Bonus

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar adapted this field's notion of the anxiety of influence for a landmark feminist work in it, The Madwoman in the Attic. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this field of the scholar Harold Bloom. “Close reading” may be used in this field to avoid a fallacy of making judgements based on intent.
ANSWER: literary criticism [accept literary theory or literary studies; prompt on lit crit or literature or criticism]
[10e] Similar to Bloom’s anxiety of influence, this author argued that good poets engage with the past in “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” This poet himself wrote “The Waste Land.”
ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot]
[10h] Erich Auerbach cited authors’ engagement with past works as a means to evoke this concept in a namesake magnum opus. Aristotle defines this concept as the imitation of nature in his Poetics.
ANSWER: mimesis (“my-MEE-sis”)
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EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
21014.00100%30%10%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Amherst ABrown B010010E
Claremont AUC Santa Barbara010010E
Dartmouth AWilliams B010010E
Dartmouth BBrown A010010E
Edinburgh ASheffield B010010E
George Mason AMaryland A1010020ME
Maryland CRutgers A010010E
Toronto BMcMaster A10101030MEH
Vanderbilt AChipola College010010E
Vermont BBoston College A1010020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
UK (North)UKY110.00100%0%0%
Southern CaliforniaUSY110.00100%0%0%
Eastern Canada (2)USY130.00100%100%100%
Upper Mid-AtlanticUSY215.00100%50%0%
NortheastUSY412.50100%25%0%
SoutheastUSY110.00100%0%0%