Mock 14 – Modern & Contemporary British Literature (Part 1)

Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951) and The Unnamable (1953) were written in French and issued together by John Calder in 1959. Murphy (1938) was written in English and stands apart.

The play is set in a seaside boarding house in summer: Act I a summer morning, Act II that evening, Act III the next morning.

The Greek myth of Pygmalion of Cyprus, whose statue Aphrodite brings to life, best known through Ovid's Metamorphoses X. The statue was later named Galatea.

Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a comedy of manners.

Jean Rhys (1928, 1931); Margaret Drabble (1965); Fay Weldon (1983).

Yeats (1892): the Countess sells her soul to the demon merchants to save her starving tenants.

Per the key: Dylan Thomas and the New Apocalypse reacted against Modernist impersonality, followed by the Movement.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is set in Sawston and the Italian town of Monteriano, so its contrast is English and Italian.

'When You Are Old' (1893), 'No Second Troy' (1910), 'Easter, 1916' and 'Lapis Lazuli' (1938) are all by Yeats. Each other set contains an outsider: Arnold's 'Sohrab and Rustum', 'The Home-Coming' (not a Yeats poem), and Rossetti's sonnet sequence The House of Life.

Note: The source prints 'Death of Sohrab' in option 1; Arnold's poem is 'Sohrab and Rustum'.

These four all appeared in Edward Marsh's anthologies Georgian Poetry (1912–22), which favoured plain diction and rural subjects. Each other group includes a poet outside the movement, such as Yeats, Eliot or Dylan Thomas.

The Bloomsbury Group included Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Lytton Strachey, Keynes, Roger Fry, Clive Bell and E. M. Forster. Yeats belonged to the Irish Literary Revival.

These are the opening lines of Yeats's 'A Prayer for My Daughter' (1919), written at Thoor Ballylee for his infant daughter Anne; 'Gregory's wood' is Lady Gregory's Coole estate.

Richardson (Pilgrimage, from 1915), Joyce (Ulysses) and Woolf (Mrs Dalloway) are the classic stream-of-consciousness novelists; May Sinclair first applied the term to Richardson. Greene wrote in a realist, thriller-influenced mode.

'Digging' opens Heaney's Death of a Naturalist (1966) and 'Coal' is Audre Lorde's poem and 1976 collection. The key marks Updike – 'The Swan' as the mismatch.

Note: Key accepted; the Moraes and Updike attributions could not be independently confirmed.

Catharine Amy Dawson Scott founded PEN in London in 1921 and John Galsworthy became its first president. PEN campaigns for freedom of expression and writers in danger.

The Golden Notebook (1962) follows the writer Anna Wulf and her four notebooks, and The Good Terrorist (1985) follows Alice among London radicals — so A and B are wrong. Shikasta (1979) is Earth cut off from Canopus; Alfred and Emily (2008) reimagines her parents; The Grass Is Singing (1950) is set in Southern Rhodesia.

Note: The source page gives no official key; the answer is derived from the statements.

Hellenistic philosophy (c. 323–31 BCE) sought peace of mind (ataraxia) through Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism and Scepticism. Surrealism and Expressionism are twentieth-century art movements.

Austen (c. 1816), a burlesque prompted by the Prince Regent's librarian, James Stanier Clarke, and others.

The Rainbow (1915) follows three generations of Brangwens; Women in Love (1920) continues with Ursula and Gudrun.

Maurice, written 1913–14, was published posthumously in 1971.

Husserl, the German founder of phenomenology, had no link with the Bloomsbury circle.

William James coined it in psychology (Principles of Psychology, 1890); May Sinclair used it of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage in The Egoist (April 1918).

Arms and the Man (1894) → Man and Superman (1903) → Pygmalion (1913) → Saint Joan (1923) → Too True to Be Good (1932).

Abbey Theatre, Dublin (1904, Yeats and Lady Gregory); Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd (1961); Henslowe's Hope (1614); Bernard's théâtre de l'inexprimé.