Advocates of poetic objectivity, purity, perfection, and restraint, for 10 points, name this group of French poets that gave rise to the Symbolists and that take its name from the mountainous home of the Muses.;;(the) Parnassian(s)|(the) Parnassus (school)|Parnassianism;;Symbolists
Literature;;In The Birthmark, Susan Howe claims this individual's "apprehension of nature is an endless ambiguous enclosure". At the end of the work in which she appears, she is taken to the home of slave-dealer James Whitcomb after marking out five strange incidents of Providence, one of which involves burned corn. Figures she encounters include a kind mistress for whose child she embroiders a blanket as well as a cruel soldier who claims to have roasted and eaten her husband. The work featuring her begins with the  burning of her Lancaster home, is divided into twenty-one "removes," and was originally entitled The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, featuring an introduction by Increase Mather. For 10 points, name this woman abducted during King Phillip's War, who wrote the most popular captivity narrative.;;(Mary) Rowlandson
Literature;;One character in this play asserts that Elizabeth Taylor was the only woman pretty enough not to wear makeup, and that she wore a ton anyway, while another makes his name with the poetry collection Meadowlark but writes nothing else. One of its characters doesn't date old flame Sheriff Deon Gilbeau after an onset of "The Plains," which are like "the blues". Later, Karen's fiancé smokes pot with, and molests, the teenaged Jean, the aunt of whom, Ivy, elopes with Little Charles to New York even after she discovers he's her half-brother. These events are set off by the suicide of patriarch Beverly Weston, whose daughters come home to control the  pill addiction of wife Violet. For 10 points, name this 2007 play by Tracy Letts about a summer month in a region of Oklahoma.;;August, Osage County
Literature;;Another work featuring him as a character sees him describe Melibee's spousal abuse after his story of how Sir Oliphant terrorizes Sir Thopas was interrupted by Harry Bailey, who prefers the ensuing tale about Chanticleer and the Fox. For 10 points, name this author of The Book of the Duchess who included stories by a Reeve and Miller in his Canterbury Tales.;;(Geoffrey) Chaucer
Literature;;This work's last section describes the costumes at a 1967 Princeton class reunion to show how its main concepts play out "Now," and it earlier quotes Goethe's "Heigre" to show how pilgrimage and return fits in its central ideas. Tracing those ideas principally to Silvestre de Sacy, this work sees them prominently in French writers, as displayed in Victor Hugo's poem "Lui," Gerard Nerval's debut collection, and those stories by Gustave Flaubert influenced by  Kuchuk Hanem. It more directly associates them with the work of Ernest Renan, Edward Lane, Richard Burton, and Bernard Lewis, whom its author claims are all unable to keep from being fundamentally "racist, imperialistic, and almost totally ethnocentric". For 10 points, name this work describing the history of European troping of the East by Edward Said.;;Orientalism
Literature;;This author published his journals as Travels in the Congo and Return to Chad after his voyages as a special envoy of the Colonial Ministry in central Africa. The Centipede spreads rumor of a false Pope in a novel exploring the unmotivated crime, while one short story by this author considers a literal interpretation of John 9:41. In that work , blindness protects Gertrude's innocence until a surgery grants her both sight and awareness of sin. In another work by this author, Boris commits suicide while Bernard steals Edouard's suitcase and Oliver is seduced by the Count de Passavant. Marceline dies of tuberculosis in a novel in which Marcel's travel to Tunisia and becomes attracted to Moktar. For 10 points, identify this writer of Lafcadio's Adventures, The Pastoral Symphony, The Counterfeiters and The Immoralist.;;(Andre) Gide
Literature;;This man is generally thought to have inspired Beverly Carlton in Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner. Wannabe playwright Roland Maule, like Daphne Stillington and Henry Lyppiat's wife Joanna, throws himself at actor Garry Essendine in one of this man's plays, while art dealer Ernest Friedman is finally chased away by the apparent climactic ménage a trois that Otto Sylvus and Leo Mecuré have with his wife Gilda in another; those two are  Present Laughter and Design for Living. A more famous play sees Madame Arcati accidentally conjure the ghost of Charles Condomine's first wife Elvira, while in another a pair of adjacent second-marriage honeymoon balconies provoke the divorced Elyot and Amanda Chase to leave their new spouses and run off with each other. For 10 points, name this British man of letters, author of Blithe Spirit and Private Lives.;;(Noel) Coward