Packet N: Bonus 14
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”)
<Editors, World Literature> | Packet N
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 30% | 10% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Mason A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland C | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern California | Main | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK (North) | UK | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |