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1. The husband of Emma Bovary.

2. Set in Yonville. She has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty - wealth - passion - and high society. It is the disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life that impels her to commit adultery and a

3. The daughter of King Minos and wife of Theseus.

4. Her novels are more notable for their style and characterisation than for their plots. A superficial reading gives the impression that they are sketches of village or suburban life - and comedies of manners - studying the social activities connected

5. Valentin Voloshinov and Terry Eagleton -

6. Native American novelist and poet.

7. Mimesis

8. Heterglossia and dialogism - chronotope - exotopy - utterance and unfinalizability

9. A beautiful - aristocratic married woman whose pursuit of love and emotional honesty makes her an outcast from society. Her adulterous affair catapults her into social exile - misery - and finally suicide.

10. A wealthy and dashing military officer whose love for Anna prompts her to desert her husband and son. He accidentally destroys his beautiful racehorse Frou-Frou - a symbol of Anna.

11. His plays are generally considered untranslatable.

12. Criminal who also goes by Trompe-la-Mort - Jacques Collin - and Abbé Herrera

13. The illegitimate son of a wealthy count - who upon receiving an unexpected inheritance is suddenly burdened with responsibility and conflict. His former carefree behavior vanishes and he enters upon a philosophical quest of how one should live a mora

14. Wrote exclusively in Alexandrine. His dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight - the prevailing passion of his characters - a strong Jansensist sense of fate - and the nakedness of both the plot and stage.

15. The assumption that the physical presence of a speaker authenticates his speech. Speaking would then precede writing (the sign of a sign) - since the writer is not present at the reading of his text toauthenticate it.

16. A rich and rakish landowner who seduces Emma as one more addition to a long string of mistresses. Though occasionally charmed by Emma - he feels little true emotion towards her.

17. Subaltern - strategic essentialism

18. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen

19. Best known for his analysis of interpretive communities — an offshoot of reader-response criticism.

20. Group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective.

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